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Dumb Tangerine Dream

Collecting four long-form pieces recorded in Fair Oaks, California from 2019-2021, the Bren't Lewiis Ensemble expands its surreal musique-concrète language into spacious improvisations of loops, electronics, distressed guitar, voices, found sound and acoustic debris, balancing eerie drift with the group's characteristic burbles, squeaks, abrupt edits and absurdist interventions.

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Bren't Lewiis Ensemble-various instruments, electronics, loops, voices, found sounds

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Label: Krim Kram
Catalog ID: KK-20
Squidco Product Code: 37985

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: Ireland
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Fluxus Enigma, in Fair Oaks, California, between 2019 and 2021.

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Collecting four approximately 18-minute pieces originally issued between 2019 and 2021 as extremely limited 3-inch CDRs, Dumb Tangerine Dream finds California's Bren't Lewiis Ensemble stretching its collage aesthetic into longer, more spacious forms. Rather than the denser, rapidly changing constructions heard elsewhere in the group's catalog, these pieces unfold as extended improvisational environments built from loops, electronics, distorted guitar, voices, found sound, mechanical textures, and miscellaneous acoustic debris.

The result sits somewhere between musique concrète, outsider electroacoustics, free improvisation, and an intentionally damaged parody of cosmic music, with drifting passages repeatedly interrupted by squeaks, burbles, fragments of speech, and abrasive intrusions.

Recorded at Fluxus Enigma in Fair Oaks, California between 2019 and 2021, the four tracks were gathered by Krim Kram in 2024 as a single CD, with inserts reproducing artwork from the original micro-edition releases.

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California experimental collective active since the early 1980s, working with a fluid and frequently pseudonymous membership to create dense, absurdist combinations of musique concrète, free improvisation, electronics, tape collage, found sound, distorted guitar, voices, toys and everyday objects. Their recordings often combine elaborate editing and layered studio construction with deliberately ramshackle performance, deadpan humor and an interest in accidental, damaged and environmental sound.

-Squidco 10/5/2026

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Track Listing:

1. Bygone Baguette Mailboxes Of French Polynesia 17:55

2. Tremendous Pace Of Melt 17:52

3. That's My Deathbed 18:13

4. Attract And Reproduce 18:20

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