{"product_id":"to-remind-myself-i-have-lived","title":"To Remind Myself I Have Lived","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe new album by London-based Michele Tellarini under the Catholic Block moniker gathers works made across five years, moving between composition, improvisation and a more instinctive form of sound collage. Known for his work with concrete punks Qlowski (Feel It Records\/Maple Death) and goth-punks Secrecy (La Vida Es Un Mus), Tellarini approaches this material without the conventions of a traditional song cycle, allowing disparate pieces to find their own connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first works emerged during the UK lockdown of 2020, as conversations, walks, guitar bits and experiments made at home accumulated into a kind of fragmented diary. The process continued almost unconsciously between other projects, with recordings made across different rooms, machines and cities gradually disappearing into folders, from synth improvisations cut into new shapes to pieces made entirely from MIDI on a laptop. Rediscovered years later, they became traces of a life lived across places, moments and changing states of mind. \u003cbr\u003eThe album's strange coherence comes from this accumulation. Nothing needs to resolve into a conventional song. A fragment can remain a fragment; a provisional title can remain a title. Day 4, Track 3, Track 4 and Track 5 retain something of their original existence as files rather than finished compositions, while the recurring if only pieces suggest thoughts returning in slightly altered forms. Elsewhere, Loop #1 turns repetition into a lo-fi orchestral warble, while Track 5 opens into something closer to cinematic wonder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Plant","offers":[{"title":"LP Vinyl","offer_id":54850882765123,"sku":"RPT-33672","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/57009e01-c892-c06c-1c5f-4c35dbc03022.png?v=1790682475","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/to-remind-myself-i-have-lived","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}