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12" black vinyl LP in folded full-colour risograph cover (with inner paper sleeve and outer plastic sleeve).
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Includes unlimited streaming of Eight Places (For Four Instruments)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Music for imagined places.
Two songs for piano, two songs for synthesizer, two songs for double bass, and two songs for acoustic guitar; played by a man in a room in an apartment in a city that he has since moved away from and returned to :)
A large animal dying peacefully of old age in the middle of the night, a tiny bar that throws fun parties, Caleb Deschanel's cinematography of Southern Ontario in Carroll Ballard's FLY AWAY HOME (1996), the "American" Southwest, things like that.
2020-2021, Toronto.
credits
released May 15, 2023
Composed, performed, recorded, and mixed by Bram Gielen.
Mastered by Evan Tighe.
Artwork by Joële Walinga.
Design and layout by Thom Gill.
LP label design by Daniel Warth.
Thank you:
Mary Grattan Gielen; Frank Gielen; Sophia, Isaac, and Fez Gielen; Adam Harnest; Joseph Shabason; Stan Shabason; Dean and Laura Samaras; Joële Walinga; Daniel Warth; Steph Tonietto.
supported by 5 fans who also own “Eight Places (For Four Instruments)”
we had the pleasure to see you in May 2023 (Casio jazz guitar for the win) and again at pop Montreal, two wonderfully unique shows for an already unique band. mjohnstone
supported by 5 fans who also own “Eight Places (For Four Instruments)”
This is a most exciting surprise bag of unusual songs, each of them thoroughly different from the other ones. But they have one thing in common: They are ingenious. It's not easy to find a drawer where to put this music in. I'm reluctant to use the term "experimental", because this can mean anything, and nothing as well. Out of the established genres, "alternative rock" probably fits best, but this music is so alternative that it blows up the confines of the genre. In my collection, I'm tagging music like this as "avantgarde", to express that it's somehow ahead of the usual listening experiences. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Smooth, sophisticated pop with neoclassical flourishes from the Berlin-based duo of Fabian Till and Birk Buttcherey. Bandcamp New & Notable May 2, 2024