Drunk & Stupid boasts 19 songs overflowing with insanely catchy melodies, endearingly off-kilter arrangements, and a strangely satisfying blend of the divine and the absurd.

Meet Raymond Byron and the White Freighters and their record Little Death Shaker. Here’s to the new.

The album feels like the product of a new friendship, the tender walking-on-eggshells moments, the celebration, the growing respect, the laughs, and the straight-up moments of wild-hot synchronicity and shared architectural creation.

As the twelfth year of the twenty-first century dawned, the economy was still in the tank, jobs were still scarce. The masses needed some good medicine, something a lot like Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices.

The result of Shannon’s new approach in album-making is a gritty, fluid, and more accessible record than her previous work. Call it pragmatic pop: optimism balanced with the sharp-edged reality of life in 2012.

Music for Moving in Slow Motion is about the slowing, halting, and reversing of the directional flow of linear time.   It is about the significance of the possibly infinite space that exists between any two instants.  It is about experiencing symmetrical time.  At some moments the proverbial arrow for a single event is subtly (or not so subtly) manipulated, while at others, multiple events are frozen and superimposed onto each other, creating a hyper-simultaneity out of what was once sequence, thereby eliminating it.   Time is treated as space, as an elastic solid that can be twisted and moved in any direction, and there is an attempt to find the smallest temporal unit, if it exists at all.

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Alfred Brown is a composer and audio engineer living in Buffalo, NY.

CREDITS:

Alec Spiegelman: Rhodes
Alfred Brown: Guitars, Lamellophones, Voice, Electronics, Auxiliary Percussion, Ocarina, Harmonica, Piano, Chief Engineer
Ashley Chassé: Violin
Christopher McDonald: Glockenspiel
David Flaherty: Vibraphone
Eric Heveron-Smith: Baritone, Co-Engineer
Frank Wartinger: Cello, Co-Engineer
Hans Glick: Cello
Jeff Stewart: French Horn
Jeremy Thompson: Pedal Steel
John Valenti: Voice, Electronics, Miscellaneous Magic
Katherine Cogdill: Clarinet
Kim Tice: Accordion
Lazar Davis: Toy Piano
Leanne Hanson: Trombone
Page de Camara: Violin
Raymond Lam: Clarinet
Ryan Ledebur: Trombone, Tuba
Stephanie Glick: Violin
William Brown: Trumpet, French Horn

All Pieces composed by Alfred Brown.  Special Thanks to Select Sound Studios in Buffalo NY, Cuddle Magic, Einstein’s  Dreams ensemble, The Cosmonaut Union, and Dan Baker.  Extra-special thanks to Elizabeth Brown.

This album was inspired by the commercial work Effacer does in audio mastering. Effacer figured that different noise reduction processes and audio restoration tools that are usually used to remove clicks/noises from tracks could be used to exaggerate different effects in my music. He started taking a sound with reverb, then use the dry version of that same sound, minus the reverb, and use that as the noise print for the noise reduction algorithm.  Thus by removing the source sound, a ghostly sound (reverb) would be left behind. Effacer came up with a formula for this to create further sounds and textures: (source sound + effect) – (source sound) = artifact of effect. By putting these sounds together into tracks, add several years, and these experiments resulted in an album.

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Ero Gray was raised in a tent in the Sierra Nevada foothills, lived most of his adult life in San Diego, CA, and Brooklyn, NY, and now resides in Portland, OR. He is a founding member of the bands The Nylon-Coated Cats and Rad Unicorn & the Ecstatic Virgins; has released electronic music under the aliases Professor Kermit and Golden Poultry Error, has recorded and remixed Soul-Junk, Therefore, Bogs Visionary Orchestra, and the Castanets, and plays the ongoing role of producer Papa Alabaster in the Land of a Thousand Rappers project. He adores his wife Suzanne and prefers to always be surrounded by music that he doesn’t really understand.

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The sound of The Ones Who Wait indicates a new maturity in Denison’s musical career, a subtle sense of confidence in his voice and music.