New York-based musician, Smoota's "Pandemic Threesome" of releases explores sexuality in the post-COVID world.

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EPISODE #504

SMOOTA - PHEROMONES (2018)
(Body To Body Records BTB003)

www.smoota.com

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Written, produced, and recorded by Smoota at White Fur Underground, Brooklyn, NY

Smoota: Vocals, Trombone, Roland SH-2000, Kawai SX-240, Korg MS2000, Wurli, Clavinet,
Juno-106, Mellotron, Casiotone, P-bass, Drum Programming, Percussion, Heavy Breathing
Lisala Beatty–Elsa Cornish–Amma Whatt: Backing Vocals & Handclaps
Yvonne Ambrée: Additional backing vocals (That Body Of Yours/Ballbuster) 
Adriana Molello: Violins
Violet Russo: Fake Orgasm, Moans & Groans

Mixed by Scotty Hard in Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Kevin Blackler at Blackler Mastering, Brooklyn, NY
Album photography by Paige Craig
Cover design by Smoota

℗ & © 2018 Smootzilla Music (ASCAP) All rights reserved.

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“Music for the sensually inclined.” – Buzzbands LA
"Hyper-sexed sensual alt-soul grooves." – Time Out NY
"How the libido sounds." – The San Diego Reader
“If you’re ever feeling down about anything at all, we would recommend listening to music by Smoota. The lyrics to his songs will make you think, love, and smile before its end." – Grungecake
"Combines the slinky DIY funk grooves of Shuggie Otis with the offbeat, trippy, psychedelic stoner charm of James Pants, all topped off with a sly pervy streak that winks toward Serge Gainsbourg and the P-Funk mob.”  – Other Music

Smoota’s new album PHEROMONES is an arousing soak in the hot tub of your sexual imagination. Inspired by the warm and sensual sounds of 70’s soul, Smoota’s follow-up to his 2013 debut FETISHES is a risqué exploration of the modern sexual landscape. A New York City musician who has worked with TV On The Radio, Run The Jewels, Sufjan Stevens, Steven Tyler, Aaron Neville, and many others, Smoota performed all the music on Pheromones himself, adding only backup vocals, strings, and a (fake?) orgasm from a friend in Australia. With a unique mix of honesty, curiosity, and sly humor, the album puts both a dip in your hip and a smile on your face. Touching on the polyamorous urge, happy S&M relationships, taboo lust, erotic intimacy, and more, Pheromones will turn out the lights, liberate your mind, arouse your body, and then make you breakfast in the morning.

'Hyper-sexed sensual alt-soul grooves' (Time Out NY). 

'How the libido sounds' (San Diego Reader). 

'One of the year's most surprising records' (Other Music).

www.smoota.com

Recorded over several years in his basement studio in Brooklyn, Smoota's second LP will continue his unique musical exploration of sexual desire and its complex intersection with love. Written and performed almost entirely by himself, Smoota’s follow-up to his 2013 debut, FETISHES will continue his one-of-a-kind blend of honesty, humor and wordplay to shine a light on the beautiful and often mind-boggling displays of lust, devotion, happiness and pain we employ to both fall in love and get it on.

An in-demand musician in New York, Smoota has toured for years with art rock legends TV On The Radio. He has also recorded and performed with a wide variety of artists, including hip hop sensations Run The Jewels, rock legend Steven Tyler, EDM phenoms Pretty Lights and Griz, New Orleans superstar Aaron Neville, indie icon Sufjan Stevens, and soul queen Sharon Jones. 

But for his own music, Smoota draws inspiration from his deep collection of soul, funk, disco and R&B records. Filled with sounds from rare 70s and 80s synths and drum machines, his sensual and funky grooves are a fresh take on the slow jams and dance classics of sex crooners like Marvin Gaye, Serge Gainsbourg, Willie Hutch and Smokey Robinson.

But while sonically the music pulls from the heyday of groovy music, lyrically Smoota writes from 2018 and beyond, addressing ideas more often examined in literature and European art films than in music. His new album will address the polyamorous urge, happy S&M relationships, taboo lust for one’s in-laws, the complexity of the female orgasm, the connection between masturbation and intercourse and more.

06 Pheromones

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