It's been a while since I made a track. I have not been so productive lately, despite my (stupid) assumption that I would find myself with an abundance of creativity and free time at this juncture.
The time changed, and the days are short. It is autumn now, to be sure, but the weather has not spoken much to that effect. The trees are still green and full of leaves. Halloween came and went without even the most fleeting gust of autumn air, full of the smell of rotting leaves. An odd year. Perhaps a sign for the future.
I've been listening to rather noisy music lately. It started with Dan Deacon, but now, on to Lightning Bolt. Probably big names in their respective genres, but honestly, I don't know. I'm not name dropping here. I am not just trying to say, like, "check me out, I am cool because of what I choose to consume." No, sir. Fuck that very much. No, I am only saying that my musical tastes have been taking a bit of a turn lately. While just weeks ago, in the wake of Pilgrim, I found my style going into a more acoustic direction, now more than ever I am finding myself being pulled back into the sounds of the machine.
It is unavoidable. In our habitats, the hum of the digital age is our holy Aum, Om, Ohm. We hear the whisper of our future, calling out to us. Like the airplanes of Russulo's age, to a man of my age, the computer screams out, seeking a voice, seeking a presence beyond the screen, beyond the box, it screams out, and I want to hear the voice. The new sound, the new aesthetic is the soul music, the music of our digital slaves, humming away in our laps like a Turing kitten.
Though it is not the sounds I seek, it is the sound that seeks me at the moment.
John Lee Hooker's pretty cool too.
Fo da shodies.
I call this one "November Already," because it was already October. See my logic there?
Composed over the last three years, and honed live on stage, “Glacial Medicine” is bursting with wonderfully warped and dreamlike beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 16, 2022