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| HEY!TONAL | Kcraze Experimental supergroup HEY!TONAL is publishing today a remastered version of single "Kcraze" to announce the double vinyl release of their first album via conceptual label Computer Students . /// STREAM TO THE SINGLE VIA — V13 (North America) — New Noise (France) — Idioteq (Czech Republic/in english) — Pretty in Noise (Germany) — Damusic (Belgium) — Art Noir (Switzerland) — Muzikalia (Spain) Hey!Tonal is the first album by HEY!TONAL, a project helmed by the guitarists, multi-instrumentalists and sound designers Mitch Cheney (Rumah Sakit, Sweep the Leg Johnny) and Alan Mills (Chiisai-oto). Each member constructed the album instrument-by-instrument between 2006 and 2008 over a vast geographical area from NYC, Chicago, Florida, San Diego and Nantes, France. Main collaborators included Kevin Shea (Storm & Stress), Theo Katsaounis (Joan of Arc), and Dave Davison (Maps & Atlases). Mitch Cheney initially conceived HEY!TONAL as a project to be called "Drummers' Perspectives", and that working title sums up its ethos. He became inspired to write melodies based on the drumbeat being the starting point of the composition, opposed to the other way around. A providential meeting with Alan Mills meant another collaborator would try his hand at the resultant rhythmic and melodic tangle. The basic concept for their compositional process stemmed from Cheney's experience with television editing. They manipulated all the catalogued sounds as if they were visual elements. Hey!Tonal is a striking record, full of delicate incongruities hidden in the music; happy accidents were meticulously given purpose during mixing, malleable drums and guitars intertwined with a myriad of improvised and shaped sounds. The overall impression is of some oblique explanation to an unsolved mystery. The song "Kcraze" is the third track on the album and it displays most of the different facets and contours of the release. Shimmering notes melt together mesmerizingly, building up the foundation of the song, while stereophonic guitars emerge from nowhere and hypnotic drumming break into the progression. Lead by droning electronic distortions, the listener is guided into the complication of a song that mixes tension and innovation with excellence. In 2009 the album was released by Africantape in CD format; now Hey!Tonal has been remastered and pressed to vinyl for the first time. From today it is available for preorder at the following link https://cmptrstdnts.com/hey-tonal/ write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |