2014

beach hut

maurice duruflé - "tantum ergo"

kyubey - car ride

Hollowshale, Promunturia

artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

Elemental Fusion

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11 - plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - III. seafloor spread

09 - plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - I. transform fault

07 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - III. first frost

3+ Years in the making, 'FUSION REBORN' sees That Andy Guy & Shady Monk teaming up once again to revisit their 'FUSION DANCE' mixtape (originally released in 2021 via 'DESKPOP' - R.I.P. 🙏), and this time around, they've gathered more of some of their most talented pals this side of the digital fusion Mississipp' to have them bring their own unique takes on each track, with some taking fusion to the extreme and others taking their remixes in entirely new directions!

That Andy Guy, Shady Monk - Stacked Neatly In A Pile (ft. Anton Corazza) [Miles Morkri Remix]

That Andy Guy, Shady Monk -  Press On [Tobokegao's Y2K VGM Vibes Jungle Remix]

That Andy Guy, Shady Monk -  Kimono Nights Pt. III (ft. Seme Di Stella, Novadrops) [Kidd Luna Remix]

That Andy Guy, Shady Monk - GETCHU (ft. r u s s e l b u c k) [Suleiman Remix]

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That Andy Guy, Shady Monk - GETCHU (ft. r u s s e l b u c k) [Suleiman Remix]

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