Expedition by Evan Crankshaw & The Dead Mauriacs

Expedition is a collaboration between sound artist The Dead Mauriacs (aka Olivier Prieur) and collage artist Evan Crankshaw, based on their mutual interest in treating exotica as both a subject and a material. Evan Crankshaw's 2015 collage book, also entitled Expedition, is assembled and collaged by hand from a vast archive of popular exoticist printed materials, and explores recurring motifs in expedition narratives, simultaneously evoking and alienating the exoticist fantasy.

In 2018, the book was interpreted for a live performance at Festival BBMix (Boulognes-Billancourt, France) in collaboration with The Dead Mauriacs, who created a complete exotica-concrète score accompanying projected images of the book & live narration. That collaboration can be heard on this album, an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of an imagined actual elsewhere, stitched from pieces of narcotizing fabulisms, disturbing actualities, and incomprehensibilities – an interior excursion into the exotic immensity.

Tracklist

1.	A Theory	3:37

2.	So It Had Begun, By A Fire On A South Sea Island	1:34

3.	Sniffing Out The Great Beyonds	3:53

4.	Outside Time and Beyond Space	3:40

5.	An Expedition is born	3:32

6.	Ahead to the Adventure	4:43

7.	Along an Unknown Shore - The Island Peers Out	2:12

8.	Disorientation - Incomprehensibility - The Exotic Immensi	3:47

9.	Something is Other Than Oneself	4:12

10.	The Primordial Earth	0:49

11.	Eruption and Absorption	3:10

12.	The Indifference of Nature & The Matchless Phenomenon Of	6:15

Credits

released December 4, 2021

Narration read by Evan Crankshaw, with text excerpted from his collage book, Expedition. All text was created by a collage method using Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki as the source.

Music by The Dead Mauriacs

This record is based on a collaboration performed at BBMix in Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Mastering by Joshua Stevenson (Otic Sound, Canada)

Artwork by Evan Crankshaw

Thanks to Marie-Pierre Bonniol, Norscq, Stéphane Deraime and Raleigh Gardinier

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