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Various Small Whistles and a Song

  • Cat No: DAUW78LP
  • updated:2026-03-13

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10inch 5550 JPY

Chicago-based cellist/sound artist Lia Kohl, whose name also appears on such notable labels as International Anthem, Drag City, and Moon Glyph, offers a witty set of sonic snapshots—16 tracks, each exactly one minute long—created as a response to Ed Ruscha's 1964 photo book "Various Small Fires and Milk."

Released on Dauw, the Ghent, Belgium label known for its handmade cassettes and records. Featuring guests drawn from her close-knit community—claire rousay, Macie Stewart, Patrick Shiroishi and others—this work is built from field recordings, synth, and cello, reflecting the spirit of "the astonishing celebration of the ordinary" she took from Ruscha's book. Field sounds gathered from collaborators are placed either layered with her own playing or left untouched. The structure of Ruscha's book—15 photographs of fires and one of a glass of milk—appears here with the fires as whistling and the milk as collective voices in song. A fascinating experimental piece assembled from the mundane and the humorous. Check out the tracklist as well. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)

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