prions and scrapie, by Nate Scheible

prions and scrapie

by Nate Scheible

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3.	proper channels 04:19	buy track
4.	i don't give a fuck if you like me 03:42	buy track
5.	dogslit techno 03:21	buy track
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7.	and i drink through the round vowel 04:04	buy track
8.	miscellany series 01:38	buy track
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Originally released on Unifactor, July, 2020. Please visit them, support them, and listen to the entirety of their incredible catalog. Physical copies may still exist in limited supply: unifactor.bandcamp.com

Words about Prions and Scrapie:

Nate Scheible’s body of ambient solo work is gently staggering, turning a boundless analogue world of miscellany into moving sonic short stories from somewhere deep inside the modern domestic American psyche.
-Tristan Bath, The Quietus

Disembodied characters crawl in between and under the sounds on Prions and Scrapie without context or declared purpose. There’s then a real-time, retroactive re-framing of the music heard across this album. These small gestures speak volumes, signalling a discontent burbling beneath the surface of these smooth textures.
-Audrey Lockie, Slug Mag

Prions and Scrapie is the newest chapter of Nate Scheible’s emotionally rich instrumental sounds. A Cleveland native now living in D.C., Scheible has been involved with multiple bands and projects over the years, but his recent solo work has turned towards glowing tape loops that patiently crumble and swell. Unlike the detached, wallpaper connotations that often come with ambient music, these pieces are anything but anonymous. Listening to Scheible’s rolling waves of synth and tape-derived sounds, you feel like he’s telling you a story from his past or casually sharing something about himself that’s reserved for a trusted friend. The sounds are lush, open and somehow wordlessly vulnerable in a way that music of this kind often reaches for but rarely achieves.
-Fred Thomas

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released July 31, 2020

Recorded & Mixed by Nate Scheible
Washington, DC, 2019
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
Special thanks to Steve Korn and Jayson Gerycz
Art & Design by David Russell Stempowski

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May 2023
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Feb 2022
prions and scrapie

Jul 2020
indices

Jul 2019
breezewood

Nov 2016
matter

Oct 2015
rhetoric

Mar 2015

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