Sure Is A Good Hamburger, by Lance Austin Olsen

Sure Is A Good Hamburger

by Lance Austin Olsen

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$3 USD or more
Full Digital Discography

20

releases

Get all 20 Modern Concern releases available on Bandcamp and save 80%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Land Ethic (Extract), Bushed Stiles, razing / raising, Expansion Towards Pristine Flatness, Sure Is A Good Hamburger, Mada, The Great Court, Natural Rhythms Vol. 2, and 12 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

$10 USD or more (80% OFF)
Handmade CD-R (MOCO15)
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD-R folded within a handmade alabaster paper sleeve from Middle Press. Materials designed, sourced, and assembled in Chicago by Modern Concern. Includes numbered folded paper napkin insert.

Edition of 30.

Includes unlimited streaming of Sure Is A Good Hamburger via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Sold Out

Sure Is A Good Hamburger 39:40

buy track

about

Sure Is A Good Hamburger is a haunting new composition from Canadian master Lance Austin Olsen. For 25 years, Olsen has fearlessly cultivated a singularly painterly approach to modern classical and improvised music, conflating visual and graphic approaches to composition with an eclectic and uncompromising repertoire of sound. His work has appeared on labels such as Infrequency Editions, which focuses on his collaborations with sound artist Jamie Drouin, caduc., Elsewhere, and Another Timbre.

Hamburger is a startling new addition to Olsen’s over half-century of artistry. Rather than presenting the listener with the pleasure of the meal, Sure Is… instead seems to concern itself with the journey of digestion. Dark, depressive stretches of post-industrial soundscapes slowly tunnel through the bowels, compromised in a maze of idle conversations, raw acoustics, and symphonic bursts of microsound. A lonely guitar periodically echoes through vast expanses of reductionist orchestration and gestating silence. Monochrome, billowing, in perplexing variations of consequence; somber images of dead airwaves, waiting rooms, and the eerie early hours before the break of morning.

What once felt grounded in reality soon begins to feel increasingly imagined. Despite any familiarity with Olsen’s performance or practice, Hamburger reduces our notions of contemporary sound design, and in the process, swallows you whole. What state you come out on the other side remains to be seen.

//

credits

released April 8, 2022

Sure Is A Good Hamburger was composed and performed by Lance Austin Olsen in 2021 with guitar and amplified objects. Sampled conversation between Roberto Romero Molina, Luis Ituarte and Lance Austin Olsen.

lanceolsen.ca
infrequencyeditions.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/lanceaustinolsen/

license

about

Modern Concern Chicago, Illinois

Broadly focused distributor of small handmade paper-plastic products.

Head music, creative composition, and new acoustic languages.

Instagram

contact / help

Contact Modern Concern

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Sure Is A Good Hamburger, you may also like:

Imperial Distortion
by Kevin Drumm

supported by 11 fans who also own “Sure Is A Good Hamburger”

Hilarious Ending. I love it. NoodlesBates
go to album
"Fashion Tape" (NRR66)
by Vanessa Rossetto

supported by 11 fans who also own “Sure Is A Good Hamburger”

Varied sonic collages, colorful as the eye-grabbing album art, twist and turn throughout Rossetto's "Fashion Tape." It's a delightful release that combines the artist's intimate drones with an almost playful plundering of samples and sounds. jckmd
go to album
Evaporation
by Ryoko Akama/Anne-F Jacques

supported by 10 fans who also own “Sure Is A Good Hamburger”
go to album
bivouac of the avant-garde: contemporary minimal, electronic and experimental music, vol.2
by Difficult Art And Music

The 17 mindbending songs on this compilation represent minimalist experimental music at its best, a collage of blips and static. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 3, 2022
go to album
Work of Progress & Etudes
by J.Lynch

J.Lynch (aka Thirty Pounds of Bone) plays with organic elements, including prepared piano, against electronics to impressionistic effect. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 21, 2023
go to album
42 Days 四十二天
by Southeast of Rain 东南有雨

This stunning, beautiful project from Fujian duo Southeast of Rain 东南有雨 blends field recordings with rippling notes from the pipa. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 8, 2021
go to album
Betula
by Germaine Sijstermans

supported by 10 fans who also own “Sure Is A Good Hamburger”

This is bomb like. Imagine a world where this was played in shopping malls and everyone was content. John Shaeffer
go to album