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Mueller Tunnel

by Tasting Menu

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Full Spectrum Records is pleased to present Mueller Tunnel – an immense new work from Tasting Menu. Hailing from Los Angeles, Tasting Menu is a collaborative project featuring Cassia Streb, Cody Putman, and Full Spectrum alumnus Tim Feeney, exploring instrumental and found sound, movement, tape recorders, door frames, window panes, rainstorms, pine cones, concrete floors, and children’s cartoons.

Mueller Tunnel documents a site-specific performance that was recorded on-location within the Mueller Tunnel itself, which is located in the Angeles Mountains, roughly 20 miles north of Pasadena, California. The hundred-yard tunnel was blasted out of the middle of the mountain by the US Forest Service in 1942 to serve as a fireroad gateway to the summit of Mount Lowe. A landslide in 2009 closed the tunnel to motor vehicles, and today it is only accessible by driving to the Eaton Saddle trailhead and hiking or cycling further towards Mount Markham.

On this particular expedition, the performers hiked in with a wagon full of recording equipment and instruments strapped to their backs, accompanied by photographer Eric Basta, whose brilliant photographs of the surrounding landscape accompany the release.

The sounds they created, however, are truly astounding, as the group’s collective vibration frequently achieves a sort of primordial resonance that feels as if it were naturally emanating forth from the landscape. These are deeply intuitive performances that operate on a refined inner logic, which is thankfully documented within the ornate visual scores included in the liner notes.

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released September 3, 2020

Tasting Menu is Cassia Streb, Cody Putman, and Tim Feeney

Photography by Eric Basta
Graphics by Cassia Streb

Recorded by Eric Basta and Tim Feeney
Mixied by Tim Feeney
Mastered by A.F. Jones

Layout by Patty Osborne
Produced by Cassia Streb

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