I have a new album out and available now... in a totally different form and format from how I usually release material.
This one's called "Bernard LeVautour- Vulture From the Vaults {a live dj-set of unreleased rarities and back-catalog cuts}"
A physical, limited-run pressing is available via my Etsy site-
Click here!
A blurb from the liner-notes, to explain a bit about what it is-
"I haven’t quite
figured out yet if this is intended to be a CD that’s packaged in an art-print,
or an art-print that comes with a CD. So let’s call it, somehow, both.
The print is a
limited-edition digital/ photo-reproduction rendering of a painting called
“5-icons,” the only place where all five images from my “Iconography” series
appear in the same space.
The album is a
single-take live-mix. It’s dirty. It’s messy. It was recorded direct to Type II
cassette-tapes on an ancient Tascam 4-track, because that seemed appropriate,
as there’s material in this mix that dates back far enough that we were using
those things without irony. Much of the
mix is improvised, and I broke a turn-table and plowed my way through a
whole slew of other technical issues throughout the mix.
I wanted to
release some sort of compilation of my own unreleased back-catalog cuts and
rarities from my musical past, but I wanted to do it in such a way that
wouldn’t enshrine or fetishize moments
from the past. Therefore, this mix is often in some ways somewhat
irreverent. In terms of mixology, my impulse veered often toward stubbornness-
the highest quality, best-known, most successful recordings dropped into this
mix tend to be the ones that I made the largest effort to dirty up and in some
cases possibly even “ruin” into unlistenable noise, while allowing certain cuts
from far more obscure past-projects that most won’t even know I worked on to spin
clean, almost undisturbed.
Basically, this is
just a filthy mess that I felt like I needed to get out. For some reason, I
feel better now that I did."
For $15 you get both the limited-edition print, and the disc that's mounted into the back of the frame.
