BLACK SPIRITUALS "Black Interiors"

RAT076: CS/DL

2015

Recorded in isolation, Black Interiors reveals an examination of the members of Black Spirituals as solo artists applying their crafts to specific circumstances, environments, locations. Together we offer you meta-praxical artwork that is completely new for us, and something we have rarely heard from other musicians.

This cd was compiled to support a four-city Black Spirituals East Coast tour in September 2015 culminating in a premiere performance at the Issue Project Room.

Special thanks to James and Theresa, Issue Project Room, Randall Dunn, Andrew Oswald, Jacob Felix Heule, waterSpace 227, The Headland Center for the Arts, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia and Resipiscent Records.

"Black Interiors"

BLACK SPIRITUALS

Zachary James Watkins | studies in harmonic strings and room resonance |

Recorded and Mixed while on residency in Slaton Texas at waterSpace 227 and the Headlands Center for the Arts Gymnasium 2014/2015.

01 Temperament 8:10
02 Radius 8:38
03 Location 7:00
04 Mass 3:17

Marshall Trammell

Recorded and Mixed at Avast Studios Seattle, WA by Randall
Zachary James Watkins | studies in harmonic strings and room resonance |

Recorded and Mixed while on residency in Slaton Texas at waterSpace 227 and the Headlands Center for the Arts Gymnasium 2014/2015.

01 Temperament 8:10
02 Radius 8:38
03 Location 7:00
04 Mass 3:17

Marshall Trammell

Recorded and Mixed at Avast Studios Seattle, WA by Randall Dunn.

05 Attentiveness 13:18
06 Tempestuousity 11:13


Recorded in isolation, Black Interiors reveals an examination of the members of Black Spirituals as solo artists applying their crafts to specific circumstances, environments, locations. Together we offer you meta-praxical artwork that is completely new for us, and something we have rarely heard from other musicians.

This cd was compiled to support a four-city Black Spirituals East Coast tour in September 2015 culminating in a premiere performance at the Issue Project Room.

Special thanks to James and Theresa, Issue Project Room, Randall Dunn, Andrew Oswald, Jacob Felix Heule, waterSpace 227, The Headland Center for the Arts, Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia and Resipiscent Records.

Graphic Source Material by Margarita O

Tour Schedule “be like all” Baltimore at The Red Room September 18th with two deep brothers Jamal Moore and Luke Stewart of Ancestral Duo, September 19th in D.C. as part of the Sonic Circuits festival, Philly on September 20th with Nick Millevoi /Chris Forsyth Duo and lastly an evening length concert at Issue Project Room at The Stump in Queens New York on September 22nd.

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press

Black Spirituals "Black Interiors" Review in SF Weekly: "Top 5 Parties Plus Notable Record Labels"  - June 2016

"Black Spirituals : A Duo That Defies Categories" in New York Times - 2015

"Below The Radar: Black Spirituals" The Wire Magazine - 2016

From beginning to end, you might have heard the influence of the polyrhythmic free-jazz drummer Milford Graves; the slow, distorted, guitar-riff repetitions in a band like Earth, with whom the duo recently toured; and improvising electronic musicians like Toshimaru Nakamura, who like Mr. Watkins uses a mixing console and digital pedals as sound-generating devices in and of themselves, without instruments plugged into them. That alone, the mixture of those different paradigms — even on paper — is fairly exciting.” - Ben Ratliff

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