Mercurial melange of ambient, classical, computer music and new age jazz impulses from Portland-via-Chicago’s Dominic Voz
Flanked by avant players and vocalists, including Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), Patricia Wolf, Éléonore Rimbault, and Francesco Botello among others, Voz spins a fine web of influences into thizzing arrangements that keen from spasmodic bouts of hyper-jazz and spangled ‘tronics a la Kirk Barley or Second Woman (‘Real Lean’, ‘Oxydcodone’), to more congealed, viscous passages of jazz fusion in its titular parts, thru to something like Lifted meets SND at Laurel Halo’s gaff (‘Dan Ryan’), nestling filigree clarnet/modular touches by Jonathan Sielaff in ‘City Currach’, and letting all his circles/colours bleed and run most impressively on the 12 minute landscape of ‘Home’.
“"As far back as I can remember, I have been obsessed with cities. As a child, I was fascinated by their richness and mythology – the romance of cities, which is so ubiquitous across the American psyche. No doubt aided by the lore of countless films and photographs, I grew up yearning for an identity filled with grit and relevance that a city life seemed to provide. As an adult social worker and city dweller, my fascination morphed into a focus on the social arrangements and contestation produced in urban settings. 'Right to the City' is my own way of unraveling these ideas through a process of fractured storytelling; some of the songs are meant as imagined ethnographies of the people dispossessed and marginalized in cities while others are vignettes meant to soundtrack a besieged urban existence – a visceral immersion into the warring sounds of the city. They are decidedly not “protest songs”; they are my love letters to, and nightmares of, Portland and Chicago over two fraught years, told through characters from every corner of my life. I ripped samples of riot munitions and street chants from television news and Youtube, recorded police sirens in the street, enlisted friends to play cello and clarinet and to recite fragments of poems, and experimented with a half dozen forms of synthesis. In the end, I tried to make something that molded all the inputs into a coherent story that was by turns hushed and wailing." – Dominic Voz”
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Mercurial melange of ambient, classical, computer music and new age jazz impulses from Portland-via-Chicago’s Dominic Voz
Flanked by avant players and vocalists, including Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), Patricia Wolf, Éléonore Rimbault, and Francesco Botello among others, Voz spins a fine web of influences into thizzing arrangements that keen from spasmodic bouts of hyper-jazz and spangled ‘tronics a la Kirk Barley or Second Woman (‘Real Lean’, ‘Oxydcodone’), to more congealed, viscous passages of jazz fusion in its titular parts, thru to something like Lifted meets SND at Laurel Halo’s gaff (‘Dan Ryan’), nestling filigree clarnet/modular touches by Jonathan Sielaff in ‘City Currach’, and letting all his circles/colours bleed and run most impressively on the 12 minute landscape of ‘Home’.
“"As far back as I can remember, I have been obsessed with cities. As a child, I was fascinated by their richness and mythology – the romance of cities, which is so ubiquitous across the American psyche. No doubt aided by the lore of countless films and photographs, I grew up yearning for an identity filled with grit and relevance that a city life seemed to provide. As an adult social worker and city dweller, my fascination morphed into a focus on the social arrangements and contestation produced in urban settings. 'Right to the City' is my own way of unraveling these ideas through a process of fractured storytelling; some of the songs are meant as imagined ethnographies of the people dispossessed and marginalized in cities while others are vignettes meant to soundtrack a besieged urban existence – a visceral immersion into the warring sounds of the city. They are decidedly not “protest songs”; they are my love letters to, and nightmares of, Portland and Chicago over two fraught years, told through characters from every corner of my life. I ripped samples of riot munitions and street chants from television news and Youtube, recorded police sirens in the street, enlisted friends to play cello and clarinet and to recite fragments of poems, and experimented with a half dozen forms of synthesis. In the end, I tried to make something that molded all the inputs into a coherent story that was by turns hushed and wailing." – Dominic Voz”
Mercurial melange of ambient, classical, computer music and new age jazz impulses from Portland-via-Chicago’s Dominic Voz
Flanked by avant players and vocalists, including Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), Patricia Wolf, Éléonore Rimbault, and Francesco Botello among others, Voz spins a fine web of influences into thizzing arrangements that keen from spasmodic bouts of hyper-jazz and spangled ‘tronics a la Kirk Barley or Second Woman (‘Real Lean’, ‘Oxydcodone’), to more congealed, viscous passages of jazz fusion in its titular parts, thru to something like Lifted meets SND at Laurel Halo’s gaff (‘Dan Ryan’), nestling filigree clarnet/modular touches by Jonathan Sielaff in ‘City Currach’, and letting all his circles/colours bleed and run most impressively on the 12 minute landscape of ‘Home’.
