- When
- May 2014
This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.
Boomkat, which stocked the label, still lists this record, filed under Dark Ambient / Drone / Metal.
Mike Weis is probably best known for sitting behind a plethora of drums and gongs in long-running Chicago three-piece Zelienople, but his music is just as potent unaccompanied. He began working on Don't Know, Just Walk under particularly difficult circumstances: it was 2013, and he had just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Using loops of field-recordings, gongs, radios, home-made instruments, drums and traditional Korean percussion, Weis pieced together an album that is as reflective as it is mesmerizing. Don't Know, Just Walk is a complicated record – an album about death that doesn't dwell on the negative, and one created by a drummer that doesn't contain a whole lot of rhythms.
Made at Type.
Earlier in the catalogue: Pye Corner Audio — The Black Mill Tapes Volumes 3&4 TYPE118. Later in the catalogue: Black To Comm — Black To Comm TYPE120.