{"title":"Disasters by Choice","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"en-masse","title":"En Masse","description":"\u003cp\u003eConsisting of the band’s first self-release tape (only a limited amount were made) and the first ‘proper’ release, a 4-track EP originally on the Dining Out label. Neither had a title for some reason. This does. \u003cem\u003eEn Masse\u003c\/em\u003e is the name of an early track that was never recorded (for legal reasons). (It’s about fishing\/not fishing). The tape has 9 tracks covering politics – I Think About It\/50 Yard Dash\/Anti-CWOF (we still are), emotions – Harmonics of Passion\/Johnny on the Pathetic (this IS a love song) and, of course, nonsense – Double ‘A’ Initials\/MVOB2, leaving Gatenby (‘baby, it’s just instrumental’) and 19 seconds of Egypt (‘we did all we could within the constraints of time and money’).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe EP was far ‘looser’, partly improvised, with the addition of some trumpet and saxophone. Only 3 tracks were recorded, I Can’t Remember being a dub version of For the Life of Me – another sort of love\/life song as is J. Have, plus another instrumental, Thirty Purple Birds, whose title came from a nonsense poem by….I can’t remember. Both were recorded at a local (Portsmouth-ish) studio called Toucan in 1981.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Pompey punk\/funk\/what? for less than the price of a lot’. Should not be lost to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disasters by Choice","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53549542703435,"sku":"R3960-9161","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8033706211656.jpg?v=1759847723"},{"product_id":"redux-3","title":"Redux","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRedux\u003c\/em\u003e, an ambient-folk album from Portland, Oregon musician, poet, and multimedia artist Dao Strom, is a collection of nine resurrected pieces. Reimagining songs she initially composed as a member of the Austin, Texas alt-country and singer-songwriter scenes of the early 2000s, Strom reworks these lost songs into ambient-folk mini-epics—part grounded and earthly, part ethereal and otherworldly. Drawing on an intimate yet spacious palette of folk, ambient, and experimental textures, woven through with a poetics of vulnerability and quiet emotion, \u003cem\u003eRedux\u003c\/em\u003e explores song as gently reverberant fields of layered vocals over finger-picked guitars with touches of electronics and sampling. Strom’s musical journey initially began in a roots and acoustic vein, simultaneously with her career as a fiction writer. In the years since, she has moved from Austin, Texas to Juneau, Alaska to Portland, Oregon; her work too has expanded across genres into more experimental formats of poetry, music, and multidisciplinary art. In returning to these earlier songs, Strom reclaims and revives them, exploring her relationships to time, voice, and the continuances of emotion and memory. The word redux means “brought back; revived”; a sense of something restored—earlier renditions of some of the Redux songs were recorded with Austin-based collaborators and producers; some songs were written in that time period but never recorded. Produced, performed, and recorded by Strom alone in her home studio, \u003cem\u003eRedux\u003c\/em\u003e is a return and reemergence of the artist to her own most personal, intuitive structures and atmospheres of voice, sound, and song. Released on cassette by Antiquated Future Records, and reissued on vinyl in 2026 by Disasters By Choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Disasters by Choice","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57040988963147,"sku":"R2214-2256","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8056099008245.jpg?v=1776266808"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/disasters-by-choice.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}