Dead Voices On Air : "The Light Of June Drowned Flowers In Your Mouth" - new vinyl LP release from Brudenia available for pre-order! Only 350 copies to be made. http://www.lensrecords.com/showproduct.a..spx?ProductID=226

The Light of June Drowned Flowers in your Mouth is the second release by Dead Voices on Air in 2009, the first being the double cd album, Fast Falls the Eventide for Chicago’s Lens Records. It is the 12th release by Mark Spybey under the Dead Voices on Air name and the first to be released on vinyl.

The album was recorded in a three-week period in June of 2009. Many of the characteristic Dead Voices on Air sounds are present; the dark clusters of processed tones, shifting rhythms, fourth world overtones, and the use of unlikely source instruments such as children’s toys. Unlike many of his releases, this is an attempt to peel some of the layers of sound away. It is only in the final track, “You Are Too Young to Fall Asleep,” that Spybey raises the anti and the volume in the shifting waves and pulses of sounds whose origins cannot easily be identified, save for the fact that (contrary to the popular opinion of reviewers) absolutely no synthesizers were used in the recording sessions.

Spybey has been reluctant to talk about what his music means to him, preferring to afford the listener the opportunity to experience this for themselves. The music is generally made in isolation from external references but for this release, key texts informed the recording sessions, notably the poetry of Pablo Neruda and that of Stephen Spender. Spender fought for the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and Neruda lived in Spain at the time and was deeply affected by the struggle against fascism. The album title was taken from a line of one of Neruda’s poems. The album is dedicated to the International Brigades and their struggle against the governments of the time whose antipathy did little to prevent the spread of fascism. Many artists lost their lives in this struggle, including Federico Garcia Lorca, who was executed by forces loyal to the dictator Franco.