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1.	Prologue 07:00	buy track
2.	Console 05:12	buy track
3.	Incline 06:15	buy track
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5.	Fourgan 07:31	buy track
6.	Chinook 06:09	buy track

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"Wonderful to hear such beautiful, billowing sound clouds emanating from the legendary Touché." - David Rosenboom

Shasta Cults is the musical project of Canadian electronics technician Richard Smith. For almost two decades, Smith was the official Buchla & Associates repair tech for studios, collectors, and musicians around the world. Having worked for artists such as Aphex Twin, Suzanne Ciani, Morton Subotnick and institutions such as The Library of Congress and Mills College, Smith has had the unique experience of restoring and interacting with nearly every model of Buchla instrument constructed over the past 50 years.

Recorded over the span of three months in the fall of 2018, this album was programmed using the only fully functional Buchla Touché. Developed in the early 1980s with hardware by Donald Buchla and software programmed by musician David Rosenboom, the Touché features waveforms generated internally by twenty-four digital oscillators and uses frequency modulation along with sophisticated digital and analog signal processing to produce complex timbres.

This LP is a continuation of themes first heard on Configurations, with more consideration given to the generation and recording of the pieces. The album's six tracks – a collection of sonic experiments and hypnotic drones – span almost forty minutes, showcasing not only the incredible fidelity of the Touché but also Smith's evolution as an audio engineer.

Put on some headphones, find a comfortable chair, and let this LP transport you to the mystifying southern cascades of Siskiyou County.

RIYL: ELEH, Sarah Davachi

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released November 29, 2019

Programmed, recorded and mastered by Shasta Cults - Fall 2018
Artwork by IMPREC

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Shasta Cults Vancouver, British Columbia

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Omaha

Mar 2024
012022

Jan 2022
option 2

Jan 2020
Nihilist's Xmas

Dec 2019
Shasta Cults

Nov 2019
EP

Oct 2019
Configurations

Sep 2019
Arguments for trivialism

Feb 2017

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