This was originally recorded around 2007, when my friends were playing chess at my apartment in Montreal on Parc Ave. Originally created as a drone instrumental soundtrack for some imaginary film noir picture that doesn't exist. At the time, I was obsessed with the idea of trying to make my guitar sound like a trumpet, warping it into different instruments sonically. Chess music was born in our minds that night like some black jet bombing a nameless landscape into hell as their game of chess carried on.
The recording is from a tape transfer to my computer in 2007, from this piece of shit shoebox recorder I bought at a Jewish camera store on Parc Ave for $20. The project was then abandoned after I started working on "HORROR" for Fixture Records. I've tried to clean it up as much as I can digitally, after rediscovering it on my hard drive today.
It is now exorcised into digital format from the grave.
Happy holidays mang~
FREE DOWNLOAD LINK:
Chess Music EP
(Instrumental, 2007)
Instruments:
Electric Guitar
RC-2 Loop station
Holy grail reverb pedal
Ace tone solid state amplifier
Thriftstore Sanyo Alarm clock/radio
Tracklisting:
1) Midnight Express
2) Criminal On The Run
3) Night Walker
4) Aurevoir Quebec
11 comments:
Fucking great stuff man! Thanks for the download!
P.S. got two of your singles listed on my "best singles of 2010" list!
i know santa cruz, ca is a long way from vancouver, but we'd love to see you here!
-thank johnny! might be in your hood around late feb. we should hang~
-i've never been to santa cruz. I definitely wanna do small DIY tours on the west coast next year. I'd love to go to santa cruz!
tho im sure you hate digitzing i'm SOOOOO excited to hear this, it might just become my soundtrack for NYE as i wander empty streets filming :)
yesss yesss yessss come to hong kong after your tour in the states
-RPC:
I'm acutally gonna be in Beijing on JAN 22 at D-22. And Shanghai later for chinese new year. Asia tour is in the works if we can get enough money and funding from other sources to go in next fall or by next year.
You should check out my crew in beijing:
www.rosemansionanalog.wordpress.com/
thanks for this!
just posted on your stuff on tranzcontinental.com
hope to see you if you come through detroit
-kevin
no sweat man, hope you guys enjoy it. I like detroit man, you guys have this really good band called "human eye" that I really like. I saw them in montreal when they came through. Great band.
flippin sweet!
awesome! any plans for europe? got your golden desert sun 7" a few weeks ago...but true blue is totally gone everywhere.. :S
I'm catching up on all your old posts and discovered this. Thank you for making it available! Is Au revoir Quebec an early version of The Death March?
And I second what Felix said – please come to Europe!
You are already getting great press here in Germany:
http://www.jahrgangsgeraeusche.de/2011-05-02/dirty-beaches-badlands/
http://www.auftouren.de/2011/04/05/dirty-beaches-badlands/
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