October 7, 2009

New STS9

STS9 will be releasing a new album--Ad Explorata--this November, and the story behind the album's name is wildly interesting:
A family member of ours has a shortwave radio that we have all been messing around with. We had been using it for sound effects and noises when one day it was left it on in the studio. Keyboardist David Phipps’ daughter Aya was playing around with the dials when all of a sudden it stopped on this voice on the super low frequencies of the spectrum. It was a woman’s voice, artificial we later found out, counting off numbers in a very clear and concise way. We became obsessed with what we had heard and for weeks we sat behind the dials trying to find more voices.
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2 comments:

  1. What it sounds like to me is Number Stations. These things creep me out... but a lot of music has been based around (or titled after) recordings of these broadcasts. If you listen to the audio on the Wikipedia page I'm linking, you'll hear her read off "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" which is where Wilco got their album name from. It is believed that these stations were (and still are) used in spy communications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

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  2. Thanks for that link, Chad, that's creepy as hell. Maybe STS9 are really government spies and this whole "musician" thing is just a cover-up for their international operations.

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