Late Twentieth Century Magnetic Tape Archives, Volume One: Solo Acoustic

by The Undecidable

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1.	Foxy 02:01	buy track
2.	Moments 02:00	buy track
3.	The Symmetry 01:56	buy track
4.	Straight Lines 02:08	buy track
5.	The Difference 02:49	buy track
6.	Rosy Rouge 02:11	buy track
7.	And I'll Be Your Lover Again 03:00	buy track
8.	What I Said 02:12	buy track
9.	Rise 02:52	buy track
10.	I Don't Need Any Highways 01:58	buy track
11.	The Road Got Weary Long Ago 03:20	buy track
12.	The Measure Of Time 01:32	buy track
13.	Don't Lie To Me 02:09	buy track
14.	If That's How You Feel 03:14	buy track
15.	It's Hard 02:57	buy track
16.	Your Heat Is Good For Me 02:54	buy track
17.	Stones 01:34	buy track
18.	False Reasons 04:48	buy track
19.	The Promise 03:34	buy track
20.	There Was Light 01:07	buy track

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This album is decidedly "lo-fi". All the tracks were recorded sometime during the 1990s, using one microphone (Shure 58), plugged into a small, portable, cassette recorder (JVC).

In the 80s and 90s I regularly recorded all my spontaneous song ideas onto cassette, using just one microphone for both my guitar and vocals. I recorded hundreds of spontaneous songs that way, so I can't always remember the exact year that I recorded a particular track. I think these particular tracks were all recorded in the mid to late 90s. Some were composed as I played them, but most had been written beforehand, sometimes several years earlier.

All of these tracks were written and played by me, at home, in Toronto.

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released December 22, 2020

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The Undecidable Toronto, Ontario

The photo above was taken in 1988. I began recording at home in high school (1985). I also sang in The Grendels (1988/89) and Vine (1992). In the 80s and 90s I used various names on my solo releases, including Moving Camera, Mark De Plume, and my "real" name, Paul Waliczky. I've been explicitly calling myself The Undecidable since the early 2000s. ... more

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