PV - AMERICAN LAND (SM064)

Internal Memorandum #PVSM064

Confidential: Circulation Restricted to Division Heads Only

Subject: PV’s "American Land" - Strategic Release Initiative

From: Talent Management Operations, The Line Treading Company
Date: November 8, 2024
Label: Strange Mono Records
Classifications: No Wave / Avant-Garde / Noise Rock
Not to be disclosed without proper clearance.

We are authorized to announce that American Land, the latest deliverable from the Massachusetts-based PV project, will be released to the public on November 8, 2024, through Strange Mono Records. This is our most daring consumer-grade exploration to date, occupying a unique but unsentimental space in the No Wave, Avant-Garde, and Noise Rock markets.

Background & Key Influences
PV—originally deployed as an experimental asset by The Line Treading Company—has grown to embody a genre-resistant aesthetic marked by the dissonant influences of PC Worship, US Maple, Butthole Surfers, Sun Ra, Boredoms, and Naked City. Thematically, PV’s compositions continue to channel the cold reality of corporate culture, tinged with the decay reminiscent of the Enron Scandal.

Operating without consistent personnel, PV has functioned since inception as a collective of on-call contractors. A calculated rotation of musical technicians, regardless of proficiency, has generated a sound engineered to resonate with subcultural dissonance, critical in our expansion into alternative markets.

Previous Projects of Note
Team members have previously been affiliated with products such as Sad Queers in B Minor, Queer Bait, Jiddo, and Bleach Bloys. Each of these releases has met its targeted engagement metrics and contributed to a growing consumer base within subversive, “independent” sound ecosystems.

Recording Insights
The "American Land" session was executed in under an hour in an unlit, undisclosed facility. Vocal contractor Marc Vray provided improvised chanted vocals, purportedly invoking ancestral spirits whose presence was somehow secured to cover the evening’s operational expenses, including nightly pizza requisitions from the Pentagon. The auditory landscape produced in this environment is expected to resonate with listeners aligned to PV’s ethos: no-nonsense defiance of conventional harmony or accessibility.

Release Strategy
We anticipate "American Land" will stimulate a niche but passionate audience with its raw, alienating presence. Accordingly, all marketing and distribution will be focused on high-conversion “unlisted” channels, with product positioning tailored to avoid mainstream contamination. Strange Mono Records will handle all public-facing announcements and peripheral engagements.

Continue to monitor memos for updates on PV’s “American Land” engagement metrics and post-release analysis.
credits
released November 8, 2024

Bart Pepper - Vox, Guitar and Violin
Big Jake - Bass guitar
Emerson Lake and Palmer College - Aux Percussion
Johnny B Not Goode - Drums
AlexGSUV - guitar, Vox
Recorded by Marc Vray at Upside Records in Worcester, MA. May 2023

Album cover by Joerg Dressler.
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