BROADCAST - Microtronics - Volumes 1 & 2 LP Folk

BROADCAST - Microtronics - Volumes 1 & 2 LP FolkBroadcast originally made available their two Microtronics EPs as tour only 3 CDs back in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Given the subtitle Stereo Recorded Music For Links And Bridges, the brief tracks (rarely more than two minutes in length) were seemingly designed to be interstitial compositions and sound sketches for use in some imaginary film or documentary, allowing the band to indulge their love for retro futurism. Both volumes are now available

Erosion) on drums and Brian Cook (Russian Circles) on bass

Irgendwie trifft das auch auf tot aus Ostfriesland zu

Usually when you take a long time contemplating the songs

Commissioned by the Chicago Cultural Center and the Jazz Institute of Chicago in 2005 to assemble a group representing the diversity of the city’s contemporary avant-garde

Along with sometime Yo La Tengo producer Roger Moutenot's hands on deck

the extended Davenport family has been producing their unique flavor of free-form and exultant improvisational folk since 2001

I want to make things that belong to the moment

Whose work is deeply rooted in curiosity

the band offers a modern coming-of-age story about growing up and grasping both the known and the unknown

the music remains as a time capsule

Singing too

competing or colluding with all of the above to produce a piece of urban exotica