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{"id":7594639360250,"title":"James Krivchenia \/\/ Blood Karaoke LP","handle":"james-krivchenia-blood-karaoke-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・ミネソタのコラージュ作家James Krivcheniaが、2022年4月に同国実験音楽家Derek Baron主宰レーベルReading Groupからリリースした最新レコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e大量のサンプリングを用いた情報過多コラージュ・IDM〜コラージュ・ポップ 〜コラージュ・テクノ14曲を収録。まるでAIが作曲したかのような不穏な空気に終始包まれています。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3321485088\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Reading Group releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading Group:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJames Krivchenia (b. Minnesota, 1988) is a many-armed sculptor of music. Known primarily for his roles in Big Thief (as drummer and producer), Mega Bog (as longtime engineer, co-producer and percussionist) and his various other groups and session work (ranging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom the experimental improvisation of Causings to the likes of Taylor Swift) Krivchenia has been quietly building strange musical worlds in parallel with his own experimental records. Krivchenia’s solo works are tableaus of his conceptual particle colliders: interlocking idea and process, of determinism and chance, of abstraction and concreteness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis previous solo works, You’re Useless, I Love You (Reading Group, 2016), No Comment (Left Door Tapes, 2018), and A New Found Relaxation (House Arrest, 2020) show an increasing clarity of intentional framing while never sacrificing the material joy of making music. You’re Useless decoded the pop palate through a mutation of the sounds for a strangely unsettling sugar rush; No Comment worked through heavier concepts, culling from the audio of body camera footage of gun skirmishes from wars around the world uploaded to the internet; and Relaxation was composed from over hundreds of tiny fragments of “internet spa radio”\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e processed through Krivchenia’s magic box of sonic transformations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlood Karaoke has perhaps the widest palette of any of Krivchenia’s work to date. Driving through a near-constant barrage of sound and information, Blood passes through zones of hardcore techno, poptimistic kitsch cruisers, glitched out quasi-grooves, and deeply weird YouTube ambience. Composed mostly from hundreds of tiny samples of unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators (think Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, etc), mangled midi (fed into Krivchenia’s rig of synthesizers and pedals) and then meticulously layered and collaged, Blood often sounds like an experiment in accepting the disparate sounds and feelings of our world, online and otherwise, and trying to find the poetry contained within the chaos.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBold combinations abound and the result ends up being a baffling translation. As if an alien were composing a mixtape as a misguided offering of understanding to the humans of 2022. The laughter it provokes is as much an effect of the juxtapositions of its musical worlds as from the strangely uncanny seriousness of AI-generated poetry––we laugh\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebecause we’re not sure what’s real. The driving, skittering pulse, the crooked arrow through time, at least, seems real. Beyond that, much of the most memorable fused signifiers flash up and scatter before they can be fully grasped or located. A private dance record appropriate to the chaotic, stimulant, glorious weirdness of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : James Krivchenia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Reading Group\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-04-25T13:15:42+09:00","created_at":"2022-04-22T10:34:28+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["house","lp","monooto","reading group","strange beats","techno \/ house"],"price":299000,"price_min":299000,"price_max":299000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":42672757833978,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"James Krivchenia \/\/ Blood Karaoke LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":299000,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka1_5397b448-8ccd-48a8-80c6-1da41ac08828.jpg?v=1650591270","\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka2_9ac34587-c245-40a7-a33e-b8e4c817cc68.jpg?v=1650591270"],"featured_image":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka1_5397b448-8ccd-48a8-80c6-1da41ac08828.jpg?v=1650591270","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":29587767755002,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka1_5397b448-8ccd-48a8-80c6-1da41ac08828.jpg?v=1650591270"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka1_5397b448-8ccd-48a8-80c6-1da41ac08828.jpg?v=1650591270","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":29587767787770,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.33,"height":902,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka2_9ac34587-c245-40a7-a33e-b8e4c817cc68.jpg?v=1650591270"},"aspect_ratio":1.33,"height":902,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/tobirarecords.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/ka2_9ac34587-c245-40a7-a33e-b8e4c817cc68.jpg?v=1650591270","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・ミネソタのコラージュ作家James Krivcheniaが、2022年4月に同国実験音楽家Derek Baron主宰レーベルReading Groupからリリースした最新レコードです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e大量のサンプリングを用いた情報過多コラージュ・IDM〜コラージュ・ポップ 〜コラージュ・テクノ14曲を収録。まるでAIが作曲したかのような不穏な空気に終始包まれています。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3321485088\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/rg\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Reading Group releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReading Group:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJames Krivchenia (b. Minnesota, 1988) is a many-armed sculptor of music. Known primarily for his roles in Big Thief (as drummer and producer), Mega Bog (as longtime engineer, co-producer and percussionist) and his various other groups and session work (ranging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003efrom the experimental improvisation of Causings to the likes of Taylor Swift) Krivchenia has been quietly building strange musical worlds in parallel with his own experimental records. Krivchenia’s solo works are tableaus of his conceptual particle colliders: interlocking idea and process, of determinism and chance, of abstraction and concreteness.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHis previous solo works, You’re Useless, I Love You (Reading Group, 2016), No Comment (Left Door Tapes, 2018), and A New Found Relaxation (House Arrest, 2020) show an increasing clarity of intentional framing while never sacrificing the material joy of making music. You’re Useless decoded the pop palate through a mutation of the sounds for a strangely unsettling sugar rush; No Comment worked through heavier concepts, culling from the audio of body camera footage of gun skirmishes from wars around the world uploaded to the internet; and Relaxation was composed from over hundreds of tiny fragments of “internet spa radio”\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e processed through Krivchenia’s magic box of sonic transformations.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlood Karaoke has perhaps the widest palette of any of Krivchenia’s work to date. Driving through a near-constant barrage of sound and information, Blood passes through zones of hardcore techno, poptimistic kitsch cruisers, glitched out quasi-grooves, and deeply weird YouTube ambience. Composed mostly from hundreds of tiny samples of unwatched YouTube videos found through random online generators (think Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentations, video game walkthroughs, old local news clips, etc), mangled midi (fed into Krivchenia’s rig of synthesizers and pedals) and then meticulously layered and collaged, Blood often sounds like an experiment in accepting the disparate sounds and feelings of our world, online and otherwise, and trying to find the poetry contained within the chaos.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBold combinations abound and the result ends up being a baffling translation. As if an alien were composing a mixtape as a misguided offering of understanding to the humans of 2022. The laughter it provokes is as much an effect of the juxtapositions of its musical worlds as from the strangely uncanny seriousness of AI-generated poetry––we laugh\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebecause we’re not sure what’s real. The driving, skittering pulse, the crooked arrow through time, at least, seems real. Beyond that, much of the most memorable fused signifiers flash up and scatter before they can be fully grasped or located. A private dance record appropriate to the chaotic, stimulant, glorious weirdness of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : James Krivchenia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Reading Group\u003c\/p\u003e"}