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Long associated with the kind of experimentalism in pretty much all music genres to exist in the New York region, Brooklyn is also home to the bustling prolific collective known as Pas Musique. As the band brace for the release of their new long-player ‘Amateur Radio’, we present you a sneak preview of the latest output from this outfit, who are always pushing the envelope in terms of what creative frontiers they explore in their music.
Earlier, the band shared the tracks ‘Don Cheadle Superhero’, a smooth flowing futuristic motorik journey, as well as the glitchy and eerie audio-visual trip for the lead track ‘Ancient Scottish Legend’.
These six new electronic, experimental krautrock-influenced tracks. Among them is a collaboration with Jeanne-Marie Varain, artist and daughter of FAUST‘s Jean-Herve Peron, on ‘It’s a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl’. Since the album is being released on white vinyl and digitally via NYC-based label Alrealon Musique, this will be the first time that this Faust cover, originally released on the 2019 ‘KRAUT! Covered’ compilation curated by WFMU’s DJ Scott Williams, will be available on vinyl.
The ‘Amateur Radio’ LP is mirrored by the same broadcasting term, using the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radio-sport, contesting, and emergency communication.
This album was inspired by the collective’s U.S. tour in 2019 and recorded shortly after at Pas Musique headquarters in Brooklyn and mixed by All Real Sound. The tracks are dense and textured, mixing in field recordings captured during that U.S. tour.
Pas Musique was founded by Robert L. Pepper in 1995 as a solo project around abstract sound. It has since morphed into a collective that has gone through many variations of experimental, electronic iterations. Today Pas Musique is comprised of Jon V Worthley, Michael Durek, Jesse Fairbairn and Robert Pepper, having performed in 18 countries and collaborated with many great musicians, including Faust, Rapoon, ZEV, Philippe Petit, HATI, Chester Hawkins, Jim Tuite and many more. Pas Musique have
This album follows up ‘The Phoenix’ LP (2019) and ‘Inside the Spectrum’ (2015), the title track of which was released by Wire Magazine for its ‘Wire Tapper’ compilation. 2018’s ‘Composited Reality’ was a collaboration with Rapoon, based on field recordings from the USA, UK and Indonesia.
On October 1, the ‘Amateur Radio’ LP will be released everywhere, including Spotify and Apple Music. It can be ordered directly from the artist on limited-edition white vinyl or as a digital download via Bandcamp at https://alrealonmusique.bandcamp.com/album/amateur-radio-alrn134
TRACK LIST
1 Charlies Lament
2 Don Cheadle Superhero
3 It’s a Rainy Day Sunshine Girl
4 Ancient Scottish Legend
5 That’s What They Said
6 Elderly Women On Black
CREDITS
All songs written, recorded and produced by Pas Musique
Performed by Jon V Worthley, Michael Durek, Jesse Fairbairn and Robert Pepper
Art by The Glue Mill
Mastered by All Real Sound
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