“"As far back as I can remember, I have been obsessed with cities. As a child, I was fascinated by their richness and mythology – the romance of cities, which is so ubiquitous across the American psyche. No doubt aided by the lore of countless films and photographs, I grew up yearning for an identity filled with grit and relevance that a city life seemed to provide. As an adult social worker and city dweller, my fascination morphed into a focus on the social arrangements and contestation produced in urban settings. 'Right to the City' is my own way of unraveling these ideas through a process of fractured storytelling; some of the songs are meant as imagined ethnographies of the people dispossessed and marginalized in cities while others are vignettes meant to soundtrack a besieged urban existence – a visceral immersion into the warring sounds of the city. They are decidedly not “protest songs”; they are my love letters to, and nightmares of, Portland and Chicago over two fraught years, told through characters from every corner of my life. I ripped samples of riot munitions and street chants from television news and Youtube, recorded police sirens in the street, enlisted friends to play cello and clarinet and to recite fragments of poems, and experimented with a half dozen forms of synthesis. In the end, I tried to make something that molded all the inputs into a coherent story that was by turns hushed and wailing." – Dominic Voz”
Mercurial melange of ambient, classical, computer music and new age jazz impulses from Portland-via-Chicago’s Dominic Voz
Flanked by avant players and vocalists, including Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), Patricia Wolf, Éléonore Rimbault, and Francesco Botello among others, Voz spins a fine web of influences into thizzing arrangements that keen from spasmodic bouts of hyper-jazz and spangled ‘tronics a la Kirk Barley or Second Woman (‘Real Lean’, ‘Oxydcodone’), to more congealed, viscous passages of jazz fusion in its titular parts, thru to something like Lifted meets SND at Laurel Halo’s gaff (‘Dan Ryan’), nestling filigree clarnet/modular touches by Jonathan Sielaff in ‘City Currach’, and letting all his circles/colours bleed and run most impressively on the 12 minute landscape of ‘Home’.
“"As far back as I can remember, I have been obsessed with cities. As a child, I was fascinated by their richness and mythology – the romance of cities, which is so ubiquitous across the American psyche. No doubt aided by the lore of countless films and photographs, I grew up yearning for an identity filled with grit and relevance that a city life seemed to provide. As an adult social worker and city dweller, my fascination morphed into a focus on the social arrangements and contestation produced in urban settings. 'Right to the City' is my own way of unraveling these ideas through a process of fractured storytelling; some of the songs are meant as imagined ethnographies of the people dispossessed and marginalized in cities while others are vignettes meant to soundtrack a besieged urban existence – a visceral immersion into the warring sounds of the city. They are decidedly not “protest songs”; they are my love letters to, and nightmares of, Portland and Chicago over two fraught years, told through characters from every corner of my life. I ripped samples of riot munitions and street chants from television news and Youtube, recorded police sirens in the street, enlisted friends to play cello and clarinet and to recite fragments of poems, and experimented with a half dozen forms of synthesis. In the end, I tried to make something that molded all the inputs into a coherent story that was by turns hushed and wailing." – Dominic Voz”
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Mercurial melange of ambient, classical, computer music and new age jazz impulses from Portland-via-Chicago’s Dominic Voz
Flanked by avant players and vocalists, including Jonathan Sielaff (Golden Retriever), Patricia Wolf, Éléonore Rimbault, and Francesco Botello among others, Voz spins a fine web of influences into thizzing arrangements that keen from spasmodic bouts of hyper-jazz and spangled ‘tronics a la Kirk Barley or Second Woman (‘Real Lean’, ‘Oxydcodone’), to more congealed, viscous passages of jazz fusion in its titular parts, thru to something like Lifted meets SND at Laurel Halo’s gaff (‘Dan Ryan’), nestling filigree clarnet/modular touches by Jonathan Sielaff in ‘City Currach’, and letting all his circles/colours bleed and run most impressively on the 12 minute landscape of ‘Home’.
“"As far back as I can remember, I have been obsessed with cities. As a child, I was fascinated by their richness and mythology – the romance of cities, which is so ubiquitous across the American psyche. No doubt aided by the lore of countless films and photographs, I grew up yearning for an identity filled with grit and relevance that a city life seemed to provide. As an adult social worker and city dweller, my fascination morphed into a focus on the social arrangements and contestation produced in urban settings. 'Right to the City' is my own way of unraveling these ideas through a process of fractured storytelling; some of the songs are meant as imagined ethnographies of the people dispossessed and marginalized in cities while others are vignettes meant to soundtrack a besieged urban existence – a visceral immersion into the warring sounds of the city. They are decidedly not “protest songs”; they are my love letters to, and nightmares of, Portland and Chicago over two fraught years, told through characters from every corner of my life. I ripped samples of riot munitions and street chants from television news and Youtube, recorded police sirens in the street, enlisted friends to play cello and clarinet and to recite fragments of poems, and experimented with a half dozen forms of synthesis. In the end, I tried to make something that molded all the inputs into a coherent story that was by turns hushed and wailing." – Dominic Voz”