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    This 2 CD set comes in digipak with booklet. The album art features reprints of altered and counterfeit colonial Connecticut bills as well as custom-made, hand-stamped prints of the tilings.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut / a lot of tiles (trivial scan) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut interleaves guitar passages with readings of excerpts from the book of the same title written by Kenneth Scott and published by the American Numismatic Society in 1957. Readings from the Scott Compendium are complemented with readings of texts written by Winter reflecting events that occurred during the composition of the piece; particularly the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man brutally murdered by police while being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. Winter writes in the liner notes: “[While] I was reluctant to connect George Floyd with counterfeiting and colonialism… his murder, as well as the pandemic, clearly demonstrated that inequalities accepted in colonial times have persisted.” Winter goes on to explain that “the music of the piece was written using a coin press as a central metaphor. The underlying variables in the computer program that generates the piece vary slightly within and between each section, like variations and errors in the minting of coins.” Simpson is accompanied by Gemma Tripiana Muñoz on piccolo and the texts are read by Simpson, Winter, and animator Mandy Toderian.

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from Counterfeiting in Colonial Connecticut / a lot of tiles (trivial scan), released January 13, 2022
Elliot Simpson: guitar, bass, reading
Gemma Tripiana Muñoz: piccolo
Michael Winter and Mandy Toderian: reading

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