Max Tundra offers first album in six years
Since earning the acclaim of music bloggers everywhere (see: Pitchfork) in 2002 for Mastered by Guy at the Exchange, Britain’s Max Tundra has done everything from creating some rather high-profile remixes to hosting a radio show on Resonance FM. Some six years later, the musician born Ben Jacobs is finally ready to unveil its follow up, his third full-length effort, Parallax Error Beheads You, on November 18th via Domino Records.
Described by Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire, The Last Shadow Puppets) as an album “impossibly full of ideas, seeking out every imaginable sound in the world and giving each their own curtain call,” the ten-track effort, like all his previous materials, is the creation of a Commodore Amiga 500 and $1 public domain software tracker program.
The sounds don’t emerge from the Amiga itself however; the machine is used to control various synths, samplers and the like. I look at colums of numbers all day on the screen of a black and white television; these digits relate to pitches, durations and tones. A lot of the noises on my record are real; the cello, bass guitar, drums, piano, trumpet and others are all rehearsed and played by me, but sometimes I will use realistic fake versions of these noises. Each song is recorded in a different way; drumkits are recorded on mono cassette recorders twice, then stuck together on the left and right of a mix; string arrangements are planned and then layered up; each note of an electric guitar is sampled so that it can be sequenced in ways too complicated for my fat fingers to play at full speed. And then I have a cup of tea and sing my heart out.
In support of the upcoming release, Max Tundra has a number of upcoming tour dates with Hot Chip for folks in the U.K.
Check Out:
“Which Song”
Parallax Error Beheads You Tracklist:
01. Gum Chimes
02. Will Get Fooled Again
03. Which Song
04. My Night Out
05. Orphaned
06. Nord Lead Three
07. The Entertainment
08. Number Our Days
09. Glycaemic Index Blues
10. Until We Die
Max Tundra 2008 Tour Dates:
09/20 - Luxembourg, UK @ Exit07
10/05 - London, UK @ LSO St. Luke’s
10/23 - Southampton, UK @ Guildhall *
10/24 - Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Universityl *
10/25 - Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Academyl *
10/26 - Leeds, UK @ Leeds Academyl *
10/28 - Sheffield, UK @ Sheffield Academyl *
10/29 - Birmingham, UK @ Birmingham Academyl *
10/30 - Cambridge, UK @ Corn Exchangel *
11/01 - Manchester, UK @ Apollol *
11/02 - Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow Academyl *
11/03 - Leicester, UK @ De Montford Universityl *
11/05 - Brighton, UK @ Domel *
11/06 - London, UK @ Brixton Academyl *
11/07 - London, UK @ Brixton Academyl *
* = w/ Hot Chip
Oct 10th, 2008 at 5:43 am
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