Photay with Carlos Niño: C H A N G E
HDN writes up releases from label International Anthem so often you’d think we were working for them. We’re not! The Chicago-based enterprise has been on a roll since pretty much its inception, curating a roster of talented (mostly) local artists ready to break out on the national and international scene. We’re just here for the good music.
Check out the latest musical adventure to drop from Evan Shornstein (aka Photay) and Carlos Niño. If you don’t have your ambient card punched in your record collection, this album will do the job. Electronic squeeks and bleeps, blurbs and murps, mawks and squawks unfold alongside natural found sounds like streams of running water and more.
The mindset is minimalism. The method is repetition in a soft-Reichian vein. And you’re not mistaken if you hear scratches and whispers of a jazz album sneaking around the edges of the frame.
Stream, share, buy to your heart’s content.
Garage punk, sure. But the art core impulse is unmistakable here.