band made of water 09-02-2024 Horseshoe 08:02 Western Star 04:54 Military 09:13 Adrift 05:00 Missing 09:32 Dogfish 05:05 Grinning Man 08:54 Julianangel 08:07 Gunpowder 06:37 CD by Slow-Fidelity |
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Band Made Of Water is the first full-length album by Blair. Released online February 2024. CD available summer 2024. Primary recording in Baltimore during winter 2021. Post-production in Silver Spring from spring-autumn 2022. Additional recording on Western Star in The Hague. Additional recording on Julianangel in Louisiana. This was certainly one of those things a lot of people (including the entire band) thought would never see the light of day. The entire process started when the very idea of the band was formed while living in Idaho Springs at the Blair Motel for six months, however no song-writing took place until i was living in Five Points where the first batch of piano songs were cooked up in two weeks leading up to their debut downt the street at Mercury Cafe. Same Thing from the Dark Woods album is the only song from this batch that had been tracked and released until now. Military and Grinning Man were also written in Colorado. Fast-forward to bunkering down during the pandemic in Little Italy, (of all places) and tracking the backbone of these songs that have been eating away at me, finally done with it the process of re-teaching the same tunes without "evidence"...slow-forwarding to finally finishing the project in SS. So in the end... this picks up from where Dark Woods "left off" (???) This is further in that ambient direction but more structured. To be 100 with you, i could not say anything more cliche. This album has samba jazz, electronic club, and stoner metal. Trying to get back to that pop mentality we started with but maybe it is stretched-out overly-psychotic catasprophe? Field recordings from Assateague Island and Gunpowder Falls. instruments: electric organ, grand piano, ensoniq zr-76, emu esi-4000, korg polysix, electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, drum kit, hand percussion, vocals, alto saxophone, coronet, accordian genre: psychedelic rock, stoner metal, electronic, ambient |
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dark woods 27-01-2020 Initiation 04:31 Smokesong 08:05 Dark Woods 04:42 Shadows 08:07 Same Thing 09:12 CD by Slow-Fidelity |
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Dark Woods is the second album EP by Blair. Released online January 2020. CD available summer 2020. Primary tracking in York County, PA during february 2019. Post-production in Silver Spring during summer 2019. These songs are longer and mostly instrumental but more experimental and some of us trade the instruments. The same farm as the marathon session that yielded Heart, our recording equipment in a rural environment but this time adding some new toys, toying with more ambient-central ideas. instruments: electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, acoustic guitar, ensoniq ZR-76, emu esi-4000, vocals genre: post-rock, stoner rock, folk, industrial, goth pop |
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heart 03-04-2018 Doubts 05:03 Moviestar 02:12 Depression 05:32 Heart 05:56 Chosen 03:36 cassette by Slow-Fidelity |
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The first Blair release is the EP called Heart. Released online and on cassette spring of 2018. All tracking and production at a farm house in York County, PA during winter 2018. The sound of feeling delusionally fresh but hot like two punk bands burning to the ground. Keeping that fire going all night while trying to "find the juice" (like trying to get on the radio). Which did happen! So the B-side of the tape has a few of the same songs performed on WMUC. The other few same-but-different songs filling in the holes are from a show at Rhizome. instruments: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, emu esi-4000, vocals genre: indie rock, pop-punk, goth pop, shoegaze |
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