{"id":8043,"date":"2024-06-12T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2024-06-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:14:17","slug":"soulwhirlingsomewhere-projektfest96-june-28-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8043","title":{"rendered":"SoulWhirlingSomewhere: ProjektFest’96 (June 28, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo credit: E. Katie Holm<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live At The Vic Theater, Chicago, Il, 6\/25\/96
Genres: Slowcore, Sadcore, Acoustic Indie, Indie Folk
For Fans of: Red House Painters, American Music Club, Slowdive, Elliot Smith, Low
ARC323 \u2022 617026231822 \u2022 June 28, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of Projekt\u2019s classic 90s artists, SoulWhirlingSomewhere was only two albums into his career when Michael Plaster performed this melancholic acoustic set at Projekt\u2019s 1996 label festival in Chicago. Known for intensely romantic ethereal songs combining lush keyboards, sparse guitar, and warm, introspective vocals, Michael stripped his music to its acoustic essence, laying bare heartfelt tales of longing and loss. Soothing yet quietly haunting, the songs dwell on a surrender to hopelessness and despair wrought by the inability to accept and move on after a relationship has ended.

Revived from a front-of-house board-recorded DAT tape in time for the 28th anniversary of ProjektFest\u201996 in June, this recording captures Michael performing nine tracks including the never released \u201ceverything starts and everything ends in march\u201d and \u201cnational monument,\u201d as well as four tracks from the epic 2CD\u00a0Hope Was<\/strong>\u00a0which was still two years in the future.

Projekt\u2019s Sam Rosenthal says: For the past 28 years I\u2019ve had ProjektFest’96 front-of-house board-recorded DAT tapes in a box in my studio. Years ago when I tried playing them they squeaked horribly. I thought time had been unkind to these tapes. A few weeks ago, I saw the tapes in the bottom of the box while looking for other DATs; I thought to give them a try as I have a new old DAT machine in my studio these days. And low and behold, this tape played perfectly. It’s so nice to hear Michael\u2019s set again after all of these years, flashing back to the two-day event with 1000 people in attendance. The 90s were really good to Projekt and our artists! After 23 years of no new music from Michael\u2019s SoulWhirlingSomewhere, it\u2019s wonderful to release this music for his and Projekt\u2019s fans. Michael fully endorses this release and even adds, “Sounds perfect! I actually enjoy hearing this after all this time.”

Past press comments:

OPUS: Above all of this soars Plaster\u2019s youthful and powerful voice, adds an almost innocent, choral quality to the music. Plaster wears his heart on his sleeve, but instead of dangling it in front you, he invites you to see it with some of the most powerful and personal lyrics I have ever heard. The songs are sparse yet warm, like Plaster is inviting me to hear revelations of his deepest anxieties and feelings.

MILK BONE: Michael excels by digging to the core of human suffering. Those thoughts you swore were yours and yours alone: right there, as though he was listening. If only you could word them like this and sing them like that. It\u2019s true. He has one of the most beautifully soothing voices in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Track List<\/strong>:
1 everything starts and everything ends in march\u00a0PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
2 sealing
3 national monument\u00a0PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
4 a mouse in the mouth
5 the last time i left
6 you\u2019ll tear me away from you
7 everyone will eventually leave you
8 i will never let go
9 forget it. i give up. goodbye. i love you.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo credit: E. Katie Holm Live At The Vic Theater, Chicago, Il, 6\/25\/96Genres: Slowcore, Sadcore, Acoustic Indie, Indie FolkFor Fans of: Red House Painters, American Music Club, Slowdive, Elliot Smith, LowARC323 \u2022 617026231822 \u2022 June 28, 2024\u00a0 As one of Projekt\u2019s classic 90s artists, SoulWhirlingSomewhere was only two albums into his career when Michael Plaster… Read More »SoulWhirlingSomewhere: ProjektFest’96 (June 28, 2024)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8045,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/8045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}