Exactly five years after the release of his debut album “The Helical Word” under the AEMAE project, Brandon Nickell has released his third album eponymously, “And If You Set This Mind Of Mine Afire Then On My Bloodstream I Yet Will Carry You” which was recorded, mixed and fully realized beteen Winter 2007 and Spring 2010. The album is inspired by personal experiences and extensive research with auditory hallucinations (particularly while living in East Oakland in the early 2000’s) and the title is taken from the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) poem “Put Out My Eyes” with minor revisions in the title. 2010 is an age of cassette revivalist culture, analog synthesizers and nostalgic aesthetics; however the album makes no apologies in not conforming with these trends and instead opts to use all tools at the creator’s disposal to achieve a unified vision that has been a painful three year undertaking in order to create a work that is unique in scope. The album was recorded with virtual analog synthesizers using computer based-sequencers, the Sequential Circuits Pro One synthesizer, the human voice, and features further extensive use of analog and digital synthesis. The fifth track is the studio version of a live piece which was originally released on the Black Horizons tape in 2009. Mastered by James Plotkin in Summer 2010; artwork by and design by Brandon Nickell using a two-dimensional tessellation of the tesseract pressed with gold foil on black matte CD jackets. Never to be re-pressed in its original form. Edition of 500 copies.

Tracklisting:

1. Hanging On By A Golden Thread
2. And If You Set This Mind Of Mine Afire Then On My Bloodstream I Yet Will Carry You
3. IAD Wave
4. Time Throne
5. The Roughest Jewel In Your Glittering Crown (Second Key)