Jeremy Young - "Amaro" LP

Montreal-based electroacoustic composer Jeremy Young's new record is more like a suite of meaningful multi-disciplinary duets than an addition to his growing catalog of pure solo material. Yet it centrally documents an iterative, systems-based approach to making music that Young has been developing and refining through live performances and improvisations in his studio for close to 3 years. This sonic "system" is not modular but still tactile, performable and tourable, and includes: 3 individual oscillators (sine, square, triangle) tuned microtonally by hand in real time and filtered, amplified surfaces and objects that make up the pieces' rhythmic foundations, (found) tape loop fragments and EMF signal captured and routed across the tonal and textural signal paths.

Amaro includes contributions from Montreal artists (Deanna Radford, Markus Floats & Ida Toninato) and others based in New York & beyond (Vito Ricci, Dolphin Midwives, Pauline Kim Harris, Tomonari Nishikawa & Johannes Bergmark). The cover visuals come courtesy of frequent collaborators China Marsot-Wood and Thaïla Khampo. It's an experimental suite of sonic material, adventurous and not over-produced (a trap that Young feels guilty of falling into with his trio Sontag Shogun); neither ambient nor noise, synthesized yet performed in real time as if it was an instrumental record.

Jeremy Young, on oscillators, found 1/4" tape, captured radio & EMF signal, amplified surfaces & objects, composition by trial & error, late nights, weird thoughts, glasses of amaro on ice.
cargocollective.com/jeremyyoung
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Featuring:

Tomonari Nishikawa, on 16mm camera & projector (A1)
www.tomonarinishikawa.com
Dolphin Midwives, on harps (A3)
dolphinmidwives.bandcamp.com
Markus Floats, on synths & voice (A4)
markusfloats.bandcamp.com
Vito Ricci, on bicycle wheel instrument & story (A5)
www.vitoricci.com
Pauline Kim Harris, on violins (B1)
www.paulinekimharris.com
Johannes Bergmark, on platform of amplified objects (B3)
www.bergmark.org
Deanna Radford, on word events (B4)
deannaradford.net
Ida Toninato, on voice & tiny pine cones (B5)
www.idatoninato.com
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Recorded and mixed in Montreal in 2019.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Cover artwork by China Marsot-Wood @ made-by-china.net
Back cover illustration by Thaïla Khampo @ thailakhampo.net
"Mythy" film by Charles-André Coderre @ charlesandrecoderre.com
"Electricity Over Mirabel" video by moody alien @ moody-alien.weebly.com