Brian John McBrearty Releases First Single "Repeating" Today on Love Beyond Measure Records

Kayan da yafi, ruminative guitar-and-voice-forward music which Aquarium Drunkard ya yi karanta a matsayin "yan kyau ta hanyar line tsakanin Zuma, Marquee Moon da The Days of Wine and Roses,” Brian John McBrearty is an artist and a seeker and, with his latest album Remembering Repeating, ya ƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙiri. Remembering Repeating is the first full-length recording that the 44-year-old Philadelphia native has made from which the guitar is entirely absent –– and his first instrumental outing in almost a decade. The record is instead built around resplendent synthesizer progressions, yearning sax, and steady, roiling rhythms. Taken altogether, it is at times reminiscent of Tortoise or Natural Information Society or the instrumental half of Another Green World. Amma ba tare da wani matsaloli da kuma wasu matsaloli, Remembering Repeating is simply too personal to be anything but unique.

“There are emotions and life circumstances,” McBrearty ya ce, "yan ƙananan al'amuran, wannan al'amuran ne mafi kyau don karantawa." McBrearty ya fara tsari na saita Remembering Repeating dangane da ƙananan ƙananan ma'aikatansa da kuma shi ne, mafi kyau, wani kayan aiki don cire da kuma shi ne wani yanki domin McBrearty ya ci gaba da jiki.

A cikin kwarewa, shi ne duk da wannan da kuma ba tare da shi. Remembering Repeating yana da wani alama, amma shi ne wani alama. ( Wannan shi ne biyu na alama da alama, kamar yadda alama na alama, da aka saukar da alama, ya hada da alama.) Yana ƙunshi tare da alama na saxophone –– da aka yi da alama da Matt Douglas na The Mountain Goats – – amma shi ba tare da wani alama jazz. A tsakiya yana da hot waterfalls na David Sylvian-esque, amma ba shi ne wani alama na yanayi. A cikin asali da kuma aikace-aikace, shi ne mai kyau music, wani tsari, amma a cikin alama, shi ne mai alama a cikin shi. “Music has an elemental purpose,” McBrearty ya ce. "Music yana da wani alama na alama, amma yana da alama mai

Album opener “Remembering” was, appropriately, the first track McBrearty composed. “I had no intention of making an album when I began recording the synth tracks that would become the basis for this record. I simply wanted to learn how to better use a synthesizer I had purchased years before (a Roland Boutique JU-06).” Opening with sustained synth chord clusters that ring out while sax and drums lightly explore the resonant space, “Remembering” then pivots to an Alice Coltrane-esque theme on the synthesizer, with the saxophone stating a lilting melody before launching into improvised territory.

"Repeating" ya ce da kuma nuna McBrearty's ban mamaki iya amfani da kananan al'amari don mafi kyau. "Binciken da suka wuce, na sani da ni a wani composer; kowane al'amari na so ne a sabis na tune, "McBrearty ya ce. Yanzu tare da wani bass solo da aka rarraba a cikin band echo, "Repeating" ya rarraba game da wani tsananin half-note saxophone melodi da aka rarraba a kan wani jaunty beat da McBrearty's rarraba, syncopated synth lines da aka rarraba tare da wani Tangerine Dream soundtrack. A lokacin da asali melody ya rarraba, da melody ya saukar da kuma rarraba ta kwarewa; da saxophone

Collaboration ne mai ban sha'awa na McBrearty na music da kuma Remembering Repeating ya hada da biyu short interlude takardun da aka rubuta ga dukan masana'antun. "Burning" yana ƙirƙirar wani sha'awar da aka rubuta da Douglas, tambayoyi daga Jewell da aka rage a cikin takardun metal, da atonal synth loops da ke rufe a cikin focus a cikin ƙasa na takardun. “Floating,” har ma, aka tsammani daga wani ban mamaki kayan. "A takardun da aka yi da ni ya yi wa yi da sauti a cikin tee kettle a lokacin da shi ya haɗari," McBrearty ya nuna. A karkashin ƙaunar synths da aka tsaye tsakanin takardun C da C#, "Floating" yana ba da wani shigarwa zuwa gundumar gundumar. Douglas

Dangane da short interludes, “Unfolding” ne Remembering Repeatingta ci gaba da tsari, da wani sha'awar da aka sauke McBrearty's compositional matsakaici da ayyuka. Cinematic, kyau, da kuma tsanani, "Ubangiji" ya sauke layer-after-layer a karkashin 9+ minti. Tare da ƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙirƙir

