Name: Wake Up Awesome
Brand: Caroline
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Wake Up Awesome

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Album: Wake Up Awesome
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Wake Up Awesome	More Info...
2)	Hairslide	More Info...
3)	The Mermen of Poetry	More Info...
4)	Ophelia Gimme Shelter	More Info...
5)	The Mermaids of Extended Technique	More Info...
6)	Magic Seagull Lamp	More Info...
7)	Mission: Lazy	More Info...
8)	Mission: Nothing	More Info...
9)	Throw Down the Fishcake	More Info...
10)	Neutrons Whatever	More Info...
11)	Serious Cat's Milk	More Info...
12)	Anise Tongue and Durian Wet Dream	More Info...
13)	Mission: Possible	More Info...
14)	RSVP Skunk	More Info...
15)	Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives	More Info...

Album: Wake Up Awesome
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Wake Up Awesome	More Info...
2)	Hairslide	More Info...
3)	The Mermen of Poetry	More Info...
4)	Ophelia Gimme Shelter	More Info...
5)	The Mermaids of Extended Technique	More Info...
6)	Magic Seagull Lamp	More Info...
7)	Mission: Lazy	More Info...
8)	Mission: Nothing	More Info...
9)	Throw Down the Fishcake	More Info...
10)	Neutrons Whatever	More Info...
11)	Serious Cat's Milk	More Info...
12)	Anise Tongue and Durian Wet Dream	More Info...
13)	Mission: Possible	More Info...
14)	RSVP Skunk	More Info...
15)	Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: C. Spencer Yeh (vocals, violin, piano, percussion, electronics); Lasse Marhaug (vocals, piano, percussion, electronics, turntables); Okkyung Lee (cello).
Audio Mixers: C. Spencer Yeh; Al Carlson.
Recording information: Gary's Electric, Brooklyn, NY (04/2012-05/2012).
Editor: C. Spencer Yeh.
Wake Up Awesome is the second volume of SSTUDIOS, a series of recordings that situates different experimental, avant-garde, and noise artists in new combinations of collaboration and spontaneous creativity. The album includes the trio of long-running Norwegian noise artist and Jazzkamer member Lasse Marhaug, experimental cellist Okkyung Lee, and New York-based sound collector C. Spencer Yeh, joining forces to create 15 tracks of collective improvisation and composed experimental sounds. The results of a fruitful 2012 studio session between the players were later meticulously edited and reassembled into Wake Up Awesome, resulting in a concise patchwork of Lee's organic but twisted cello squeals and webs of grizzly electronics, piecemeal percussion, and garbled vocalizations from Yeh and Marhaug. No piece outlives its welcome, with many tracks floating by at well under three minutes, and the album culminates in an abruptly ended stew of electronic drones, cut-up vocal samples, and churning hand drums on menacing closing track "Tonight We Sleep Like Empty Hard Drives." ~ Fred Thomas