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Alejandra and Aeron
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Alejandra and Aeron are best known as the founders of the Lucky Kitchen imprint that they started in New York in 1997. As an artist couple they work in the dynamic yet much underestimated field between documentary, narrative, sound and music. With their every choice, they deny spectacle and pure entertainment, however unlike most protests, they prefer to work with degrees of beauty and softness. The "Scotch Monsters" release is an audio revision from the installation "Revisionland" that was presented at The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland in 2002 (curated by Diskono): in an English garden buried mushroom shaped speakers in the soil played a version of the work on this CD.

"Scotch Monsters" includes the sounds of 16 Scottish spirits. In Scotch myth, people are sometimes warned of the presence of monsters by the particular sounds they make. Monsters and their sounds always fill a spiritual need of thecommunity. History and legend weave together,and certainly interact with us today: if we pay attention to these kinds of things.

Note:The previously released Bottrop-Boy 12 inch which is only available in a very limited edition was based on a slightly different version - the present recording is the third and final rework.

Alejandra Salinas: Born 1977 in Logrono,Spain
Studied art history and fine art in Toronto and New York

Aeron Bergman: Born 1971 in Detroit,USA
Studied art history and fine art in Toronto and New York

They currently live and work in Barcelona,Spain



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This release is an audio revision of an audio revision from the
installation "Revisionland" that was presented at The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland in 2002 (curated by Diskono).

The second revision became the Bottrop-Boy 12 inch which is only available in a very limited edition. This present recording is the third and final rework.

Notes from the authors:

"At the Changing Room Project Space in Stirling, Scotland, the gate to the highlands, we made an English garden, and buried mushroom shaped speakers in the soil.

These mushroom speakers played a version of the work on this