The Bloom of Performance

by Mark Trecka

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1.	Utter Fallen Bloom Things 04:38	buy track
2.	Staying Desire 03:12	buy track
3.	Clarity Demand 03:58	buy track
4.	Houndedness 05:52	buy track
5.	Epiphanic Crush 04:11	buy track
6.	Wrestled To Regard 02:40	buy track
7.	New Dreaming Gestures 04:37	buy track
8.	Speak Or It Will 02:59	buy track
9.	Go Through 05:20	buy track

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Mark Trecka’s 'The Bloom of Performance' was recorded over the course of a year with Sam Skarstad (Yellow Eyes) and features contributions from Martin Courtney (Real Estate), Evan Hydzik (Pillars and Tongues), Andrew Petzold-Eley (Obelisk Ruins), A-Y/dancers, and Audra Wolowiec.

'The Bloom of Performance' is one of Trecka’s most generous projects to date, aided by Skarstad’s deft engineering and co-production. Trecka’s voice is dynamic on these recordings: one moment of ascending lilt is reminiscent of David Bowie at his most untamed, while moments of falsetto are as haunted as the fog-threaded mountains that were visible through the windows of Skarstad’s Hudson Valley studio throughout the recording sessions. 'The Bloom of Performance' makes clear that Trecka and Circuit Des Yeux’s Haley Fohr are cut from similar cloths. Myriad strange but beautiful experiments color this dreamy and infectious record: cut-up tape of Trecka’s croon and wail interwoven throughout are startlingly buoyant, dancing with careening drum machine rhythms, at times reminiscent of Adrian Sherwood, HTRK, or Cindytalk.

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released February 23, 2024

All songs written by Mark Trecka.
Performed, produced, and mixed by Sam Skarstad and Mark Trecka.
Engineered and mastered by Sam Skarstad.

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Martin Courtney: bass on 7, various other source sounds and additional engineering throughout
Evan Hydzik: rhythms on 1, 2, 3, 8, and 9 and various other sources used throughout
Andrew Petzold-Eley: rhythm on 7
Audra Wolowiec: source sound (voice) on 4 and 8/9
Claire Deane, Sienna Blaw, Erin Landers, Jacki Calle Hernandez: source sounds on 4, 5, and 7

For: (Open) Sources

Acknowledgments:
Sun Ra, vis-a-vis: "and here comes my brother, the wind."
7 contains a sample of Skinny Puppy’s “Stairs and Flowers (Dub).”

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Mark Trecka Paris, France

Mark Trecka is a Paris-based singer, sound artist, and writer.

"The Bloom of Performance" is his latest full-length.

Trecka has collaborated with Susan Alcorn, Raven Chacon, Sam Skarstad (Yellow Eyes), Midwife, A-Y/dancers, Audra Wolowiec, Drekka, Walt McClements, Chaz Prymek (Lake Mary) and others. He founded Pillars and Tongues in 2007 and is co-founder of the Beacon Prison Books Project. ... more

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