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“Subterranean”, the first single(s) and opener of my 8th album Le jour et la nuit du réel, out on September 22nd on Thrill Jockey Records and available for a special preorder here or here, is made of 3 movements that evolve both harmonically and sonically from a group of chords and a set of settings on the Moog Music Inc. Grandmother going into the MF-104M Analog Delay. On the album the pieces are separate, but they will flow into one another when I play them live, which gives me a nice opportunity to show you how the synth settings evolve from one movement to another. This is a partial, condensed version of the 3 movements, which actually makes it easier to see and hear the group of chords that reoccurs over the 3 movements. Because life is unfair, I actually prefer the mix on this live version than on the album – damn!!!

Please listen with headphones or an amp

Also I am launching my own Youtube channel, partly out of being annoyed by how poorly my videos do on Facebook (as opposed to photos), and partly because I think that one day both Instagram and Facebook will disappear or morph into something else and without even really thinking about it, I’ve actually put all my video content through those platforms, so this is an effort to reclaim those videos. All videos will be in HD, so more detail too. Please suscribe if you feel like it (the video above is the first one I’m uploading on the channel and I will work on playlists soon to gather older videos)!

Grandmother notes:

ARP is on, the order of notes really matters to give the appropriate feel on Mvt I, with Mvt II and III being more forgiving and allowing more of a hands-down-as-if-to-play-a-chord (Grandmother being monophonic, you can’t play chords as such – part of the fun for me on this album was to play with this limitation in as many creative ways as I could think of).

The Stepped Drone patch (from the Grandmother manual) only enters on the 3rd movement via the Attenuator, turned all the way down in full counterclock wise position to provide inverse modulation.

Patch: Sample and Hold into Attenuator into Mult – sent to 2 destinations: Osc 2 Pitch In and Filter Cutoff In.

My US and European tour start on 22nd September, I am looking forward to playing for you so much!!! All details and tickets on my Songkick or here.

PS: clothes made by myself, color-coordinated to the album artwork by Andrés Gómez Servín because I’m crazy that way. Cropped Hadley top (Grainline Studio patterns) in bamboo silk from Raystitch, self-drafted shorts in upcycled indigo cotton.

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