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bass Adam Steck
guitar Quentin Moore
guitar Trip Warner
piano Mike Kutchman
recorded by, mixed by Mike Kutchman
vocals Sarah Smith
Recorded At Kutch 1 Studios
Mixed At Kutch 1 Studios
Edition of 200 .
175 signed and numbered by Sam Falls .
Created in collaboration with a group of musicians, this limited edition, blue-marbled vinyl stems from a sound piece by Sam Falls, which played on a loop in Ballroom Marfa's gallery as part of his 2015 solo exhibition. The limited edition record features a woman's voice repeating the word now alongside simple chords played by four musicians. The LP that plays in the exhibition contains a thin metal strip that causes the record to skip, creating an original composition with each rotation. This sound work speaks to another work in the show, Falls' video piece Untitled (Now), where he continuously writes the word now into sand with a stick before it gets repeatedly washed away by waves at the ocean shore. Together the works reflect the artist's interest in capturing the passage of time and its elements, providing viewers with various mediums in which to consider the present.

I wanted to visualize how we can see or hear time as it passes to be reminded of its unified past, present, and future; every moment is 'now,' or will be 'now,' or was 'now.' 'Now' is a temporal shifter as I see it, and so these works regenerate the word to inform the moment both as specific and as the works progress elliptically 'now' becomes abstracted and wholly representational. -- Excerpt from Sam Falls artist statement
Matrix / Runout: SF-001 A 5-94128 (Runout Side A)
Matrix / Runout: SF-001 B 5-94129 (Runout Side B)