Leaving

Waiting


"Two hours of feeling depressed because you are floating alone through deep space. Sometimes travelers stop by to yell at you and keep you company."

This is a mix I made for Oligopolist records. These are songs and artists that have directly influenced the music I make as drowse. There are so many other sounds I love that haven’t yet played a role in the formation of my music, and so many who have that I wasn’t able to fit in this mix (Can, The Haxan Cloak, Red House Painters, Portishead, Bedhead etc…). I hope you get as much out of these songs as I do.

Songs: 
1. o my heart—mount eerie with Julie doiron and fred squire 
2. unyielding abyssic hatespawn—whatfunlifewas
3. october all over—unwound
4. dandelion—boards of canada
5. one half—julianna barwick
6. chimeras—tim hecker
7. innocence and wrath—celtic frost 
8. cut their grain and place fire therein—weakling 
9. alien observer—grouper
10. remember—oneohtrix point never
11. numb—andy stott
12. iron galaxy—cannibal ox
13. rarefaction—italics
14. bell—swirlies
15. recollections of the wraith—shabazz palaces
16. who told you this room exists?—belong
17. pea (codeine cover)—nadja
18. don, aman—slint
19. travel is dangerous—mogwai
20. the only cure, the only remedy—ludicra
21. main titles—vangelis
22. sometimes—my bloody valentine
23. operations—duster
24. miranda—slowdive
25. the glow—the microphones

sway (drowse mix oligopolist records)

06 Returning

04 awake

03 (you)

02 Meaning

01 Melt

(Originally released as part of the 2015 Oligopolist sampler (https://oligopolistrecords.bandcamp.com/album/olgp-sampler-2015) 

Covering My Bloody Valentine is probably taboo, but it felt necessary. In June (2015) I traveled to Zamora, Spain bringing my dad's old acoustic guitar, my laptop, and two microphones. In Zamora I met Dulce. One night I watched her sing on a rooftop and her voice made my throat close up, swelling with melancholy. She soon moved across the country and invited me to follow. I stayed with her in Calafell, a small beach town near Barcelona. Here we spent time playing music together over the drone of the Mediterranean; we discovered a mutual love of My Bloody Valentine. "Sometimes" is my favorite song so I suggested we record our version of it—she sang into one microphone while I played guitar into the other, forming a tangible sound memory. After listening to our recording she asked if I would fill up the empty spaces. Alone on the train back to the other coast—from where I would be flying home—I attempted to do so. With my throat once again constricting I absorbed the emptiness by creating new sounds from the guitar, the laptop and her beautiful voice.

sometimes (calafell) with Dulce Membibre

A patch for the Moog Subharmonicon. I played the filter live.

Buchlaesque & Resonant Moog Subharmonicon Patch DRY

The same patch as before plus an Eventide Timefactor on the FilterPong setting.

Buchlaesque & Resonant Moog Subharmonicon Patch W: Eventide Timefactor

drowse is my project. It is processed guitar music. It is whatever I need it to be.

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