Apostrophe Music, by Mercy Choir

Apostrophe Music

by Mercy Choir

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1.	Del Shannon 03:42	buy track
2.	Our Hearts Were Young 04:00	buy track
3.	God Apostrophe 02:17	buy track
4.	Bad Guys With Guns / Good Guys With Guns 07:29	buy track
5.	Apostrophe Guitar 03:12	buy track
6.	Apostrophe Guitar #2 02:51	buy track
7.	Rosary For The Old Friend 02:24	buy track
8.	The Last Jitney To Jakarta 02:04	buy track
9.	You Think We Have a Lazy Time 05:58	buy track

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"With scores of releases as Mercy Choir and under other collaborative guises, Paul Belbusti continues to roll into new sonic territory. Apostrophe Music, the third Mercy Choir release of 2013, adds another singular entry to his discography: a completely instrumental record.

An apostrophe is a mark of omission as much as possession, a rhetorical cry to some person or thing gone missing—a turning away, etymologically. For his part, Belbusti is taking a hard left, following up Trouble (his recent acoustic collaboration with Lys Guillorn) with this scattered, claustrophobic collection.

Apostrophe Music touches on hazy ambient music (“You Think We Have A Lazy Time,” “Bad Guys With Guns / Good Guys With Guns”), aggressive guitar manipulations (“Our Hearts Were Young,” “Apostrophe Guitar”), and disquieting mechanical mutations (“The Last Jitney to Jakarta,” “God Apostrophe”), among other digressions.

Written, composed, and recorded with an assemblage of live analog instrumentation and portable digital gizmos (iPad apps, pocket synthesizers, field recorders), Apostrophe Music is another glimpse into Belbusti’s divergent imagination: droning, minor-key insistence; bone-dry desert wailings; surreal, unspoken threats in echoing empty rooms. It’s the soundtrack to some apocalyptic film, perhaps—set in a one-bedroom apartment. It is absence, it is possession—it is, audibly, apostrophe music."

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released September 3, 2013

Written, performed, and recorded by Paul Belbusti.
Mastered by Dan Abatemarco speakonion.com

Thank you:
Dan A.
Jason P.
Lys G.
Del Shannon

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Mercy Choir is the musical project of Paul Belbusti, a person from the New Haven, Connecticut area of the United States of America.

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