A new Fossil Aerosol recording
for the close of 2013 – released December 15 on bandcamp.com.
“Three Days at Qurna” considers
the commodity of antiquity and the fakery of the ancient. The title refers to
the Egyptian village of Qurna, which was recently destroyed by Egyptian
authorities to provide a "cleaner and safer" environment for tourists
approaching the Valley of the Kings. The village was built atop and within a series of ancient tombs - used for dwellings, workshops, and (many years ago) sources of antiquities. For generations, many of the residents of
this village made their living by selling relics found literally beneath their homes. More recently, craftsmen in the village had
taken to making reproductions and fakes of ancient Egyptian artifacts.
There are no synthetic sources
in this piece. It is composed primarily of fragments of vintage Egyptian folk
recordings, processed and mixed live in the studio. Falsified ethnography
