We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Phases In Exile

by Miles Cooper Seaton

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9 USD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Phases In Exile via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Phases In Exile via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $9 USD or more 

     

1.
Out Here 01:44
buy track
2.
Pacts With Beasts 05:43
buy track
3.
I Am That 05:00
buy track
4.
It Just Does 03:09
buy track
5.
Little Prince 03:22
buy track
6.
Persona 05:58
buy track
7.
Division 01:52
buy track
8.
Nothing Lasts 03:27
buy track
9.
Death and the Compass 06:05
buy track
10.
Homes By The Sea 03:23
buy track

about

This music and any other I make is an expression of some inner emergency, and Phases in Exile is the resulting process of inquiry. Its narrative emerged wearing several masks until it finally started to resemble a woozy, asymmetrical structure. A derelict place off a crooked road. Now suddenly it seems critical to share that maze with others, if only as an attempt at some human conversation.

To me, music and art may be the closest we come to an encounter with divine energy in our brief lives. They can provide a catalyst for real sharing, an occasion to gather and construct a temporary shelter inside the existential crisis of life. I consider art a blood pact with the people it serves. When someone gives me or my work their attention, their time, they are giving me their life. So to blindly tether this sacred work to the haze of transactions in contemporary western culture is not only to drain the spiritual energy and magic from its practice – it is an affront to the offering of all involved.

Over the last 20 years of making music I have seen the contexts for this type of transformational work become devoured and commodified and eradicated with such force, and at such an accelerated pace, that it now seems inconceivable to younger artists that they can function as anything other than a content machine... more
credits
released November 10, 2017

Words and music by Miles Cooper Seaton

Produced by Miles Cooper Seaton
Recorded by Brian Haran at the Pinebox, North Carolina *
Mixed by Jim Bob Aiken
Mastered by Douglas Henderson

* Additional recording / orchestration / realization occurred at:
Green Machines MK II, Los Angeles, California with M. Geddes Gengras
O.F.F. Studio, Torino, Italy with Paul Beauchamp
Vaggimal Studio, Vaggimal (VR), Italy with Francesco Ambrosini
and Studio in Exile by Miles Cooper Seaton

Additional musicians:
Zeno Baldi: percussion
Bradley Cook: bass guitar, guitar, organ
Phil Cook: slide guitar
M. Geddes Gengras: modular synthesis
Leanne Pedante: vocals, piano, Wurlitzer
Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: viola
Joe Westerlund: percussion
String arrangements by Jeremy C. Simon

Photography: Ana Blagojevic

All songs © & ℗ Miles Cooper Seaton 2017.
“Persona” after A’yunini, or the Killer (Jerome Rothenberg translation).


Thank you:
Leanne Pedante: my light, heat, rock and reason. The Seaton, Pedante, Fischer and Vanderburg families. The mighty Emily Moore, Trevor Baade, Patrick Gookin, Ana Blagojevic, Marco Stangherlin, Tobia Poltronieri, Filippo Brugnoli, Niccolò Cruciani, Giulio Deboni, Alioune Biaye, Gigi, Verdi, Jack, Gio, Giovi and Zy, and all my Veronese famiglia. Gianluca, Robin, Andrea, Leo, Damiano and all the Trovarobato crew. Ossian Foley, Alessandro Cau, M. Geddes Gengras, Bobby Kittleman, Fabrizio Palumbo, Paul Beauchamp, Joe Westerlund, Carson Efird, Brad and Phil Cook, James and Leah Toth, Zeno Baldi, Francesco Ambrosini, Brian Haran, Jim Bob Aiken, Sean Newsham, Brad Kulisic, Ismini Adami for typography, Andrea Belfi, Stefano Pilia, Fabio Cerina, Lucia Gasti, Chris Angiolini, Enrico Martinelli and all at Bronson. Matteo Botteghi, Pisa, Pietro Poltronieri, Janine and Sadaat Awaan, Angel Deradoorian, John Colpitts, Erin Fitzgerald, Greg Wooten, Kammer Klang, and always Seth Olinsky, Dana Janssen and Ryan Vanderhoof: what we made will always move in me.

Dedicated with loving memory to Celia Anderson Seaton.

credits

released August 24, 2022

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Jacknife Records & Tapes image

Jacknife Records & Tapes Los Angeles, California

Record label of Atwater Village-based record shop, Jacknife Records & Tapes.

contact / help

Contact Jacknife Records & Tapes

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Phases In Exile, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now