Front man, Patrick, is a real powerhouse on stage only amplified by his talented Savages who enhance his persona. When not performing, Pat enjoys the finer things in life, such as reading about indigenous cultures and funding successful start-up campaigns. Without his extensive resources and seemingly endless wealth, this EP would not be here today. Please enjoy our luscious tunes as we hope to bring fertility upon barren ears.

The Savages:
Andrew Mowbray - Drums/Facial Hair
Ari Pluznik - Bass/Vocals
Josh Stine - Guitar/Vocals
Grace White - Keyboard/Vocals/Trumpet

L’Avenir is the dark synth project of veteran electronic musician and sound artist Jason Sloan. Known throughout the space and ambient music scenes for his contemplative electronic soundscape work for close to two decades; Sloan founded L’Avenir in 2011 to explore his long time love of dark synth and minimal wave music created purely from analog and vintage equipment.

While releasing over a dozen solo solo electronic ambient albums and E.P.’s under his own name, Sloan has played solo all over the US, Canada and Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University, STEIM in Amsterdam and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series, one of the country’s oldest continuing ambient and electronic music series.

Sloan is a Professor and Chair of the Interactive Arts department along with being the founder and director of the Sound Art program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Jangly and glamorous, Bottled Up’s freaked-up art pop is a smoothie of frontman Nikhil Rao’s key obsessions: Suburban Lawns, italo disco, Alan Vega, Television (the band), television (the appliance), Andy Warhol, the entire decade of the ‘80s, Prince’s particular shade of plum purple, his old Tascam 8-track, Factory Records. 
 
Indian-American by way of Oakland and LA, Rao’s the dude-who’s-seen-it-all meets dude-about-town. A sound designer and audio engineer by trade - professionally schooled in the art of film and video game scoring- Rao’s a man informed first by the sort of his journeying one’s got to do when faced with the darknesses of addiction and a twisty adolescence in and out of religious cults. For all of its gleaming guitars and glossy euro-flavored synthwork, Bottled Up’s filled with the mental residue one’s gets after asking the void to fuck off.
 
Co-led with Colin Kelly - a disciple of D.C.’s avant-analog scene - joined by Michael Mastrangelo and Beth Cannon on dueling guitars, and supplanted by Rao’s wunderkid brother, Rohit, on acid-jazz-does-punk drums, Bottled Up conjures the sort of psycho-potpurri-spirit that’s only given to the sort of band that’s able to conjure a vision of the things they love, the mountains they’ve overcome, and mutate it all into something you can dance to. 

Artwork for Crystal LP by Daya Ramesh
Artwork for BU2 by Allison Demoss

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