![]() In support of this release the band will once again be touring around the United States, releasing various thematic videos, and a Cassette Box Set Compendium which features six hour long tapes of all of the band’s released material, and some unreleased material spanning 1998 - 2007. It is simultaneously a celebration of the triumph of virtual technologies, and a wake for the end of our old and sacred biology. It is in fact a “Secret Operation”, but also a call to humanity to stop consuming art, and just “Make Art” instead. ![]() It is not right out there in the open for all to see, and yet it is. Then you can easily see where to draw your ovals and curved lines. You just start off by drawing a rectangle and then draw a grid out of it. They are very easy to draw, if you know how to. The message is hidden in the dirt, the excrement, the unconscious, and written in a secret language - “Dreamspeak”. Today I will show you a drawing trick for drawing impossible ovals (Mbius Strips). The message concerns mushrooms and gurus and vegetable wisdom - “Let The Mushroom Teach”. The message concerns the art of magick and making things happen in conformity with the Will - “Hey! Let’s Make It Happen”. The title of this album is a sigil (but you can call it The Impossible Shapes), a potent symbol of desire - the desire to quickly spread a message to all of humanity, as revealed by the various entities encountered in dreams, visions, and astral travel. Eventually the band ended up recording these 11 songs to extra sticky analog tape in their own makeshift warehouse studio on South Walnut street in Bloomington. These recordings have been through a lot - starts and stops and false starts and falser stops. Songwriter Chris Barth translates a cosmological view as psychedelic nursery rhymes or rock n roll cracked into free form strata. More than 100 papers have been written about impossible figures (Kulpa 1987), and Escher made extensive use of them in some of his well-known drawings. At the root these four long-hairs are a pop band - kinda like how Byrds became a meta group - who’ve been strained through British folk as well as the whole post/beat/mystic literate gob. Shade it a little and you're done Gold stars for everyone Now for the eye/leaf shape. This album is their pinnacle song mound that could have been issued by Zapple, if times had been different. Once again off those little extentions you follow the outside of the star. With this release the band has recorded songs which were flushed out over many live performances over many tours all across the globe. In 2005 the band released its fifth full-length record, Horus, followed by Tum in 2006.The Impossible Shapes have been merrily musickmaking - mostly under the radar - for a decade now. In addition to the Impossible Shapes and their collaborative solo efforts, Barth, Deer, King, and Groth also play in the soul band John Wilkes Booze with singer Seth Mahern and guitarist Eric Weddle. That year, Chris Barth also released Loving Off the Land: A Story in Two Parts, while 2003 saw the release of Bless the Headless and We Like It Wild. Released in 2002, Laughter Fills Our Hollow Dome won even more praise for its more experimental take on the group's sound. In 2000, the Impossible Shapes released Quality Control for the Liquid Room, a split cassette with Sissy Fuzz, as well as The Great Migration, which earned favorable reviews comparing the band to everyone from Pavement to Syd Barrett to the Small Faces. In 1999 Barth's own Match Factory was released, as well as King's Proton Elixir cassette and Deer's Back When I Spoke Gibberish on the Acoustic Juice label, which also released his 1998 cassette, The Fish That Got Away. Barth issued the cassette-only Compilation and Mono Fruits in 1998 on his own Impossible imprint, as well as the Impossible Shapes' debut EP, On a Delicate Evening, the following year. The group - which features Chris Barth, Aaron Deer, Peter King, and Jason Groth - formed in the late '90s. Equally inspired by lo-fi indie rockers such as Guided by Voices and psychedelic popsters such as Olivia Tremor Control and Apples in Stereo, Bloomington, IN's the Impossible Shapes began playing and recording together before they were old enough to drink.
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