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Tycho "Awake" LP on Ghostly International
Release date: MARCH 18, 2014

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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

Capitão do Barco 
(Nei & Ali)

lyrics

O capitão do barco vai levar a gente 
lá pro fundo do mar... 

Ele ja sabe que lá é cinza 
Ele ja sabe que lá é cinza 

Sereia vai amanhecer o sol clareia a lua 
Na areia a gente se vê 
A gente se encanta 
Antes que o barco vá 

O capitão do barco vai levar a gente 
lá pro fundo do mar... 

É fim da tarde quando a estrela brilha 
Nos olhos que se emocionam te inspira 

Sereia vai amanhecer o sol clareia a lua 
Na areia a gente se vê 
A gente se encanta 
Antes que o barco vá 

O capitão do barco vai levar a gente 
lá pro fundo do mar... 

Eu faço som quando você respira 
Se a gente dança alguém sente as vidas

Acesas diz que vai amanhecer
Sol clareia a lua
Sol clareia a lua

02 Capitão do Barco

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New Order - Crystal

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Night Nurse (Gregory Isaacs) by Sly & Robbie ft Simply Red

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i will posses your heart

Best Of Labour Of Love

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The Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht (AAMU)

The Aboriginal Art Museum Utrecht (AAMU) is the only museum in Europe which is completely devoted to contemporary Australian Aboriginal art. The museum offers artists of Aboriginal origin a platform to show their work to a European public and hopes to give greater publicity and respect to this quite unknown genre. Next to calling for attention the museum also wants to inform and teach her visitors about contemporary Aboriginal art. By placing it next to modern Western art the visitor is challenged to start looking for similarities and differences and form an opinion on both artforms.

The AAMU concentrates specifically on the visual arts. However, some attention is given to other artistic expressions, music being one of them. In an educational program for youth an interactive, interdisciplinary approach towards art is given. At the Sound-Bites-Art experience one gets the opportunity to look at art in a different way with the help of an MP3-player. It is the idea that different musical genres each have their own influence on the perception of a work of art. Some attention is paid as well to the more authentic form of Aboriginal music, which is very important in the original religious culture: on demand didgeridoo workshops are offered.

This musical fragment is a song of the band Yothu Yindi. The members of this band are Aboriginals of the Yolngu tribe, coming from the northeast coast of Australia. The special thing about this band is the way they mix the specific sounds, customs and instruments of traditional Aborinigal music with elements of modern Western rock’n’roll. The result of fusion is a unique musical form, of which the source goes back for thousands of years, but which sounds modern and contemporary all the same. With this approach Yothu Yindi can be called the musical equivalent of the AAMU. 

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Paul A. Zoschke