Ministry Of Affect, by Tom Hamill

Ministry Of Affect

by Tom Hamill

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1.	Feeling: Figured Out 01:46	buy track
2.	Stay Sensitive 05:57	buy track
3.	Mind Shivers 05:38	buy track
4.	Self Portrait With Hourglass 04:36	buy track
5.	PM5 01:50	buy track
6.	Alone In Mind 05:47	buy track
7.	Save Time For Reflection 04:58	buy track
8.	iPhone Worry Stone 02:43	buy track
9.	A Song I’ve Heard Happen In Other People's Lives 06:15	buy track
10.	Change Away 01:47	buy track
11.	Don’t Believe Everything You Think 05:13	buy track
12.	Deliberate Coincidence 02:22	buy track
13.	I Know It'll Be Them 05:42	buy track
14.	Stay In Yesterday 01:44	buy track
15.	Picture Display 01:30	buy track
16.	Stressful Meditation 06:12	buy track
17.	Fear Guides Us Too Much 02:18	buy track
18.	Be Like Water With Me 01:50	buy track

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“I could always live in my art, but never in my life.”
-Ingmar Bergman

“Lose your mind and come to your senses.”
-Fritz Perls

Ministry of Affect [af-ekt, not uh-fekt] is a 70-minute-long collection of instrumental guitar tunes. The album title is both an allusion to the fictional institutions of Orwell's 1984 (i.e., The Ministry of Love, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Plenty, or the Ministry of Truth; see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four) and reference to mental health terminology for emotional disposition. A majority of the tunes were recorded over a year and a half, between August 2016 and February 2018, and a few of the tunes were recorded in 2012. Ministry of Affect is a fuzz-laced and pitch-bending reflection of one's fictional experience navigating mood-hijacking paranoia and it's contents reflect themes of mental health/wealth/illness/wellness. Sometimes the sound may be unsettling or even feel almost 'Orwellian' and at other times it may be hopeful or even cathartic. The album's surreal and blissful tension resembles the haunting tenor that saturates solitary explorations of non-bizarre delusions, ideas of reference, and neurotic speculations of a collective dystopian subconscious. 'Ministry of Affect' is recommended for fans of Roky Erickson, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Side effects may include (but are not limited to) akathisia, mesmerism, and wistfulness.

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released April 29, 2018

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Tom Hamill Portland, Maine

Life Guitar is memory, both the vaguely familiar and vividly recent. It’s youthful nostalgia and surreal daydreams. It’s the fleeting and ephemeral, but also what is persistent and reoccurring. It’s the sedan adventures of a 1950s teenager, 1980s apocalyptic fear, the grain in the Hi8 film of a 1990s home video. Most of all, it’s remembering how to use your imagination to go back. ... more

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