Squidco: Eubanks, Bryan: Songbook [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]

Songbook [VINYL w/ DOWNLOAD]

A compelling solo work from Bryan Eubanks, recorded in Berlin in early 2021, where soprano saxophone and electronics trace fragile forms and fleeting memories, shifting from intimate acoustic subtleties to fierce circuit-bent resonances in a poetic exploration of sound, presence, and the quiet suspension of time.

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Bryan Eubanks-soprano saxophone, electronics

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Drawing and Japanese style woodblock print on 400g paper for each of these releases by the artist Rolf Schröter. Each edition is hand stamped with credits and numbered. Special and very limited edition of 100 copies.

Label: Sacred Realism
Catalog ID: SR023
Squidco Product Code: 36865

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Germany
Packaging: LP
Recorded at Maple Studio, in Berlin-Spandau, Germany, in January, 2021, by Andrew Lafkas.

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"Sacred Realism is pleased to release yet another recording that really could find a home nowhere else. Recorded in January 2021 in Berlin-Spandau, Songbook is a document of dissolving, almost not there, form and the poetic interpretation of shared ghosts (people, instruments, music, and machine). Expressing the music, and other feelings, through a broken circuit and a dynamic range spanning subtle acoustic saxophone to blistering circuit bent feedback, Songbook is finally a tender and loving recording, made with no intention other than spending some days in a basement during a brief period when time seemed to stand still."-Sacred Realism

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"Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) is a musician composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and idiosyncratic electronics; improvising in collaboration; and experimenting with spatial diffusion techniques. Publicly active since 2001, he's had numerous collaborations and presented his work internationally in a variety of settings."

-Sacred Realist (http://www.sacredrealism.org/bryaneubanks/)
10/29/2025

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Track Listing:

SIDE A

1. Songbook 1 07:08

2. Songbook 2 04:21

3. Songbook 3 05:42

SIDE B

1. Songbook 4 03:48

2. Songbook 5 02:38

3. Songbook 6 07:25

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