figure eighter - people's last words are often insignificant
The temperature and atmospheric moisture change in the course of the planets revolution around the sun. A long hot summer day, the coolness of the night never arrives. A front blowing all the water vapor away, leaving crisp and cold blue sky. All those taking this ride have feelings and emotions that morph right along with every rotation and through one orbit around the star. Slowed down, invigorated, or somewhere in the middle, Figure Eighter has channeled these variations into their newest composition titled people's last words are often insignificant. A thick haze dissolving rhythms into the droning void. The sonic cycle repeating or has everything reversed? This is a solid aural landscape, that gets pleasantly wobbly. Listen, because we are all being hurled through space with the same momentum. These are the sounds we share together.
Douglas Dulgarian and Nick Shattell are the two musicians who are Figure Eighter. This is their dive into experimented sound over the course of one year. In the super tech world of today, this entire composition could come from a fifteen year old's laptop at the foot of the bed, but it did not. Doug and Nick used a more real time analog approach. Sure there is some digital smoothing, but the spirit of these sounds is strong and fully alluring. In the liner notes Douglas writes, "Why even put it on a fucking record". If these are the everyday noises surrounding us, that is a good question. Here is "a" answer, maybe not "the" answer... In writing about music, there is a lot of music listened to. Many times this happens around friends and family. All to often you hear, "turn that off", and many other times you hear, "that's not that good, i could do that".... But you don't. Douglas Dulgarian and Nick Shattell did, they spent a year working on this composition and its fucking good. The big revelation... you can make a record of ambient noise and people will like it, more than you think. Five tracks divided by season titles as well as the opener titled solstice. The mood is balanced with spring and autumn lighter and filled with a bit more harmony than the more introspective summer and winter. Both of which push a bit to the eerier places. Figure Eighter was fueled by both skill and love, the resulting quality displays these aspects in all respects.
Released on Fuzz Records out Albany, New York. There are some different options for the physical release. Three different vinyl versions and a cassette edition as well. All editions are currently available from the label. Douglas writes a really great description of how this composition came to be. This is included on a full size insert included with the vinyl.
Douglas Dulgarian and Nick Shattell are the two musicians who are Figure Eighter. This is their dive into experimented sound over the course of one year. In the super tech world of today, this entire composition could come from a fifteen year old's laptop at the foot of the bed, but it did not. Doug and Nick used a more real time analog approach. Sure there is some digital smoothing, but the spirit of these sounds is strong and fully alluring. In the liner notes Douglas writes, "Why even put it on a fucking record". If these are the everyday noises surrounding us, that is a good question. Here is "a" answer, maybe not "the" answer... In writing about music, there is a lot of music listened to. Many times this happens around friends and family. All to often you hear, "turn that off", and many other times you hear, "that's not that good, i could do that".... But you don't. Douglas Dulgarian and Nick Shattell did, they spent a year working on this composition and its fucking good. The big revelation... you can make a record of ambient noise and people will like it, more than you think. Five tracks divided by season titles as well as the opener titled solstice. The mood is balanced with spring and autumn lighter and filled with a bit more harmony than the more introspective summer and winter. Both of which push a bit to the eerier places. Figure Eighter was fueled by both skill and love, the resulting quality displays these aspects in all respects.
Released on Fuzz Records out Albany, New York. There are some different options for the physical release. Three different vinyl versions and a cassette edition as well. All editions are currently available from the label. Douglas writes a really great description of how this composition came to be. This is included on a full size insert included with the vinyl.
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