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Favorite Poems

by Macho Blush

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    8 Song Cassette (30:22)
    Written & recorded by Macho Blush 2015
    voice/piano/guitar/violin

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But this side effects that side
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We're closed The sky is closed We closed at noon Blood in the gutter Learn a new language Be tough Bear the blows Of the meteors
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It will end The moment you begin To catch your breath And check your point
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First Hand 02:43
These flowers are proving it today Telling me what I ought to know
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Long Dreams 04:55
May I help you How can I help you

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8 Song Cassette (30:22)
Written & recorded by Macho Blush 2015
voice/piano/guitar/violin

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released October 1, 2015

"Macho Blush is Austin based Gina Probst, a self taught multi-instrumentalist raised around music and inculcated with the natural sense of experimentation that comes from such elaborate solo-orchestration... as well as the peculiar influence of emergent no-wave sensibilities in psychedelia. Across her growing discography, self-released and occasionally in association with Austin noise outlets, Probst fuses diverse elements into rugged timbres... sometimes through strident passages but more often in an evolving, fitful hypnagogia, reflected in the shifting attitude and orientation of vocals and instrumentation alike. Despite the distinctive clangtint of her music, the 'noise' is incidental to exploring the dense creative space between wakened awareness and the symbolism of dreams, transmitted by oblique lyrics and miscellaneous thematic markers across both audio and text... though Macho Blush can resemble acousmatic music thanks to an impressionistic approach to sound production, these songs are nonetheless expressive, and particularly of their origins in the primordial act of creation." - Crash Symbols

~ Recent and Past Reviews:

"... Favorite Poems is a celebration of the id, a whirlwind of psychological experimentation and sonic maximalism, and an exercise in transcending limitations." - Ryan Masteller

cassettegods.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/macho-blush-favorite-poems-self-released.html

"And what extremely innovative endeavors these are. Gina's sounds are so expansive, like noises reaching across time. Sometimes sounding futuristic, then completely tribal, blending together, being torn apart to be mixed again. Favorite Poems is fascinating and the farthest out there tape i have listened to." - Lost in a Sea of Sound lostseasound.blogspot.com/2015/10/macho-blush-favorite-poems.html

('Firma') "Things become clearer. More abstract and clearer. Clear like blown out, like a traffic flare or a platter of small explosions.
-(island excerpts)" - Tiny Mix Tapes
www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-macho-blush-firma

"There’s a tiny shack outside Austin, Texas that can make the ill Unsick. Drawing from the light of her sturdy lantern, anti-folk noise-wave sha(wo)man Gina Probst gets Macho Blush on those incurable people through a variety of sounds that is nothing short of broken brilliance. Collaged and messed within the cycle of “what is music?” in honor of the Unsick, she has recorded some of these healing sessions and put it out on Crash Symbols. Within nine miracles, she hones in flecks of acoustic clash, warped chanting, and mixing alchemy to create some jarring internal care that all at once creates an uneasy of pure relaxation… Progressing sound is the name of the game, and not only is Gina Probst on that via holistic listening…” - Tiny Mix Tapes
www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-macho-blush-unsick

“Gina’s experiments with layering tracks to choice piano flourishes and demented percussion turn snide mantras like “sweat-shop/slave-ship” into ingrowths of politics and nihilism of form. It’s not total cut-up, as the substance is of a consistency and human speed…” - Animal Psi

('Under Weight') "expect cymbal crashing, floor toms, demonic chanting and a shitload of distortion. In the 70's, Jimmy Page spent years shooting smack and making a soundtrack for Kenneth Anger that ended up sounding like Macho Blush's recorded music." - The Austin Cut

"what the fuck?! this might be one of the craziest/coolest tapes (‘Under Weight’) i've received thus far. this tape is absolutely awesome - exactly what i've been wanting to hear for a long time now… the music is completely unique and totally bizarre. to describe it accurately is tricky but its something along the lines of fragmented/collaged demented free jazz piano with no-wave drumming and chopped and screwed singing… i can't say i've heard anything this intriguing in a while." - Peter Negroponte, Cassette Gods
cassettegods.blogspot.com/2013/03/macho-blush-under-weight-self-released.html

"Macho Blush. Another artist whose live sound collage performances border on transcendental. Warm, dark, shifting and hellish (in a necessary, redemptive sort of way)."

"In a world where most adults are less musical than all children, a deep awareness of music can be very isolating. This is what that sounds like." -Sonic Review

"This music is an antidote for massive depression."

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