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Heavier Than A Neutron Star

Album: Antelopesister

Released: May 20, 2008

Label: Bocumast Ltd.

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Heavier Than A Neutron Star
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General Info

Genre: Concrete / Psychedelic / Tropical
Location DENVER, Colorado, US
Profile Views: 19393
Last Login: 1/26/2010
Member Since 2/18/2006
Website www.velveteenrobot.com
Record Label ..Bocumast Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Dormir is a one-man band from Denver, Colorado - equal parts strings, circuits, and voices. 'Antelopesister' is the first album on Bocumast Records, available at bocumast.com and most online retailers (iTunes, Emusic, Rhapsody, etc). .. This Myspace page is not especially active right now because I'm spending all my energies on writing and recording; I'm always making some sort of music, whether or not it's Dormir. Currently, I have about 30 songs that are being whittled down and remolded, and I hope to have a new Dormir album late this year or early 2010. I don't know the name of the album yet, but it will be more dynamic and complex than some older stuff, and there will be some unexpected moments along the way. Until then... ..
Members
Just me.
Influences
.. Musically: Shugo Tokumaru, Brainticket, CAN, Animal Collective, Sunset Rubdown, Grizzly Bear, the Mighty Bruce Haack, Ariel Pink, Simon and Garfunkel, Spaghetti Westerns, The Books, Nick Drake, Midlake, Bert Jansch, Bibio, Fennesz, Boards of Canada, Beck, Subtle, Besnard Lakes, Themselves, Four Tet, The Kinks, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Vashti Bunyan, The Advisory Circle, Sonic Youth, Aphex Twin, The Legendary Pink Dots, Blonde Redhead, Battles, Black Moth Super Rainbow, DJ Nobody, The Raincoats, ClockDVA, Severed Heads, Fugazi, The Minders, Belbury Poly, and all my local partners-in-song.
Sounds Like
Branches and leaves and the faraway clatter of shortwave radio and 'Mutual of Omaha', interspersed with the occasional chord change. Sometimes, there is yelping. .. On recordings, I play a few different instruments: guitars, samples, synthesizers, toys, tapes, laptop, etc, and i also sing. I use a lot of production strangeness and machines in the songs, and I let them become musical elements; sometimes things are multitracked into a computer, other times they are gradually mixed down on a series of cassette tapes—anything to give the elements a distinctive aural quality. I believe in the art of audio degradation; somethings sound better when you have to exert yourself in the listening. .. Live, I often strip the songs down to laptop or ipod, supplying some rhythms and backing instruments (arranged specially for each performance). Depending on my mood, or transportation options, or venue sound capabilities, the arrangements might be lusher, or more naked, and I might play the acoustic guitar, often an omnichord, or a little synthesizer. Recently, I've been playing touch-sensitive effects pads and triggers with my feet, and that seems to work out pretty good. I'd like to one day play with giant stacks and a bunch of analogue synths, but I have only 2 hands no car, so we'll see... .. 'Antelopesister' is folky and ambient. Quiet at times, sort of bombastic at others, sometimes subtle, often not. It sounds home-recorded, and I like it. I'm always trying to write new songs, and the next Dormir recording will be different. I managed to get my hands on several vintage analogue synths recently. I've always wanted to do an orchestral album, full of strings and swells, but with Moogs and Solinas instead of cellos and violins.