#sam prekop

[garadinervi]

Tortoise, Tortoise, Thrill 013, Thrill Jockey, 1994. Cover Design: Sam Prekop

#graphic design #music #music album #geometry #cd #cover #tortoise #sam prekop #thrill jockey #1990s

[musicollage]

The Sea And Cake — The Fawn. 1997 : Thrill Jockey.

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#rock music #post rock #indie rock #the sea and cake #1997 #thrill jockey #archer prewitt #sam prekop #1990s #1990s rock

[dvey]

#sam prekop #john mcentire #a ghost at noon #music

[trevlad-sounds]

Ambient drift day.

Sam Prekop-Stations Parallel-00:00

There Is Another System-Montre-Moi le Fichier-04:24

The House In the Woods (Pye Corner Audio)-Information Dust-06:00

Polypores-Great And Secret Knowledge-14:55

Sulk Rooms-Inhabitants-18:10

36, zakè-Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Stage 5)-26:49

https://pitp.bandcamp.com/album/stasis-sounds-for-long-distance-space-travel-ii

Scanner-Wing Pinger 02-31:55

Sebby Kowal-Blessed With Desire-36:24

Music For Sleep (Andrea Porcu)-Destini No.1.4-41:18

Cat Tyson Hughes-Soft Fruits-43:38

Swansither-Always A Smile-45:03

Orphean Vault-Stargazers-50:36

#sam prekop #there is another system #interocitor records #the house in the woods #pye corner audio #ambient #instrumental #sleepwithme #nerdsleep #nowlistening #Orphean Vault #Swansither #Cat Tyson Hughes #Music For Sleep #Andrea Porcu #Sebby Kowal #Scanner #36 #zakè #Sulk Rooms #Polypores #Werra Foxma Records #WFR SubClub #Past Inside the Present #rohs! records #Neotantra #Woodford Halse #ECSTATIC #Interocitor-Records

[dustedmagazine]

Sam Prekop and John McEntire — Sons Of (Thrill Jockey)

Photo by Mike Boyd

Sons Of by Sam Prekop and John McEntire

On Sam Prekop’s last solo album, 2020’s Comma, the Sea and Cake front man combined his enthusiasm for modular synth explorations with a strident melodic sensibility (in my Dusted review I praised the album’s “balance of cosmic spaciousness and rhythmic crunch”). On Sons Of he’s joined by his Sea and Cake bandmate John McEntire, who’s also a long-standing member of Tortoise, a talented drummer, and a prominent producer who’s worked with bands such as Stereolab and Jaga Jazzist. What began as an impromptu live collaboration between Prekop and McEntire became a more immersive project, involving editing live improvisations then adding overdubs.

Sons Of comprises four tracks totally nearly an hour of music. It’s consistently surprising how well Prekop and McEntire strike a balance between riding a groove and nudging their parts into gradual evolution. This is the kind of music where you rarely notice how much it’s transforming during its runtime until you think back to how a track began. “A Yellow Robe,” in particular, evolves in an almost covert way across its 23 minutes. The squiggly synth textures initially seem like a permanent part of the song’s fabric, only to gradually fade out of the picture to make way for contrasting parts. Closing track “Ascending By Night” is especially affecting, its dystopian synth pads soaring across the album’s dependable bed of intricate beat work and colorful melodic patterns. 

There’s a definite sense of exploration throughout the record, counterbalanced by a dependence on reliably satisfying synth and drum machine sounds. Though opening track “A Ghost At Noon,” which comes from one of the duo’s first run of live performances in 2019, runs to a comparatively succinct eight minutes, there’s a clear basis for ongoing collaboration, beyond the bounds of Prekop and McEntire’s other projects. Such clear chemistry and inspired interplay will hopefully lead to future releases in the same vein. Anyone with a penchant for classic-sounding ambient electronica with a kosmische bent will find plenty to nod along to here. 

