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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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CD/LP/DIGITAL

artwork by:
ISO50

For nearly a decade, Tycho has been known as the musical alias of Scott Hansen, but with the release of Awake – his second LP for Ghostly International – the solo project has evolved into a three-piece band. Relating closer to post-rock than ambient soundscapes, the record is situated in the present, sounding more like Hansen than drawing from his influences. “This is, in many ways, the first true Tycho record.”

Following 2011’s Dive LP, the San Francisco-based designer toured extensively, and with a full band on stage, his sound coalesced into a percussive, organic whole. Zac Brown (guitars, bass) rejoined Scott on the road for this tour, but it was the particular addition of Rory O’Connor’s live drumming that ultimately sent Hansen back to the studio with a more precise vision. “After the tour, I decided that I wanted to capture the more energetic, driven sound of the live show on the next album,” Hansen recalls. Bringing musicians into Tycho’s creative process was a step towards expanding his own songwriting and advancing the project beyond its current sound.

In a cabin near Tahoe last winter, Zac and Scott began fleshing out the structure of the new record, but it wasn’t until they set up shop in the hills of Santa Cruz with Rory that it all fell into place. “It crystallized the vision of how the drums would come to the forefront on this record,” says Hansen. The sound was much more stripped-down and concise with more organic instruments in the fold. Songs like “Montana” and “Awake” are a departure from Tycho’s previous material – unique to the group effort poured into the songs on the new record – while “See” and “Dye” echo ideas from previous works, bridging a middle ground between the old and new. Working with Count Eldridge, who also engineered Dive, the team could fixate on the pulses that Tycho might previously layer under synthesizers and exhume them with distinct bass and guitar patterns.

Also known for his design work as ISO50, Hansen’s visual and sonic efforts have dovetailed throughout the course of his career. “This is the first time in my life I've dropped everything to focus on one artistic pursuit,” notes Hansen. Previous Tycho releases came to fruition when an amalgam of songs were nearing completion, but Awake is where music becomes the focus and true expression becomes the result.

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Awake

My Morning Jacket - Honest Man 12/29/2012

The Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. band performed live for 88.1 KDHX at the Larry J. Weir Center for Independent Media in Saint Louis on February 16,2014. Audio by Dan Kinney. Discover more great media at http://kdhx.org

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.  "If You Didn't See Me(You Weren't on the Dance Floor)" Live at KDHX 2/16/14

Pretty Lights-If I Could Feel Again

Jillian Edwards - Daydream

The Wolves (Bon Iver)

Mumford & Sons - Awake My Soul

Cousins (Vampire Weekend Cover)- Mumford & Sons

Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man

"The Sun" by Portugal. The Man (Album: The Satanic Satanist, 2009)

“Again, it’s all 1987 to 1993 and that was so much a little kid’s mind working in all daylight during the summers and all darkness during the winters. That’s just total sci-fi. That’s so Fantastic Planet and Light Years and all the cartoons I watched when I was little. You end up just looking up at the stars for 18 hours a day. It really gets your imagination going. Everything that we did on this album lyrically was so much fun for me to do because it was so easy to step into when I was 10 years old.” 

"The Sun" by Portugal. The Man

 Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. 

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" - The Band (Live)

Up From Below

Janglin

MMJ cover Elton at last weekend's Forecastle Festival

My Morning Jacket - Rocket Man - Forecastle 7/14/12

My Morning Jacket live at Okonokos. One of the best live bands ever and one of the best performances from that whole live set. Free Download.

My morning jacket - Dondante

A cover i made on "Fifteen fathoms counting" a long time ago, Feel free to listen and comment and w/e.

The mix is crap and unmastered.

Fifteen fathoms counting

14th track off 'Miracle Mile' 
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Golden Light

6th track off "Miracle Mile"
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Now You See Me

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I could have lied (The Red Hot Chilli Peppers)

AC016: Feist - Open Season

Release Date: April 25, 2006 
Feist's Open Season features additional music and honed hidden gems that have up to now, been left hanging in suspension... remixes and collaborations from GONZALES, MOCKY, APOSTLE OF HUSTLE, THE POSTAL SERVICE, K-OS, FRISBEE'D, READYMADE FC, JANE BIRKIN, DO RIGHT, AND VV. From intimate demo and acoustic versions of songs, to dance and rare groove remixes, collaborations with other singers, covers of her material and even songs Feist recorded that didn't originally make it on Let It Die, these creations have finally found a home. 

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