"consider art as a way of experiencing a fusion of 'pleasure' and 'insight.' reach this by impurity, or multiplicity of levels, rather than by reduction." - Öyvind Fahlström
You can now download "the glowing city" from nyc awesome shop Other Music. The download format is 320kbps mp3s... definitely the best sounding mp3.
Here's what other music says about the disc:
" EXCLUSIVE ADVANCE RELEASE! Sunset is the folk/psych/pop brainchild of Austin's Bill Baird and his new album is meditative, dramatic, electronic, and evocative of a pre-"Guero" Beck. As the nom de plume suggests, the general mood of the record finds its footing somewhere near Baroque melancholia, but the dramatically epic nature of the project and its variable prowess of instrumentation will leave you feeling undoubtedly triumphant. NPR calls him "beautifully lo-fi," and I call him the best thing I've heard in months. "
Download it here for $9.99 (whole thing) or $1.11 per track. If you want the hard copy with full artwork and poster, you can buy that here
We have a show this Thursday, at Emo's with the Kadane Brothers who played in this pretty cool band called Bedhead. They put out a record on Trance Syndicate that I bought... "Beheaded..." a slow burning beauty to them.
In case you haven't heard, we are putting out another album in a few weeks. That's three albums since December. That's gotta be some kind of record. And we're a good way towards another. "The great unclogging," is how I will one day refer to this phase of my life.
The album was originally created as two separate albums, but economics and timeliness made me decide to release all of the stuff at once. Plus I liked the idea of releasing an album just 3 seconds shy of the absolute limit for a compact disc. Something pleasingly contrary about it, especially in the age of the mp3.
We will be selling this album at Thursday's show. Come on out so you can grab a copy before the release date.
So I hope to see you this Thursday at Emo's, around 10pm. We will be selling our 3 latest albums, "Pink Clouds," "Bright Blue Dream," and "The Glowing City." And playing songs from the next one.
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"Moebius," the 7th track on "Bright Blue Dream" ("BBD" from here on), was originally composed as a musical collaboration between myself and Peter Simonite. We were trying to create a musical and video loop that begins and ends in the same place, and can thus be repeated infinitely in an "art gallery" type setting.
I thought an interesting approach for its inclusion in "BBD" would be to make sure that it could be repeated infinitely, a nod to the track's origin and original intention.
Thus, if you played "Moebius" in "repeat" mode on a c.d. player, it could play infinitely without any interruption or skipping. A sound installation I placed in the middle of a pretty straightforward pop album.
Unfortunately, this intention has been completely missed by every single reviewer, and some folks seem to be even angered by the repetitiveness of the track. Well, folks, that's why the good lord invented the "skip" button.
The original intention was to launch a music video site which would help contextualize "Moebius," and also extend the artwork of the album. We have experienced some delays on this, but the site should be up soon.
"T.V.s that were his eyes," the track following "Moebius," is incidental and accidental. In order for "Moebius" to repeat seamlessly, the beginning and end of the track needed to be at full volume. For the beginning of the track, that was simple... just a cross-fade at the end of "Bright Blue Dream" (the song) which has several minutes of drone at the end anyhow. But how to manage the transition at the end? Either "Moebius" would end and the song would just dramatically turn off, or there could be a fade. Since the fade couldn't be at the end of "Moebius" and I didn't want the fade as the beginning of "Old Sandy Bull Lee," Nick (the mastering engineer) and I decided to make the fade its own track. A strange 8-second (I think that's the time) transition track. I suppose I could've left it unnamed and maybe that would've helped figure out what the track was for... but I couldn't resist naming it. The title "T.V.s that were his eyes" is an obscure reference (maybe not so obscure for some) that also makes reference to the album cover.