The A da B sides of Remembering Repeating Duguna tare da tsanani, suntrending abubuwa don saukar da kowane tafiya. Side A tsanani "Believing" ne mai tsanani don jima'i da kuma sha'awa ga ƙarfi na sauti. A cikin tsari na “Central Park West” na John Coltrane da “Sun King,” na The Beatles, song yana samar da ƙarfi mai tsanani wanda rarraba a cikin zane-zane. A lokacin da haka, na farko na album, “Receiving” - kuma na kawai abubuwa da ke nuna McBrearty's (lyric-less) mata - shi ne wani visceral portrayal na tsanani da aka fara tare da catharsis kamar Jewell's tambayoyi da Douglas' tenor sax swirls da kuma rarraba a cikin

Tuntuɓi Remembering Repeating is flawlessly executed, McBrearty notes that as the years go by, he is “less and less concerned with technical proficiency.” Not to say the music lacks either technicality or proficiency. Rather, McBrearty’s relationship to the music reflects an internal shift of emphasis to “taking a more expansive view, getting out of the way and allowing intuition to guide you.” “My music is about expressing and achieving spirituality, a sort of sacrament, communion with the eternal … there are many ways to phrase it,” he says.

A cikin wasu mataki, za a yiwu, ba tare da cewa wani abu.

McBrearty ne mai ban sha'awa DIY musici da aka tsammani da ƙananan tsari a matsayin mai ban sha'awar da chief songwriter na daban-daban banki da kuma, karshe, a karkashin na'urorinsa. "Ina da wani tsari na dubawa David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' a cikin radio a cikin mota a gaban, "McBrearty gamsu, " kuma daddy ya ce tare da dubawa cewa Bowie shi ne wani shape-shift artist wanda music da persona da aka canza a karkashin shekaru. Saboda haka, wannan kwarewa na ci gaba da hankali, ci gaba da sha'awar da ku yi da wani abu, shi ne wani kwarewa da na dubawa kafin kafin ka fara wani na'ura. "

McBrearty's music journey began in seriousness as a student in NYU's acclaimed jazz studies program. There he met Remembering Repeating Matt Douglas, da kuma Love Beyond Measure Records co-tallace-tallace-tallace Anthony Pirog (DC-based cellist Janel Leppin - kuma collaborator a kan McBrearty's latest album - ne kuma co-tallace-tallace-tallace na label). The sympathico tsakanin Pirog da McBrearty ya zama m a cikin farko da kuma bayan kwarewa su co-tallace da bombastic da kuma so-short-lived instrumental rock band New Electric, wanda ya ba kawai daya EP a shekara ta 2005, tafiya da yawa a mid-Atlantic, kuma za a iya kira da jiki na Pirog's yanzu jazz-punk kudi The Messthetics tare da Fugazi's Brendan Canty da Joe Lally.

In all of McBrearty’s musical endeavors, improvisation is the through-line. From a month-long weekly residency at Lower Manhattan’s Knitting Factory in the early aughts to participating in a guitar ensemble rendition of Julius Eastman’s “Gay Guerilla” (part of Bowerbird’s first of its kind Eastman retrospective) to the interlacing, angular dual-guitar attack of now-defunct Philadelphia jammers Mesmeric Haze to the panoramic and kaleidoscopic synthesizers of Remembering Repeating, McBrearty has consistently demonstrated an affinity for exploration on the fly. “I take a broad view of improvisation,” McBrearty explains. “It’s not just jamming and soloing. I’m often improvising when I’m composing, which is largely how the building blocks of Remembering Repeating were formed. I can improvise when I’m arranging or mixing a song. For me, it’s all about listening to what I hear within myself as well as outside of myself and synthesizing the two.”

From synthesizers to synthesizers. A repetitive, cycling of sound.

McBrearty’s expansive view of improvisation takes center stage on his twice-monthly radio show Improvised Solutions, which airs on Northwest Philly’s Germantown Community Radio. With more than 20 years playing in the Philly music scene, the radio show offers McBrearty a different way to interface with the music community after having shared the stage with the likes of Kinloch Nelson, Elkhorn, One Eleven Heavy, and even The War on Drugs (when they were still playing small clubs).

Love Beyond Measure Records ne wani label da aka kafa da abokin ciniki da musici Janel Leppin da Anthony Pirog kamar yadda wani gida ga ma'aikata da kuma ga ayyukansa. Duk da su suna bangaskiya don ƙirƙirar aiki na Brian John McBrearty, Remembering Repeating, a matsayin na farko release a Love Beyond Measure Records.