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No Island

by Winged Wheel

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    comes w/ redundant DL code - shipping on or before May 5 2022

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Monsella 04:55
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Blue Pigeon 04:06
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Lasso Motel 02:03
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Grey On Grey 05:24
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Stone Oaks 05:30
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about

Winged Wheel is made up of four musicians whose worlds have intersected for years without them ever all being in the same room. Cory Plump (Spray Paint, Expensive Shit), Whitney Johnson (Matchess, Damiana), Fred Thomas (Tyvek, Idle Ray), and Matthew Rolin (Powers/Rolin Duo, solo) have been longtime participants in various d.i.y. communities, crossing each others’ paths through shared gigs, working on releases, or taking the stage at Cory's small upstate NY bar. Each player has developed their own personal practice of improvisation and home-recording, and Winged Wheel began by chance when Cory asked Fred (drummer for Detroit summer punks Tyvek) to send over some rawly-recorded drum loops to jam over. Cory tracked rangy guitar and bass parts over these repetitive loops and songs slowly started taking shape. Matthew's guitar layers took these foundations to a whole new level, and Whitney's submerged vocal tracks solidified everything, elevating the project from a soup of partially formed ideas into something intelligible. The entire album was written, recorded, and mixed in remote collaboration, eventually turning into a balancing act of precisely arranging sonic details and maintaining the formless excitement the music began as. This paradoxical process can be heard in the final form of the album, a continuous zone that manages to be strange and amorphous while still carving out space for four distinctive musical personalities. It’s a sound that hovers and stumbles as often as it takes declarative turns in unexpected directions, the circles getting smaller the closer you zoom in.

credits

released April 29, 2022

Whitney Johnson
Cory Plump
Matthew J. Rolin
Fred Thomas

Lonnie Palmtree - Lap Stee / Sambago Bells on "Monsella"
Mastered by Mikey Young
Cover photography by Matthew Chasney
Thanks to Joe Casey for the Watts Club Mozambique knowledge
c&p 2022 Winged Wheel under license to 12XU
all songs c&p 2022 Winged Wheel

LP's manufactured in Loděnice

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Winged Wheel Detroit, Michigan

Winged Wheel :
Whitney Johnson
Cory Plump
Matthew J Rolin
Steve Shelley
Lonnie "Palmtree" Slack
Fred Thomas

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