Call Me When You Can, by John Atkinson & Ned Milligan

Call Me When You Can

by John Atkinson & Ned Milligan

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SOLD OUT AT SOURCE--THESE ARE THE ONLY COPIES THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. THEY ARE ABOUT TO BE SHIPPED TO NED AND WE HOPE TO GET PHYSICAL COPIES OUT TO FOLKS IN EARLY JUNE.

- 1 x Vintage (circa:1895-1957) hardback clothbound book: re-assembled / bound together (inner and outer spines) into CD covers
- Each copy also includes pages of writing / pictures from each book
- 20 x A7 photographic prints on luxury uncoated paper; designed by Craig Tattersalll
- 1 x A7 library print (stamped / numbered)
- 1 x vintage family photograph (circa:1875-1962)
- 2 x finger printed CDs
- Vintage book-marks
- 1 x Vintage (rare) glass slide (6 x 6) that rests inside glassine bag
- Stamped / hand numbered / scented
-All of the above rests inside stitched / sealed Japanese wax bags

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1.	Wooly 04:40	buy track
2.	Caroler 03:15	buy track
3.	Summons 04:56	buy track
4.	Plunko 02:39	buy track
5.	Celestial Mechanics 04:31	buy track
6.	Field of Vision 05:16	buy track
7.	Last Song Sung 07:08	buy track

about

After 15 years of friendship often centered around the sharing of music, in early 2019 John and Ned decided it was time to make some together --despite (or because of) the fact that their paths in life had made it difficult to be physically co-present. Ned’s chimes were at his wife’s family house in Maine, and his daily life was occupied by his work as a schoolteacher, husband and father in Queens. John had just returned to the US after years of living in Australia, and was living semi-nomadically between California, Minneapolis, and New York working as a writer.

Undeterred by distance in time and space, Ned sent John some cassette recordings of him playing chimes in Maine. John fed them into his laptop, twisting samples of the chimes, tuning wind and tape hiss into tones, and improvising with refracted versions of Ned's own sounds. Ned listened, and responded with suggestions for edits and refinements.

The process was repeated one song at a time, until very gradually over the course of 2019 this back and forth accrued into an album - a heartfelt index of one dear friendship, and a testament to the profound connections in life that can not only endure but flourish in new ways amidst times of separation.

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released May 18, 2020

Ned Milligan: chimes
John Atkinson: processing

mastered by Taylor Deupree
design by Dan & Jess

released by Fluid Audio

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John Atkinson Brooklyn, New York

I build electronic music out of processed field recordings from natural and urban environments. Prior work in Brooklyn's Aa (Big A little a).

johnatkinson.org

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