AARON ROSENBLUM - "State Fair!" CS

Aaron Rosenblum - State Fair! Volume 1: The Midway CS (Hank the Herald Angel Recordings, 2023) A long-awaited release, highly anticipated amongst the freaks, punks, and scoundrels of Kentuckiana's archival field-recording underbelly, "State Fair!" has finally emerged in its glorious physical form and does not, of course, disappoint. Now gather round, seekers of thrill, and lend an ear if you dare not fear "the truth" (*your weight or birth month), for the fairgrounds are abuzz with SOUND [echo: sound... sound...]. Sounds so vivid you can almost smell the thick, wet, cotton-candy-meets-agricultural-waste scented air of a dwindling mid-south summer as Rosenblum patiently guides his listeners through three hypnotically bustling phases of Amusement Concrète... "Recorded August 21, 2013 at the Kentucky State Fair and Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky  Three portraits of idiomatic dialect captured at the Kentucky State Fair by field recordist, musician (Sapat, Son of Earth), and radio