Early Surf, by Axis: Sova

Early Surf

by Axis: Sova

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1.	We Turn Pale 03:13	buy track
2.	Blinding White 01:20	buy track
3.	Afflicted Taste 03:56	buy track
4.	Ask Me About My Smell 06:48	buy track
5.	Secret Hand 02:01	buy track
6.	Glass 02:23	buy track
7.	Fractal Ancestry 07:08	buy track
8.	Dictator of a Flower 02:41	buy track
9.	Early Surf 04:46	buy track

about

A collection of songs sourced from improvisations, phone recording fragments, and playful, late night spontaneity. Brett Sova made and recorded all the sounds, save for the essential and heady organ tones, which were deftly played by Jeremiah Chiu.

Sova edited, revised and gently fucked with each recording while mixing on the fly to see what type of song could be created from these archaic devices: guitars, Roland TR-66 Rhythm Arranger, and 4-track cassette recorder.

Heavy jams for light heads! Visceral fireworks lighting up the hemispheres! Fun times with torch tunes and scorch sounds! Call it what you want — Axis: Sova pulled these songs out of his head like eyeballs, fresh and round, sight damaged, with nerve endings dangling. Scrapping and scrapping the blown out amp waves, from his headphones to yours!

credits

released February 17, 2015

Recorded and Mixed by Brett Sova at Shape Shoppe, Chicago, on Tascam 488 and Tascam 424 cassette tape machines.

Brett Sova - guitars, vox, drum programming, bass
Jeremiah Chiu - organ

Mastered by Cooper Crain

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Axis: Sova Chicago, Illinois

"Some heavily blasted version of what pop could sound like on other planets." Brett Sova plays guitar and sings, Jeremy Freeze plays bass and sings, and Josh Johannpeter plays drums. This is the newest iteration of a longstanding musical idea, one that was formed by Brett as a solo bedroom-guitar-noise-with-drum-machine endeavor over a decade ago and has mutated all the way to the present group. ... more

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May 8

Outer Limits Lounge

Detroit, MI
May 9

The Government Center

Pittsburgh, PA
May 10

Alphaville

Brooklyn, NY
May 11

Johnny Brenda's

Philadelphia, PA
May 12

Beachland Tavern

Cleveland, OH

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