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Bastardgeist - Shift by brainlove
Bastardgeist is the brainchild of Chicago-based musician Joel Midden. Through layers of kalimba, processed vocals, circuitous samples and found percussion he crafts atmospheric songs of singular vision and ambitious design. Bastardgeist's self-titled debut explored the politics and isolation of sexuality through abstract lyrical fragments, ethereal washes of ambient texture and frank, heart-wrenching melodies. Midden's newest singles, an AA-side comprising of two new songs "Shift" and "Winter Fog", mixes warm, autumnal synth lines that meld into gently insistent earworms, and marks an important point in Bastardgeist's development.
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"A bed of stimulating sonics... detailed yet uncluttered with a captivating beauty." - Shook Mag "Bastardgeist (Joel Midden), comes equipped with the remarkable ability to display a breathtaking sonic exploration with only the most abstract of ingredients." - Music Fans Mic "We were dumbfounded by how Bastardgeist produced his strange polyrhythmic experiments. We know now, they're due in no small part to a traditional kalimba and his own, unique ethereal voice" - WNUR Radio, Chicago "With the ripped and distant loops of singing children (are they singing?), I imagine some futuristic archaeologist finding only that 1-second clip and them playing it over and over, trying to rebuild the past. But I suppose that's what I'm doing, playing this song over and over, trying to fabricate a story to this gentle 3-minute sample, of a moment, of a day, or a month, however long this feeling lasted." - Said The Gramaphone |
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