MAUNO MEESIT - Closer LP sludge

MAUNO MEESIT - Closer LP sludgeBerlin based Estonian singer, songwriter and producer Mauno Meesit is expressing himself through heartfelt songs and minimalist arrangements. I feel very inspired by acoustic instruments and those microscopic sounds that you can hear when you stop for a moment and take the time to listen to how the sounds play with silence. Silence is not emptiness, it always has its own sound that holds everything else together. I wanted to capture the feeling that I

which is perfectly alright in our book

ominous humor

Inspired by a Bohren concert where Christoph Clöser was playing a selection of his band’s music on a grand piano in Moscow “out of boredom

An analogue rhythm machine ploughs almost brutally through the astoundingly delicate electronic veil of "Der Riese und seine Frau" ("The giant and his wife")

I feel it meshes best in Fan Boy

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Arrangements by Ryder McNair and Nico Muhly are threaded throughout the record

New sounds are nowhere more evident than on  “High Water Song”

it is improvisation on a massive scale

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

as Varg Vikernes wrote the lyrics to the sixth song on this album

Oakland garage veterans MIDNITE SNAXX