Sojourn

Taken from the album, Peace or Love, out 5th August. 

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Biog
“angels of light have your souls in a vice / we want to be free / we want to be loved / we want to be kissed from heaven above” - David West, Dream on Dreamer
                
When Tough Love first began putting out records, one of the guiding motivations was to release music that sounds like the music David West makes. We didn’t know it at the time, because we hadn’t yet heard of him. It’s funny how the very thing you’re looking for falls into your lap. If you don’t already know of David, and the various guises he performs under, then I’m a little envious, for you have a lot to discover for the first time. On 5th August, Tough Love will release Peace or Love, the second album to be issued under his own name. That can be either your starting point, or your continuation down a road.

The facts: Peace or Love is the follow-up to USA/Australia-based musical artist David West's 2015 cassette release, Drop Out Of Collage. Peace or Love is a collection of songs stemming from wild and free bedroom four-track cassette recordings and personal hard drive sample raiding, with contributions from various musical friends in Perth, Western Australia and SF/LA, California. West draws inspiration from free-thinking artists of the past and present on this polyphonic platter, from soft indie strumming and free soundscapes, to disco and soul-pop. West currently plays in the guitar pop band Rat Columns, synth-pop project Liberation and post-punk trio Rank/Xerox, and has been in varied acts such as Lace Curtain, Burning Sensation, Total Control and Whalehammer.

If you were feeling particularly grand, you could say that David West has created his own ecology, or you could just say he’s a very busy man. I told David over email that Peace or Love feels like an album that was made specifically for me. His reply? “It is for YOU. And YOU. And YOU. And YOU…Peace or love is the same thing - you want to be free and you want to be loved....but you gotta choose one” This is music from the margins that deserves a place in the middle of anyone's heart. 

“it's peace or love baby / you said it before / that you want it all / it's peace or love, baby” - David West, Peace or Love 

iTunes

David West - Dream On Dreamer

Dank Piñata

tape drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP8TVIeEkTM&list=PLdNW6Tm7hfWsUe6-tQ2gbu8rGGFNvDUyg&index=1

Lifelong flight

Lifelong Flight

revamp of Sun Catchers excellent original track Lifelong Flight 
https://soundcloud.com/sun-catchers/sun-catchers-lifelong-flight
 
and a big THANK YOU to them 
for letting me take liberties with their work.

And Feathers (Lifelong Flight by Sun Catchers)

R.I.P. Glenn Branca.  

For this weeks junto project I ran a synth patch through a guitar amp about 8 times.  On each pass through I altered the settings of the patch and the amp.  I then took the results of the 8 tracks and layered them at multiple speeds/tempos.  This resulted in about 64 layers of sound.

More on this 334th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Disquiet Junto Project 0334: Mass Branca / Record a massive multi-layered tribute to the legendary guitarist-composer) at:

https://disquiet.com/0334/

Major thanks to James Britt for contributing this Junto project prompt.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

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There’s also on a Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Gabriel's Horn [disquiet0334]

Own direction (demo)

Music by Paul Gallagher and collaborators

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