Hong Kong, by CHEER-ACCIDENT

Hong Kong

by CHEER-ACCIDENT

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super limited run of this master piece of fieldrecordings and chicago improv

Includes unlimited streaming of Hong Kong via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	SoHo 00:23		buy track
2.	Robinson Road I 01:52		buy track
3.	Robinson Road II 01:36		buy track
4.	Wan Chan Street Market I 01:30		buy track
5.	Hong Kong at Night 02:13		buy track
6.	Hong Kong Night and Day 01:23		buy track
7.	Airport I 00:46		buy track
8.	Airport II 03:34		buy track
9.	Airport III 00:59		buy track
10.	Wan Chan Street Market II 00:44		buy track
11.	Wan Chan Street Market III 00:58		buy track
12.	Wan Chan Street Market IV 00:47		buy track
13.	Wan Chan Street Market V 01:36		buy track
14.	Gloucester Road Escalator 05:12 video	info	buy track
15.	Airport IV 01:37		buy track
16.	Robinson Road III 00:45		buy track
17.	Old Peak Road 06:33		buy track
18.	Lan Kwai Fong 01:05		buy track
19.	Airport V 01:07		buy track

about

"...for a highly successful marriage of field recordings and improv in which a certain time and place are frozen in amber – look no further."
-Sound Projector

"«Hong Kong» reflects a notion of being lost within the complex and quite impossible architecture and labyrinthian streets of this city, with its patchwork of symmetries, contrasts, conflicts and diminutions, alternating moods. This synaesthetic reconstruction of a foreign, intriguing city suggests a disruption of place, time and language, an elusive and unsettling sonic mirror and a road diary of an exotic location at a critical time."
- salt-peanuts

"This largely improvised music peels out of the big city hustle and bustle and disappears back into it, not without adding pointed commentary. Very beautiful music."
- trust-zine.de

"perfectly set and never overly ambitious."
- handwritten-mag.de

" “Hong Kong” reveals yet another side of the relentlessly playful and experimental Cheer-Accident."
- beachsloth

"follow the musicians on a beautiful journey of discovery."
- MusicMap, Piergiuseppe Lippolis, Jan 2022

"a synaesthetic visualization of a city's sound - as difficult to describe as it is to review - which requires multiple plays rewarded by myriad hidden details.”
- Rockerilla, Jan 2022

“Based on a series of recordings made in August 2015 on walks through various neighbourhoods and locations around Hong Kong and its surrounding environs, this record combine those sound sounds with veteran Chicago art rock unit Cheer-Accident’s fragmentary improvisational performances. Each field recording was transcribed onto a sound map which then guided the band’s improvisations so what you hear throughout Hong Kong is a sense of fluidity, symmetry and contrast = the process makes for a really convincing, layered, dynamic and complex psychogeographical exploration of a city at a critical point in its history. A true travelogue for the ears.”
- The Wire, Dec 2021

credits

released December 10, 2021

Performed by members of CHEER-ACCIDENT

Cory Bengtsen - baritone saxophone, electronics
D Bayne - piano
Jeff Libersher – electric guitar
Mike Hagedorn - tenor and soprano trombones
Ross Feller - soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones
Thymme Jones - piano

All tracks composed by CHEER-ACCIDENT and the region of Hong Kong in 2019

Recorded in 2019 by Todd A Carter at bel_Air Sound Studio

Artwork: Tony Kellers
Video: Daniel Burke for Soundoferror

© Shameless Records 2021
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This project is partially supported by an Individual Artist Program Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, a state agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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