His Name Is Alive to Release 10xCD Box Set

Disc #4 (The Pinecone): "My therapy when things were going bad with the music industry was collecting pinecones and trying to turn them into musical instruments," writes HNIA mastermind Warn Defever. "I eventually found a number of them that had desirable tonalities and a certain consistency. I didn't want to make a gimmicky 'Hey look at this funny man playing an ELECTRIC PINECONE' type of album, so I wrote serious songs or improvised duets with 'real instruments' like African thumb piano, nylon string guitar, violin, upright bass, treated music box, electric bear, percussion, and harmonium."

Disc #5 (Mystery Spot): "I don't wanna talk about it, but once you listen you can figure it out, if you're smart."

Disc #8 (Everglades National Park): "Field recordings include Warn throwing rocks at birds, and an alligator attacking and eating a bird. Several birds were probably hurt and at least one bird was eaten during this recording. Warn fails to engage an owl in a flute duet, but does get a good jam going with some fish and a bell."

Disc #10 (Detrola): "Tuesday, June 15th, 2004, I was trying to work in my studio (located in downtown Detroit on Woodward Ave), but I was interrupted in the evening by loud sounds from the street below," Defever writes. "The Detroit Pistons had just won Game 5 of the NBA Championship Finals, beating the LA Lakers 100 to 87, and the people of the city had decided to celebrate with an unofficial late night drunken parade. The steady stream of car honking, screaming, and gun shots were too loud for me to work so I decided that maybe this would escalate into a cool riot and that maybe I should tape it. I set up some microphones out the window and waited for hours thinking it would soon pass. Eventually I decided to join in. I tried to accompany the orchestra of blaring car horns and the roaring choir of excited sports fans on the piano. After several hours of not-quite-riot behavior, the police closed off the street, but the party continued in the distance..."

Time Stereo doesn't quote a price for all this jazz, but it's worth noting that The Cloud Box will be a very limited edition release: Only 50 will be sold, all through TimeStereo.com, which released a similar 10xCD HNIA box set back in 2000, entitled Heart and Hand-- and that one sold out in mere hours. There's no specific release date listed for The Cloud Box, but sign up for the site's email list and they'll give you a heads up. Shit, Defever might even whip up a few more found-sound albums while u wait.

Time Stereo: http://www.timestereo.com