Diurnal Burdens & Carl Kruger “Taxonomy of Avoidance” CDR (Kirigirisu)

In the 25 years since Ross and Carl first met on a geocities geocaching for beginners message board, they’ve self-published nine 90 minute new age inspired instructional cassettes about the joys of map coordinates. How they managed to stretch so many hours from what they themselves describe as a shared, surface-level understanding of the subject remains elusive. Nevertheless, the pair have faithfully rented a booth to sell the series at an unsanctioned, alt-Glastonbury, cheese-rolling-meets-cartography-literature festival, inexplicably staged in Reading every third Pancake Day (weather permitting). In time, word got back to them that people liked the nature sounds paired with the public domain soft jazz hold music under their talking more than the discussions of maps, themselves. They learned this by being directly told as much, every third Pancake Day. Swallowing their pride, Ross and Carl decided to end the nine cassette run of coordinate instruction cassettes (spoiler: the bulk of which discuss in no small detail the validity of saying “up” instead of North). In it’s place, a new goal: their own take on nature recordings layered with new age inspired instructional cassette public domain soft jazz hold music. That they’d make. With real instruments, live musicians and a very limited knowledge of how to use either effectively. Some traditions, apparently, die hard.

Signed,
Tony Slopshiresbridgehamfordsmithson