Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the new La Sudar album dropped this summer: The Debussy Loops. Check it out, listen, download, whatever! We’ve also got a new Songwriting Prompt Contest that’s live! Win $50 bucks! Details here.
Here’s another la sudar demo. Another beat created with one of the hundreds of Bandlab loopers.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the new La Sudar album dropped this summer: The Debussy Loops. Check it out, listen, download, whatever! We’ve also got a new Songwriting Prompt Contest that’s live! Win $50 bucks! Details here.
Here’s another la sudar demo. Another beat created with one of the hundreds of Bandlab loopers.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the new La Sudar album dropped this summer: The Debussy Loops. Check it out, listen, download, whatever! We’ve also got a new Songwriting Prompt Contest that’s live! Win $50 bucks! Details here.
Here’s another la sudar demo. Another beat created with one of the hundreds of Bandlab loopers.
Also, it’s 9/11, so you should probably go listen to The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski. We’ve got tickets to the big TDL 20th anniversary show tonight at Riverside Church, and will spend most of the day thinking about how the fuck they’re going to recreate these pieces with electronics, synths, a string section, a horn section, and two percussionists, and how amazing it’s going to sound. The man himself can’t be there for health reasons, but this figures to be a once in a lifetime experience regardless. Maybe we’ll write a review next week!
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the new La Sudar album dropped this summer: The Debussy Loops. Check it out, listen, download, whatever! We’ve also got a new Songwriting Prompt Contest that’s live! Win $50 bucks! Details here.
We’ve also got a bunch of news and fun stuff on deck as we get ready to celebrate our one year anniversary! You all know what that means. That’s right: I didn’t get anything done for Audio Saturdays this week. AGAIN. So enjoy this ~r a r e~ la sudar demo “new can day”.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the new La Sudar album dropped this summer: The Debussy Loops. Check it out, listen, download, whatever! We’ve also got a new Songwriting Prompt Contest that’s live! Win $50 bucks! Details here.
We’ve also got a bunch of news and fun stuff on deck as we get ready to celebrate our one year anniversary! You all know what that means. That’s right: I didn’t get anything done for Audio Saturdays this week. So enjoy this ~r a r e~ la sudar demo “Jax Face Jazz”.
New La Sudar! Stream below or purchase on Bandcamp!
just in time for your summer vibes~
NEW LA SUDAR! drops 6/22/21
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I’ve been wanting to make a record like this for a long time.
I’ve been working on writing and composing in the ambient space for a few years now, with mixed results. Listening back on the La Sudar stuff I’ve put out over the years in anticipation of this new record, I’ve found some of it fun, some of it interesting, some of it bloated, and some of it unlistenable. It’s been educational. When working on a piece, the urge to tinker, to add, to dress up the music can be overwhelming. But when I’m able to let that go, and get out of the way of the music, it can lead to some spectacular results.
The best thing, however, about getting into ambient music, and starting to think about what I might want my ambient music to sound like, was being able to browse active ambient, drone, and experimental artists releasing music around the world right now on sites like Bandcamp. Bandcamp makes finding new sounds really easy through its tags; it has expected ones like ‘drone’ and ‘ambient’ but also more intriguing ones like ‘plant music’ and ‘musique concrete’ that allowed me to scratch very specific itches I hadn’t been aware of.
While I’d always loved jammy, spacy music (bands like Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, The Velvet Underground, and Phish have all been favorites since college or before) I didn’t start specifically seeking out ambient music until I bought a synth back in 2015 or so and started to become intrigued by the idea of writing in that space. The first stuff to really blow me away was a series of pieces called The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski. I found it transcendent in a literal way, almost more of a painting than music, a true four dimensional work of art. It made me want to put out a true looping project one day, but I could never seem to find the right music to loop.
Then one day a few months ago, I was listening to an LP of Debussy Preludes (Books I and II) when it began to skip. A lightbulb went off in my head. I grabbed my phone and held it up to the speaker and hit record. When it had cycled a few times I hit stop. The audio file I’d captured was maybe three seconds of actual music, and the sound of the skip. But I slowed it down, sped it up, reversed it, reverbed it, distorted it, stretched it and turned it inside out, and before I knew it I had more loops than I knew what to do with. I’m still working on it. There will probably be a Volume 2, unless I get sidetracked by this new snippet I have from when my Chopin record skipped last week.
So this was a fun record to make. I hope you enjoy listening to it. I’d been wanting to do a homage to Basinski’s loops for years, so this feels like an actual accomplishment. It releases on Bandcamp Tuesday June 22, just in time for your Summer vibes. If you want to know more about it just hit me up at info@sunshineandwind.com.
If you’re a follower of the Audio Saturdays column here, you know that for the past couple week’s we’ve been exploring the music of early 00s indie band Trousers. It was a lot of fun revisiting that old material, but now that the album is finished we’re kind of at a loss for what to do next. While we mull over some ideas, we’re going to go back to what got us here, at least for the time being.
Going to drop some new la sudar music June 5, maybe drop the first single next week – who can say? But there’s been a whole lot going on in the la sudar world and it’s long past time to give you a taste. Here’s a sample of an outtake – not anything I used, but part of something I used, looped, slapped around and dressed up.
As far as the actual music that’s coming, see the picture below for a hint about the main source of inspiration…
If you’re a follower of the Audio Saturdays column here, you know that for the past couple week’s we’ve been exploring the music of early 00s indie band Trousers. It was a lot of fun revisiting that old material, but now that the album is finished we’re kind of at a loss for what to do next. While we mull over some ideas, we’re going to go back to what got us here, at least for the time being.
Feeling pretty unfocused in a lot of my work lately. I’ve got three or four different projects I’m trying to run with at once and not really getting anywhere with either of them. I’m loathe to shelve any of them, but I’m tired of being pulled in several different directions.
This particular audio track is an excerpt of a larger thing, which I plucked out and toyed with a bit. Given my failure to see the larger picture with some of these sound collages, I’m hoping that by zooming in I can discover just what about them is not working, or figure out a better way to present them. I leave you to judge just how successful I am at this.
There’s a separate music project I’m working on, unrelated to this except that I’m using this to avoid it (the other project). It’s been a frustrating week, hoping to rally this weekend, or at least catch up on sleep.
If you’re a follower of the Audio Saturdays column here, you know that for the past couple week’s we’ve been exploring the music of early 00s indie band Trousers. It was a lot of fun revisiting that old material, but now that the album is finished we’re kind of at a loss for what to do next. While we mull over some ideas, we’re going to go back to what got us here, at least for the time being.
For the last couple of weeks we’ve been doing some entry level explorations into field recording, and while the results are mixed, there does seem to be some promise in the idea of taking field recordings and composing some ambient music around them. That’s not what we’re doing in today’s selection, “Astoria Sound College #2” though- here we broke out some samples from a recent twitch stream and combined them with some bird chirps we got from our last field recording expedition.
We’d love to hear from some of you field recorders out there, especially the musicians among you, to discuss how you’ve integrated the two into your art, to see how one has informed the other.
Sunshine and Wind 