Tim Clarke

#sam prekop #john mcentire #sons of #thrill jockey #tim clarke #albumreview #dusted magazine #sea and cake #tortoise #improvisation #electronics #kosmiche

[theeverlastingshade]

Favorite Albums of July 2022

5. Jazz Codes- Moor Mother

Essentials: “Rap Jasm” ft. Akai Solo & Justmadnice, “Dust Together” ft. Wolf Weston & Aquiles Navarro, “Thomas Stanley Jazzcodes Outro” ft. Irreversible Entanglements & Thomas Stanley

4. Hellfire- black midi

Essentials: “Sugar/Tzu”, “Welcome to Hell”, “Dangerous Liaisons”

3. God’s Country- Chat Pile

Essentials: “grimace_smoking_weed.jpeg”, “Why”, “Anywhere”

2. Sons Of- Sam Prekop & John McEntire

Essentials: “A Yellow Robe”, “Crossing At the Shallow”

1. Renaissance- Beyoncé

Essentials: “Break My Soul”, “All Up in Your Mind”, “Virgo’s Groove”

#beyonce #sam prekop #john mcentire #chat pile #black midi #moor mother

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#sam prekop #post rock #indie rock #pop #us indie #music #Spotify

[postambientlux]

• sam prekop + john mcentire • sons of • bit.ly/sPjM-sSo

#sam prekop #john mcentire #bandcamp #ambient #music #2022

[voreltheeaglelover]

Two for the collection.

#sam prekop #max richter

[ireallylikealbumart]

Sons Of [2022] - Sam Prekop / John McEntire

#music #albumart #sam prekop #john mcentire #cats

[wildoute]

#Sam Prekop

[laszonasabisales]

Sam Prekop and John McEntire - Sons of

#Sam Prekop #John McEntire #Spotify

[felipcastillo]

https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/sons-of

#Sam Prekop #John McEntire #Sons of

[dvey]

#prefuse 73 #sam prekop #last night #music #Bandcamp

[trevlad-sounds]

Drop by for some nerd lounge sounds in G minor.

#polypores #concretism #Pye Corner Audio #Tony Rolando #Tornado Wallace #Sense #RX-101 #surprise chef #sam prekop #whomadewho #Frank Wiedemann #Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan #Onom Agemo & The Disco Jumpers #Salvatore Mercatante #Wojciech Golczewski

[dustedmagazine]

Douglas Andrew McCombs — VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<6NDR7<<< (Thrill Jockey)

Photo by Mike Boyd

VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<6NDR7<<< by Douglas Andrew McCombs

Doug McCombs founded Brokeback in 1995 as a way of stripping back his sound, side-stepping the saturation of a full band experience in favor of focus and austerity. The bassist/guitarist retained some of the signifiers of his other projects – namely Tortoise – in the Brokeback sound, but really homed in on his own playing. He never stopped leveraging collaborators, whether it be Noel Kupersmith, his Tortoise bandmate John McEntire, or Stereolab’s Mary Hansen (may she rest in peace), and McCombs eventually made Brokeback a full band, but the project was his to shepherd.

This quirkily-titled album — it comprises the symbols found on a passport or a visa — is McCombs’ first under his own name. It goes beyond the original Brokeback ethos and truly distills his oeuvre into its component parts: acoustic and electric guitar, and the Fender Bass VI (the bass equivalent of a baritone guitar). There is minimal input from collaborators, but their contributions really shine alongside McCombs’ string workouts. He enlisted Sam Prekop and drummer John Convertino (Calexico), quite possibly one of the most versatile and magnanimous percussionists of the day, to join him on “Two to Coolness,” a multi-part suite that kicks off with a processed string workout. What sounds almost like an exercise in synthesizer wrangling eventually relents as McCombs unfurls a haunting electric guitar solo. He weaves notes and chords, resonance and silence, into a crepuscular vista that hangs enigmatically against the skyline. Eventually Prekop’s subtle synth flourishes and Convertino’s understated brushwork usher in a more optimistic air that closes out the piece. 

McCombs lets “Green Crown’s Step” roll in on a cascade of acoustic guitar chords and melodies. Its relatively sparse yet instinctive logic serves to unveil his playing style in the absence of effects and other electronic trickery. When the fog evaporates, a bright blue sky appears, and McCombs is there to provide the soundtrack. The album concludes with “To Whose Falls Shallows,” another suite incorporating multiple sections. Like the opening number, the piece begins with McCombs in solo mode. This time, he deploys a Morricone-esque twang rather than a heavily processed mewl, evoking Tortoise in the process. His Brokeback bandmate James Elkington adds synth and percussion, lending an expansive flair to McCombs’ already sprawling vocabulary. The piece is vast and surreal, like the never-ending highways of the United States. McCombs has spent most of his career chasing the horizon, but with this record’s minimalist bent, it’s clear his gaze is now shifting closer to home.     

Bryon Hayes

#Douglas Andrew McCombs #VMAK<KOMBZ<<<DUGLAS<<6NDR7<<< #thrill jockey #bryon hayes #albumreview #dusted magazine #tortoise #chicago #brokeback #bass #electric guitar #acoustic guitar #sam prekop #john convertino