Grein is a collaborative project between Aaron Michael Smith & Jay Rauch, multi-instrumentalists collaborating over a distance, living in Boston and Seattle respectively. Their work explores geological structures of time that form and coalesce through iterative improvisation.

TAXIC GNOSIS stretches the soloist between immediate physicality and mediate consciousness. ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇ˛ˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇˇ An ear becomes a room becomes a playback machine, listening for its own death, the sound of subjectivity ++,,..002222332200//2233//11//.. ......,,))!!""''**((&&##"" dissolve self into multiplicity;;

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Jay Rauch / clarinet, super snorkel, electric guitar, piano, percussion
Aaron Michael Smith / viola, compostable bag, electric bass guitar

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Composed by Jay Rauch & Aaron Michael Smith - Winter 2020-2021

Mixed and mastered by Grein

Cover Art Photography by Walter Crump

Available as 320k MP3 or 24bit FLAC

Tracklisting:

1. Enuncation - 06:48
2. Broken Planes - 09:13
3. 'TO' - 08:15
4. eam - 03:05
5. SNORK - 04:32
6. FROM OUT AND OUT AND OF AND INTO - 06:57
7. Xeno's Sausagecrust - 00:23
8. Autostriation - 06:29
9. "IN" - 05:43
10. until the sheer blade of it - 09:49