To purchase this release, please visit our Bandcamp page: https://williamselman.bandcamp.com/album/the-weather-indoors

Format: Limited Edition Vinyl LP, Digital Album, 8x10” Prints
Cat no: MOTDLP016
Release Date: May 19, 2023

Tracklist:
1. Tropical Doxa
2. Voyage in the Blue
3. Leaky Paradise
4. Frigidaire Idylls
5. Umami Lagoon
6. Farther Off Among the Foaming Black Rocks
7. A Soft Degeneration
8. Program for Anthropotechnics

Portland, OR-based multimedia artist William Selman returns to Mysteries of the Deep with his third album for the label. Drawing on influences such as David Toop, Beatriz Ferreyra, Elizabeth Waldo, and David Behrman, “The Weather Indoors” melds live and synthesized instrumentation, field recordings, and digital processing techniques in a new, more melodic and approachable direction.

Immersive site recordings open into melodic woodwinds, orchestral instrumentation, bass guitar, gongs, and vibraphone. Borrowing from the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s concept of “inversion,” this widescreen staging cuts immediately to the core of the project: the way human beings use the faculty of imagination to aestheticize their built surroundings with architecture, images of distant locales, and domesticated flora and fauna to contain the anxiety for the natural world that surrounds human life.

A clear peak in Selman's extensive catalog, “The Weather Indoors” captures his work at a moment expanding his musical and aesthetic project: Neither genre ambient nor musique concrète, but a unique sound world dense with conceptual play and moments of more traditional harmonic beauty.

“We are contaminated by our encounters: they change who we are as we make way for others. As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds—and new directions—may emerge. Everyone carries a history of contamination; purity is not an option.” — Anne Lowenhaupt-Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World 

Written, produced, and recorded by William Selman
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio NY
Words, Photography, and Video Direction by William Selman
Design by Gabriel Benzur
Editing by Chris Zaldua

Pressed by: AFG Record Manufacturing
Worldwide Distribution: Space Cadets
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