Release Date: June 24, 2014
Contact: Bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Label: Cloud Recordings
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From the mixed-up files of W. Cullen Hart comes "Mosaics Within Mosaics" by The Circulatory System, a suitcase assemblage for 26 musicians, available June 24th on limited edition double LP, compact disc, and mp3 via Cloud Recordings or immediate streaming during your next convenient lucid dream cycle. Constructed by drummer Derek Almstead from over a decade's worth of Hart's intricate recordings and experiments, Mosaics Within Mosaics is a new phase Circulatory System album, because they all are. But it's also a highly traditional interconnected/musique concrète-dappled/post-SMiLE/harmony-drenched/imagistic/collaborative home-recorded entheogenic Wall of Sound fantasia from one of the form's inventors and unceasing innovators. 

Following The Circulatory System (2001) and Signal Morning (2009), Mosaics Within Mosaics carries on the quietly audacious work of Athens, Georgia experimental pop figurehead W. Cullen Hart, co-founder of the beloved Olivia Tremor Control. The third album under The Circulatory System flag comes, as always, draped with Hart's layered paintings, a creative voice that has evolved in almost exact parallel to his music. The back of the set likewise comes sealed with the small logo belonging to the Elephant 6 Recording Co., another Hart design, and the album's credits contain many of the musicians that familiar logo has come to imply.    

Between the band's signature double-drum blasts, the mosaicscapes are detailed by a series of intimate small ensembles drawn from the extended community orchestra of Hart's longtime collaborators, including woodwind trios and quartets by Olivia Tremor Control compatriot John Fernandes (Old Smokey, Dreamboat), a wollensack balloon solo by Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), and contributions from Derek Almstead (Faster Circuits), Heather McIntosh (The Instruments), Peter Erchick (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't), Eric Harris (Frosted Ambassador), AJ Griffin (Laminated Cat), Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, Hawk and a Hacksaw), and others. 

Alongside Hart's open-hearted wonderings ("When You're Small"), Martian harmonies ("Neon Light"), comes a playfulness rarely visited since the early Olivia days ("Over Dinner the Cardinal Spoke"). With ever-shifting mixes built to highlight the many approaches to each piece, Mosaics Within Mosaics is perhaps the first album to capture the extra-dimensional scope of what it sounds like to be W. Cullen Hart. The album's 31 songs are prone to suddenly turning into songs in noun-form only, reassembling before one's ears into holographic self-revisions of themselves. All are sewn together by the title sequence of vignettes, a series of wordless Joseph Cornell-like puzzleboxes as beguiling and welcoming as anything in Hart's considerable catalogue.   

"Mosaics Within Mosaics" is a world to dive into with good headphones or from a comfortable spot (both physically and mentally) in the exact center of a well-apportioned stereo field. Arrangements spin into close detail, whirl through transparent layers of overdubs, and reveal cross-sections of drum parts, birds, tropical bells, reamplified feedback, air organ, tape loops, laughs, rocks, dripping water, kazoo, and _____. Listen closely, you might hear yourself.   

As always, The Circulatory System and their self-operated Cloud Recordings welcome all recordings of your dreams and other correspondence at PO Box 821, Athens, GA, 30603. 

Circulatory System - "Stars And Molecules"

Release Date: May 12
bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Self-Released
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Pavo Pavo - "Ran Ran Run"

May 22nd - Release  Show at Mercury Lounge w/ Sam Cohen
June 13 - Celebrate Brooklyn w/ Lucius and Luke Temple

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Release Date: May 20
bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Self-Released
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Pavo Pavo - "Annie Hall"

I breathe, each breath
I watch it rise in my chest
One more smoke and we can go
Running on adderall 
A little high, we can get so low
There’s a riptide in the middle of my soul

Careful you might grow to find
You need what you put inside
There’s a wind that pulls me away from home
Close my eyes and I hear it calling

Never mind, they believe 
We’re too old to scrape our knees
I drown in every shadow that you leave
We’ll be so wise,
When there’s nothing left
An easy weight upon my chest
Waterfall of the only things we need

Careful you might grow to find
You need what you put inside
There’s a wind that pulls me away from home
Close my eyes and I hear it calling


Running on adderall
A little high, we can get so low
There’s a riptide in the middle of my soul


Adderall

Release Date: September 18, 2015
bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Self-Released
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KINSEY is the immaculately conceived lovechild of multi-instrumentalist Nick Kinsey, whose forthcoming debut LP, My Loneliest Debut, lives “at the intersection of Bob Dylan, Wilco and Neutral Milk Hotel” (The Wild Honey Pie). Kinsey wrote, recorded, and produced the record in a chicken shack in upstate New York. Apart from the bass (contributed by The Step Kids bassist Dan Edinberg), he made all the sounds thereon. No stranger to the stage, Kinsey cut his teeth playing drums with the likes of Elvis Perkins in Dearland, AA Bondy, and A.C. Newman.

KINSEY - "Get Lost"

KINSEY - "Wide Awake"

"Destroyer" - by Kevin Morby off of 'Singing Saw,' out April 15th on Dead Oceans

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Kevin Morby - Destroyer

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First single from Meg Duffy's Hand Habits. Debut LP out Feb 10, 2017 on Woodsist Records.

"Meg Duffy, aka Hand Habits, is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Upstate New York. She has been putting her time in on the road and in the studio over the past two years with pacific northwest band Mega Bog, and the Kevin Morby Band, making an impression on everyone she comes across with her natural charisma and uncharted talent as a multi-instrumentalist. But let Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void) be her open invitation to the world to step inside and take a much deeper look into who Duffy actually is. Tracked in an Upstate New York living room, then finished in her current home in Los Angeles - it is appropriate that this album was recorded by Meg herself - for Meg, who has an acute ear for detail, has touched every corner, has seen every vision 'til its end. Because of this, Wildly Idle feels incredibly intimate, like a secret between her and the listener. It hits soft, like warm water, and before you know it it is all around you - a bath, and Meg's whisper has made its way inside you. Like many bedroom-debuts before it (Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Little Wings, Grouper)  let this be the first of many to come, for Meg has music in her touch - and this is only the beginning. But let us not look to the future now, but instead stand alongside her, our trust in her will, both humble before the void, with her first chorus as the mission statement; 'hold you like a flower, hold you like an hour glass'."- Kevin Morby

HAND HABITS - All The While

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KINSEY is the work of Singer, Songwriter, Multi-instrumentalist, and Producer Nick Kinsey who is perhaps best known for his work playing drums with Kevin Morby, AC Newman, AA Bondy, Elvis Perkins & others.

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KINSEY

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