Bass Womb Room

BASS WOMB ROOM: My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings, Melissa Auf der Maur’s first new music in over 15 years, out digitally and via cassette on Sept. 4th via Envision Records. It features seven never-before-heard 4-track tape recorder demos written and recorded by Auf der Maur in the ’90s, as well as eight new “interludes” created for her upcoming museum exhibition Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs, opening Sept. 2nd at the Art Gallery of Ontario. A 240-page photobook of the same name, arriving Sept. 8th via DelMonico Books/D.A.P. and the AGO, accompanies the exhibition.

This album is an interaction between the ambient yet noisy BASS WOMB ROOMinstallation score, and the seven ’90s demos made by the girl who took the photos in this exhibition and book. There is a purity and an innocence to these recordings, made at home in Los Angeles, that sits in stark contrast to the music Auf der Maur was making in the studio with Hole at the time. “I wrote these songs in the context of rising pressure from the major label-driven music industry on myself and my peers to make glossy hit songs to dominate radio airwaves,” says Auf der Maur. “These songs are the sound of my internal experimentation and a way of keeping the Montreal art girl alive inside. These sounds are the quiet and private side of the girl who joined the big American major label rock band.”

BASS WOMB ROOM:  My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings Tracklist
1. Active Heart
2. … And The Next Day
3. Courtney Chimes In
4. Desire is Critical
5. In The Reflection
6. Water Wars
7. Flesh Flush
8. Is She His
9. Billy Seoul Crowd
10. Love Is The Drug
11. Sparkle Bass
12. Fancy Piece (Featuring The Hunger World)
13. River’s Dream
14. Sea Of Tranquility
15. Skip A Beat