2011 OR SO...Selected Works 2011-2015

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1.	Portrait of a City 02:56	info	buy track
2.	Music from the Death Lounge 07:36	info	buy track
3.	Composition in Grey 2 07:16	info	buy track
4.	An Incident at the Terminal Beach 06:37	info	buy track
5.	Words for the Other Room 06:51	info	buy track
6.	Riot in a Telephone Booth 04:55	info	buy track
7.	An End to Amnesia 07:26	info	buy track
8.	Burning former_airline Gives You So Much More 07:38	info	buy track
9.	Don't Destroy, She Said 04:34	info	buy track
10.	Concrete Flowers 05:07	info	buy track
11.	July 12th 06:51	info	buy track

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Selected Works 2011-2015
Originally released on CDR from FALRec, 2018.

Former Airline may have taken his name from a B-side by British postpunk band Wire, but his music is in a broader tradition of experimental rock music that runs from artists like the Silver Apples, through Eno and krautrock, into postpunk, EBM, industrial and beyond. He has been putting out DIY cassettes and suchlike for a while now and 2011 or so… is a collection of material spanning several years. It opens with the musique concréte noise collage Portrait of a City, but gradually dissolves into less sonically uncompromising but no less exciting and interesting territory, with cheap rhythm boxes merging with hazy, ambient synth drones taking over by the time An Incident at the Terminal Beach comes around, while later tracks increasingly incorporate distorted, washes of shoegaze guitar. Taken together, 2011 or so… is an intriguing and quite beautiful musical glimpse into the mind of a mad scientist.

— Ian F. Martin (Clear And Refreshing / Top 25 Releases of 2018)

2011 OR SO...CDR available at the following record shops in Japan :
▶︎Forever Records foreverreco.thebase.in/items/35835559
▶︎SUB Store substore.jimdofree.com
▶︎VASISTAS www.facebook.com/Vasistas-1410923572388982/
▶︎MARKING RECORDS shop.markingrecords.com/items/27023511

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released July 20, 2018

Track 1 to 2 : from Sleeping in the Dead Pool (Ephre Imprint) 2011
Track 3 to 4 : from An Incident at the Terminal Beach (Feathered Coyote Records) 2013
Track 5 : Previously Unreleased Track 2013
Track 6 to 7 : from A Meteor Stream Attack on the Control Tower (Ginjoha) 2014
Track 8 to 9 : from ICE / SILENCE / DEATH (A Giant Fern) 2015
Track 10 to 11 : from Concrete Flowers Please (HEROINSIDE) 2015

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former_airline Tokyo, Japan

Masaki Kubo has been exploring and developing his sound since the 1990s through various bands and his own experiments with guitar, electronics, tape and more. This sonic cosmos came together under the name former_airline towards the end of the millennium’s first decade, which has drawn comparisons to author J.G. Ballard and been referred to as “sci-fi psycho-eroticism” or "dystopian snapshots”. ... more

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