Dan Oxenberg, Bear Galvin + Friends (Pillow Mt. Conspiracy) ‎- (2019) Early Abstractions. Vol. 1 LP

 

Feeding Tube Records ‎– FTR454 

Three:four Records (Switzerland) and Feeding Tube Records (USA) are pleased to announce the release of Early Abstractions, Vol. 1 by Danny Oxenberg (Supreme Dicks), Bear Galvin, and Friends (Pillow Mt. Conspiracy). "Early Abstractions, Vol. 1" is the follow-up to their 2016 release "Late Superimpositions" (three:four records), and contains recordings made in New York, Western Massachusetts, and Los Angeles…some old, some older, some relatively new, some borrowed, some blue. The album was produced by Maxime Guitton, with original art by Hippolyte Hentgen and design/layout by Darryl Norsen.

Of their previous release "Late Superimpositions", Sing Sing wrote: “Ce que ce duo flou ramène de telles pérégrinations est comme la carte brûlée d'un territoire authentiquement sauvage où mélodies radieuses et dissonances plus ou moins consenties, bruit lymphatique et lyrisme enroué, mélancolie indélébile et profusion d’épiphanies s'entrecroisent, s'échangent et se relancent pour mettre en branle quelque chose comme de la grâce…une raison supplémentaire de croire que les fantômes sont parmi nous et qu'ils n'en finissent plus de mourir d'amour.” (Translation: This hazy duet brings back from such peregrinations what sounds like the burnt map of an authentically savage territory, where radiant melodies and more or less agreed upon dissonances, lymphatic noise and hoarse lyricism, indelible melancholy and profuse epiphanies cross, substitute and rekindle each other, setting in motion something that could be grace…one more reason to believe that ghosts are among us and that they can’t stop dying of love.). Marc Masters (The Out Door: 200 words) wrote: “Subdued and patient, these simple, guitar-weaved tunes keep tilting to the side, wobbling away from the straight path into the weeds of something more interesting. They’re also just plain gorgeous…”