Silence Is Contagious, by Walter Campbell

Silence Is Contagious

by Walter Campbell

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FANE Seemingly fun and playful, but serious as a heart attack, Walter delivers on “Silence Is Contagious”. Dada-like vocal cut-ups rearranged, distorted, stretched and fused into what feels like three distinct art installations. I feel like I’m going to be enigmatically sifting through the layers of vocal arrangements here for a long time. 10/10 Favorite track: Pledge Allegiance.

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1.	Pledge Allegiance 10:01	buy track
2.	Roofie 13:32	buy track
3.	8:46 08:16	buy track

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This is a collection of material I recorded as Dickie Snakedick (DS), a moniker I used from 2021-22.

I am re-releasing these three songs under my proper name as I move away from the DS moniker and "rebrand" myself. I do so because these songs capture the direction I wish to continue going as a solo recording artist/whatever.

I decided to call this collection "Silence is Contagious", a phrase I've been using since 1999 or so. Silence is a theme in each song if I operationalize "silence" to include inaction, conformity, and oppression.

This is my second release as "Walter Campbell". The first is an album released by No Part Of It, also a curated mix of DS material:
nopartofit.bandcamp.com/album/walter-ego

"Pledge Allegiance" is the latest DS song I recorded, and deeply influenced by blind, cult-like political allegiances and personalities of recent times. I'm pretty sure I was also inspired by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Themes continue with Israel’s ethnic cleansing (if not genocide) of Palestinians in Gaza, and the U.S.’ inability and unwillingness to stop it.

"Roofie" was previously called "Jammin' with the Roofies", an inside joke that I decided to give a more ominous title, given the repetitive pulsating, after hours-club vibe coming the song itself. For the record, I do not endorse roofies, rape, or any form of non-consensual or coercive sexual violence.

"8:46" is the first song I recorded as DS, and certainly some of my most poignant social commentary. RIP George Floyd. Black Lives Matter! In the lyrics I explicitly repeat the song title and refrain, "Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death", from Diamanda Galás' album, Plague Mass. I channel her bitter renouncement of the Reagan/Bush administration's silence and inaction during the AIDS pandemic. I wanted to make a connection to not only Blue Lives Matter, pro-authoritarian enablers of white supremacy and violence, but also well-intentioned white folk like myself who "do the work" until disengaging and falling back into our privilege knowing the stakes are low for us.

You can hear more Dickie Snakedick material at:
dickiesnakedick.bandcamp.com

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released September 9, 2022

updated November 16, 2023

Written, performed, & engineered by Walter Campbell July 2021 - July 2022

Mastered by Grant Richardson @ Hex Audio Labs November 2023

Photo by Walter Campbell

Thank you Arvo Zylo and Jamie Stewart

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Related projects: Dickie Snakedick, book on VHS, NVS

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