Fragment for Balance.

More plainly, these are not conventional compositions, nor are they collective improvisations; but are made of simultaneities, conspiracies, accidents, careful planning and a guiding aesthetic that is both exacting and empirical.

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Object Holder by Biota, released 27 April 2019 1. Bumpreader 2. Spillway 3. Eavesdrop 4. Blind Corner 5. Under the Hat 6. Flatwheel 7. Reckoning Falls 8. Swallow 9. Move 10. Steam Trader 11. Understander 12. Private Wire 13. Cinder 14. Distraction 15. Signal 16. This Ridge 17. Idea for a Wagon 18. More Silence 19. Coat 20. Gate Climbing 21. Protector 22. Visible Gap 23. The Trunk 24. ()

Number of Discs: 6. Released: March 22, 2019. Originally Released: 2019. Tracks: . ither Without The Other. 1. ast Out For Light. alking Is Missing. hirl Quarter Moon. 2. arlier An Encounter. abbit In The Rain. emember Even Though.

When Biota announced the release of Fragment For Balance, my delight in receiving a new bulletin from the collective after not so long was soon replaced by the mild shock of realizing that their previous outing Funnel To A Thread had been published in 2014. I wasn’t paying attention to all those months flying away (to paraphrase another title from the group’s discography). Every single snippet of the multitude of sketches, proposals and fully fledged visions represents a piece of fertile ground for sensible roots.

Biota is an American experimental electronic music collective that has produced numerous albums since its beginnings in the late 1970s. Biota is known for its highly detailed and often radical compositional approach, which involves extensive electronic processing of traditional acoustic sound sources, often blending and coalescing folk, jazz, chamber, and rock idioms, among other music forms. Object Holder was the first Biota album to include sung lyrics, written by Katsimpalis and Cutler. Biota-Mnemonists has performed onstage only twice - at the Colorado State University art school in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1981, and at the 1990 New Music America festival in Montreal, Quebec, where the group premiered a suite of original works composed specifically for the occasion, featuring live (real-time) production and projected animation created by Mnemonists artist Heidi Eversley. Biota's current lineup (Fragment for Balance) consists of Kristianne Gale, James Gardner, Tom Katsimpalis, Randy Miotke, Charles O'Meara, Mark Piersel, William Sharp, Gordon Whitlow, Larry Wilson, Randy Yeates, and Dave Zekman.