Apropa’t, by Savath and Savalas, is the latest album by Scott Herren, who is better known for the music he releases under the name Prefuse 73. (You can purchase it digitally from Warp Records online, for considerably less than it costs as a CD. Also, the download is in the form of unencrypted mp3 files).
This music is very different from Prefuse 73. It’s slow, dreamy, and somewhat folkish, with no glitches and not much of a beat. Herren is collaborating here with vocalist Eva Puyuelo Muns, who sings ethereally in Catalan and Spanish.
What I love about this album is how it evades attention,and never quite coalesces. The lovely melodies never quite come into focus. The music slips and slides right past my center of awareness. It’s as if I’d been (oxymoronically) hypnotized into distraction. And no, I haven’t the faintest idea how, musically speaking, Herren accomplishes this.
Apropa’t
Apropa’t, by Savath and Savalas, is the latest album by Scott Herren, who is better known for the music he releases under the name Prefuse 73. (You can purchase it digitally from Warp Records online, for considerably less than it costs as a CD. Also, the download is in the form of unencrypted mp3 files).
This music is very different from Prefuse 73. It’s slow, dreamy, and somewhat folkish, with no glitches and not much of a beat. Herren is collaborating here with vocalist Eva Puyuelo Muns, who sings ethereally in Catalan and Spanish.
What I love about this album is how it evades attention,and never quite coalesces. The lovely melodies never quite come into focus. The music slips and slides right past my center of awareness. It’s as if I’d been (oxymoronically) hypnotized into distraction. And no, I haven’t the faintest idea how, musically speaking, Herren accomplishes this.