THE CLAMOR – “CARDIAC SOUNDTRACK”/”TURING TOY”
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE MUSIC PREMIERE
“I have spent so many years working in other mediums, film, theater, fiction, and working in the art world, that I wanted to return to my roots, where I feel most at home being creative. That’s music. Like a lot of people, I had a pretty wrecked childhood and the only thing that kept me sane was being a part of the insane punk rock community around me, and listening to and making music and I miss it more and more as I get older. The album is not me trying to recreate that atmosphere but a place to begin where I left off. Even if that just means having fun – like not being too precious, finding ways to be vulnerable, and embracing the collision of styles, all of which I hope you feel in this album. I like this moment in my life and feel like this album was a way to create a sort of sonic snapshot of what I’ve been thinking about and what’s important to me. And thinking of how fast it goes. Like in Cardiac Soundtrack β I wondered what it was that the great Joe Strummer might have been listening to when he had his heart attack. “U-Roy? The Jay Tees?” What will I go out listening to? And what music can I leave behind?
I wrote all the music and brought the song demos to the producer, Omer Leibovitz, and he assembled a group of killer Brooklyn musicians (himself included), to get the full band sound that I wanted. And then he brought along the excellent engineer at Studio G, Jeff Berner, and with Alan Douches mastering I felt I couldn’t be in better hands. The album artwork was done by one of my favorite illustrators, Roxanna Bikadorrof. I first discovered her artwork on the cover of my favorite Flannery O’Connor books and I actually cold-called her and coaxed her out of “applied art” retirement with punk rock.”
On “Cardiac Soundtrack”: “The love of music and the collision of styles needed to make something new. I wondered what it was that the great Joe Strummer (who did that often) might have been listening to when he had his heart attack. “U-Roy? The Jay Tees?” What will I go out listening to? And what music can I leave behind? “
On “Turing Toy”: “This song is about the bad traits we inherit from our parents and the emergence of these traits in our own life and relationships. Learning how to love from unfit parents “Love in boneyards, Turing Toy, I ain’t no Romeo”. I am the Turing Toy, wearing “my father’s uniform”. “Wheeled in rags down desolate halls” – In the hospital on my death-bed questioning whether I ever even had free will, and then the absent father shows up out of nowhere “That’s some cameo”!” ~Aaron Louis
The Clamor
[Single]
(Independent)
Release Date: February 3, 2023
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