U90 | Brandon Auger | terminal runner
1. martello _excerpt
2. slate return_excerpt
format : glass mastered CD ltd to 200 hand numbered copies/Digital
Regular edition of 180 copies packaged in clear vinyl sleeve with folded insert + an additional art card both on 350gr satin paper
Special edition of 20 copies packaged in black mass-tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame.
it holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on matt Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme.
Inner sleeve features 100% organic cotton Aquari handmadepaper inkjet printed with edition number + artist’s name and title, and enhanced with a B&W photo reproduction of one of the stones used in the making of this album (none the same), artist’s name + title.
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release year : 2025
length : 41’57
tracks : 1. martello
2. slate return
status : OUT NOW !
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Regular edition
(Belgium) : 14 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 15 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 16 € (inc.postage)
Special ultra ltd edition SOLD OUT !
(Belgium) : 17 € (inc.postage)
(Europe) : 18 € (inc.postage)
(World) : 19 € (inc.postage)
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: info :
Several years ago, I walked away from a long-standing abusive relationship. The process of healing wasn’t linear, nor was it easy—but it began with something elegantly simple: walking. I spent countless hours walking through the city and in particular Point Pleasant Park, combing its rocky beaches searching for “sea brick” washed ashore. Over the course of 2 years, I collected 104 pieces of broken bricks. Each brick, a symbol of a week, a step, a moment of reclaiming myself.
In parallel, I found myself drawn to the decaying remnants of the old military batteries lining the shore and their rusted metal spires poking out from the earth. These mangled forms, beaten by the waves and corroded from the salt water, became a tactile objects of expression for my inner landscape, a physical manifestation of struggle and resilience. Slowly I began archiving these raw expressions, improvised and untethered from restraint as pure reflection. They were my way of processing, born of necessity.
The resulting composition Terminal Runner is a documentation of that journey: a blending of field recordings, found sounds, and the residual energy of the healing from the past. Each track’s recurring sonic palette represents the cyclical nature of abuse—the ebb and flow of power, control, and release—and my attempt to work through its haunting echoes. What started as a personal archive of catharsis had over time become a sonic artifact—a piece of the past I can now look at and understand, not as something to escape from, but as something to help me carry forward.
This album is not just the sound of erosion, but the sound of recontextualizing power and reshaping tension. It’s the motion of running through the terminal, embracing the uncertainty, and finding peace within fragments.
(Brandon Auger, July 2025)
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