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The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice
Genre: Experimental Music
Sub-Genres: Post-Rock, Experimental Ambient, Dark Ambient, Neoclassical, Ambient Trance, Psychedelia, Psychedelic Ambient, Rhythmic Noise
Instrumental

The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice is a solo ambient post-rock project from Kit Carruthers. It is an exercise in hypnosis. The instruments used are a synthesizer, two electric guitars, a base guitar, two violins, a viola, a cello, a double bass, a piano, a harpsichord, a harp and a sitar. The albums that have influenced this project are MGR's "Nova Lux," Jakob's "Solace," Hammock's "Mysterium," Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians," Deathprod's "Morals and Dogma," William Basinski's "The Disintegration Loops," Philip Jeck's "7," Svarte Greiner's "Knive," Biosphere's "Shenzhou," Deaf Center's "Pale Ravine," Harold Budd's "Lovely Thunder," Tim Hecker's "Harmony In Ultraviolet," Mono's & World's End Girlfriend's "Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain," Port-Royal's "Flares," M83's "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts," Daturah's "Daturah," Surface of Eceyon's "The King Beneath the Mountain," Bardo Pond's "Dilate," B. Lustmord & Robert Rich's "Stalker," Merzbow's "Merzbeat," Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works 85-92," Murcof's "Remembranza," Cities Last Broadcast's "The Humming Tapes," Eluvium's "Talk Amongst The Trees," Jóhann Jóhannsson's "Englabörn," Max Richter's "The Blue Notebooks," Sylvain Chauveau's "Le Livre Noir du Capitalisme," Aes Dana's "Season 5," Empusae's "Funestus," Kashiwa Daisuke's "Program Music I," The Doors' "The Doors," and Merzbow's "1930."

And it wants to hypnotize you into doing some very very dark things.

"Please Murder Me" is an introduction to the project, it is strictly electronic. It emphasizes repetition but in the future this project will not necessarily be quite this repetitive. It is amateur and done without access to real actual people with real actual classical instruments.

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SAC0016: Please Murder Me EP

01. What's a Reality I Can't Tell the Difference [09:03] .: Lyrics .: Music Video
02. Object Alteration Visual Distortion [10:00] .: Lyrics .: Music Video
03. Feelings of Impending Doom [02:58] .: Lyrics .: Music Video
04. Peripheral Shadow People [11:00] .: Lyrics .: Music Video

Total run time: 33:01
Release date: August 28th, 2024

Concept by Kit Carruthers; composed by Kit Carruthers; performed by Kit Carruthers.

Album art by Kit Carruthers.







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