Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band is Ezekiel Honig

Ezekiel Honig

Ezekiel Honig, a New York City native, is a musician and label manager for Microcosm Music and Anticipate Recordings. He is a well known figure in the electronic music community.Ezekiel Honig usually follows a strict production code on all of his songs...

's fifth album, released October 27, 2008 by Anticipate Recordings

Anticipate Recordings

Anticipate Recordings is an independent record label based in Manhattan founded by electronic music producer/performer Ezekiel Honig. Anticipate combines elements of electro-acoustics, ambient, slow motion techno and found house with traces of filtered influences ranging from jazz, post rock,...

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Reception

Critical reception of the album was very positive. Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor

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—an online magazine

Online magazine

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 with a focus on electronic music

Electronic music

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—named Surfaces of a Broken Marching Band as the 13th best album of 2008. In their review of the album, RA reviewer Derek Miller give it a rating of 4.5 out of 5 and stated that "there hasn't been a better 'ambient' album this year." Alexandra Savvides of Cyclic Defrost

Cyclic Defrost

Cyclic Defrost is Australia's only specialist electronic music magazine. It is edited by Sebastian Chan, Shaun Prescott and Alexandra Savvides, and covers independent electronic music, avant-rock, experimental sound art and left field hip hop....

had strong praise for the album, ending her review with "nothing can come close to describing just how amazing this release really is."

Track listing

1. "Porchside Prologue" – 1:19
2. "Broken Marching Band" – 5:04
3. "A Brief Visual Pattern" – 5:06
4. "Seaside Pastures part 2" – 5:57
5. "Displacement" – 3:35
6. "Porchside Economics" – 5:29
7. "Material Instrument 1" – 5:27
8. "Material Instrument 2" – 4:25
9. "Past Tense Kitchen Movement" – 4:40
10. "Epilogue" – 3:29

Personnel

• Craig Colorusso – guitar on track 9
• Thomas Hildebrand – field recordings on track 2
• Mark Templeton
  Mark Templeton (electronic artist)
  Mark Templeton is a Canadian experimental electronic artist. Templeton's works are released by New York City record label Anticipate Recordings.-Background:...
  
  – guitar on tracks 1,6,9
• Twerk – mastering

External links

• Ezekiel Honig's website
• Anticipate Recordings' website