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The Hand As Dealt

by Derek Monypeny

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    Limited edition black-vinyl LP. The Hand As Dealt was mastered for vinyl by Mark Gergis and pressed at Gotta Groove Records. Edition of 500.

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    Derek Monypeny has recorded a limited edition 7-inch to "The Hand As Dealt." "Derek Monypeny Plays Sun City Girls Songs On The Shahi Baaja" is dedicated to the memory of Charles Gocher, Jr. and is limited to 200 copies. It comes with a protective cardboard jacket and sleeve. This bundle includes "The Hand As Dealt" double LP and the limited edition 7-inch.

    All proceeds for sales of this 7-inch will be going to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (www.pcrf.net). The PCRF's mission is to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to Arab children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality, politics or religion.

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    The bundle includes the Hand As Dealt 2LP, limited edition 7-inch, and shirt.

    This shirt was designed by Vanha Lam and John Hubbard.

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    The bundle includes the Hand As Dealt 2LP, 2019's How Can Be LP, limited edition 7-inch, and shirt.

    2182 has received a limited number of Derek Monypeny's How Can Be LP (originally released in 2013 and remastered in 2019).

    The shirt was designed by Vanha Lam and John Hubbard.

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We often talk about how sounds are referential, but how many records are truly prescient? How many are after living through 2020? Well, even though Derek Monypeny’s The Hand As Dealt was recorded before arriving at such a chaotic point, the album presages the future. The tracks are a song cycle of creative tension that crescendos with “The Tamarisk,” but never allows for the chaos to overtake the compositions.

Conceived deep in the Mojave Desert, these masterfully executed solo guitar and shahi baaja recordings cover a wide sonic and emotional gamut, passing through pastoral psychedelia, severe shred-freakouts, hazy Egyptian string sections, and Riley-esque pulsing hypnosis. It is a sprawling, immersive homage to the spiritual music of the elders – Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Umm Kulthum (and her Orchestra), and Terry Riley.

The fifth release from 2182 Recording Company, The Hand As Dealt is the first solo record for Monypeny in seven years. His involvement with 2182 extends another concentric circle out from the label’s Mount Meru series, which was developed by Alan Bishop, David Oliphant, Joel Robinson and Monypeny’s bandmate Richard Bishop.

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released April 9, 2021

The Hand as Dealt

Derek Monypeny
Guitar, Shahi Baaja

Tracks 1-4 Recorded by Derek Monypeny at Studio Pendejo, Yucca Valley, CA
Tracks 5-6 Recorded by Charlie Stavish at The Clock Tower Recorder, Joshua Tree, CA
Mixed by Charlie Stavish and Derek Monypeny
Mastered by Mark Gergis
Cover Art by Vanha Lam

The music on this record is inspired by and dedicated to:

Umm Kulthum (and her Orchestra)
Terry Riley
Alice Coltrane
Don Cherry

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Derek Monypeny Joshua Tree, California

Born in the Arizona desert, a veteran of multiple explorations into the Sahara desert via Morocco and Western Sahara, and now a resident of the Mojave, Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over. ... more

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