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Chill

floating in a bed of dreams

Synthesthesia

iNsTrUmEnTaLs

Artist: Giant Claw
Album: Mirror Guide
Format: Digital / Vinyl
Release: May 7 or 14, 2021

Music by Keith Rankin
Visual art by Ellen Thomas and Keith Rankin
Mastered by Starkey

Artist Statement:

I have been recording Mirror Guide off and on since my previous album Soft Channel came out in 2017, working on pieces in my spare time while co-running Orange Milk Records and trying to make a living as a freelance visual artist. 

I wanted Mirror Guide to feel less frenzied than some of my previous music, and decided to use a hyperreal string sound as a lead instrument the rest of the sounds could orbit around. I improvised long stretches with the digital instrument and picked moments that elicited some emotional response in me as the foundation for each piece. It helped to imagine a small synthetic ensemble playing every additional part, considering the choices an individual might make if they were focused primarily on their instruments’ role within the group. 

In my improvised sessions I also gravitated towards what I called a ‘bouncing ball’ rhythm - later described to me as an exponential rhythmic sequence. After thinking about how genres often center around a core rhythmic pattern I adopted the sequence as another consistent feature for the album. 

In the past I’ve cut up pop acapellas as vocal elements, but on Mirror Guide decided to work with several artists I had come to know from three very different music scenes. I traveled to Pittsburgh for a few days and recorded with vocalist Tamar Kamin (from the band the Van Allen Belt) generating hours of improvised and lightly prepared melodic material that I later edited into several songs. I also incorporated more poetic almost spoken word vocals from Japanese musician and photographer NTsKi and a small segment of screeching moans from fellow Ohioan Diana Gruber. 

More generally I found inspiration from artists like Paul Lansky, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and the range of emotion in the music of Geinoh Yamashirogumi Orchestra, best known for scoring the Akira soundtrack which is a longtime favorite. I was also encouraged to complete Mirror Guide through conversations with the late composer, tape collage pioneer, and friend Noah Creshevsky, who gave me several boosts of confidence after hearing early versions of the music.

Giant Claw - Earther

Twenty-six

https://open.spotify.com/track/4rBkZwz9xio7y5XjCaMBpi

Rhetoric On Sublime

Autistic Genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQNFEvm5Nk

VHS (Video In Description)

Rattle & Roar

We Found A Home

Chord Memory

Cross That Line

The Sad Robot Sings

I'm happy to present one of my tunes from "Forever Online"!!! It was a big trouble to make this release and hope you will like it!!!
https://balloonbear.bandcamp.com/album/forever-online
http://www.lowtoy.com/portfolio/balloonbear-forever-online/

Digital Detox

Choro do impasse (João Luis e Zelia Fonseca)

Thingy I wrote yesterday. Special thanks to SweetsParade for the incredible artwork! https://twitter.com/SweetsParade

FTM: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=4815
NSF: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=4816
MIDI conversion: http://2a03.free.fr/dl.php?file=4937

[VRC6] welc.moe (Original)

DIGITAL PARADISE

Be Positve https://dr-7.bandcamp.com/track/ice-cream-almost-gone

~Ice Cream~ (Almost Gone)

☏ＤｒｅａｍｏＦＹｏｕ☏

Instrumentals ya know by Jazz E beats...C.O.M.rad (Est.2007)

Chill instrumentals

Scotty

prod. by https://soundcloud.com/falls-2

artwork --> http://www.kathyylee.com/


download.

pure earth (prod. falls)

Kong Cudi

spotify

room

Spirit In The Temple w/ Arzon

Used One Of - https://soundcloud.com/raisi-k-the-raisinman 
Legendary Chop samples

NEW BEATTAPE COMING OUT SOON for the year of 2017
plz stay toon

YAH

Pink Outfit

"What is the value of something that won't last forever?" 

~ fleeting moments ~ 

a compilation featuring songs two minutes or less

USBs here: https://deskpopmusic.bandcamp.com/album/fleeting-moments

Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0WAAYVB1LZQrFAfxDMdX6U

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Graham Kartna on...
Soundcloud ~ https://soundcloud.com/grahamkartna
Twitter ~ https://twitter.com/GrahamKartna
Bandcamp ~ https://grahamkartna.bandcamp.com/

~ fleeting moments ~

~ USB ~

Graham Kartna - Morning

7038634357 is the alias of Neo Gibson (b. 1995), a musician born and raised in Arlington, VA. They currently live in New York City. Previous releases include 2017's LYSE on Brooklyn's Pastel Voids, and 2017's MY VISION OF THE SUN, a self-released EP. More background and contact information can be found on their website ive-been-waiting-all-my.life.

XPETAL is a loosely narrative 5-track EP. It explores the inner soundtracks of suburban anxiety comedowns, and dreams for futures of radical justice.

Composed/mixed by @neo_petal
Mastered by James Xu
Artwork by Tavi Lee

XPETAL

7038634357 - Sugar Armor

Lyrics:
Someday we'll be in museums
Fossils for someone to collect
We'll have minds to change and lives to affect
We'll be remnants of our past so people won't forget

Someday we'll turn into dust
Places we used to love will be rust
In another life I won't know your name
In another life things won't be the same

Friend do you fear tomorrow like I do?
What also scares me
Is not seeing you
Will you still be by my side
It will be okay
Just close your eyes
It'll be okay just close your eyes

Today you asked me for a meaning
Why do we do this to ourselves
We get messed up we make bad decisions
But better with you than with someone else


Mixed by Mickey Petralia
Mastered by Howie Weinberg

Lyrics and Music by Frankie & Marion

Chord Memory

Warm Binary