Magnetic memories…
My new album, Dreamless, is out next Thursday, Valentine’s Day, on Full Spectrum Records. I’m very proud of this work and can’t wait to share it with all of you. More details will be forthcoming, but a preview track is currently available on my SoundCloud profile.
From the label’s press release:
Full Spectrum is set to kick off 2013 with Radere’s first solo album since I’ll Make You Quiet, which was released via Futuresequence to much acclaim last winter. Entitled Dreamless, this will mark Radere’s third release with Full Spectrum, in addition to I Will Love You, Always — his collaborative effort with offthesky.
Recorded quickly over the course of a few sessions last July, Dreamless finds Radere diving more deeply into the emergent sound world established with I’ll Make You Quiet. Raw drones and looping melodic passages melt into one another seamlessly, with his guitar and an ever expanding battery of effects processors providing the primary source material. Notably, this album features the first Radere track to feature no guitar sounds whatsoever. Indeed, “Widow Maker” is the result of an afternoon spent experimenting with feedback loops and voltage controlled oscillators; as expected, it stands among the most overtly aggressive Radere works to date.
“Marin” features a contribution from Full Spectrum label boss Andrew Weathers. Sourced from tape recordings of Weathers and Radere vocally harmonizing in the decommissioned military bunkers of San Francisco’s Marin Headlands, this track was a staple of Radere’s live sets throughout 2012.
Framed as an exercise in lo-fi aesthetics, Dreamless was tracked initially to four-track cassette and ultimately imported to a computer for further processing and mixing. This marks the first time Radere has utilized tape as a recording medium for one of his albums. As Radere refamiliarized himself with this once ubiquitous technology, it proved to be a sentimental choice; imbuing the creative process with a sense of youthful nostalgia.
Furthering this theme, the photos that come bundled with the physical edition are sourced directly from Radere’s personal Instagram stream. Instagram is a uniquely populist platform that has become the Polaroid of its day, allowing anyone to quickly capture and share moments in time…just as the four-track tape recorder allowed aspiring musicians to do the same.
Dreamless comes out February 14th, 2013 and will be available as a limited physical edition letter-pressed by Jake Riggs, which will come with a lossless digital download card and a selection of Radere’s photography. An unlimited digital version will also be available via the usual online retailers.
“Everything Dies, But That’s Alright (Extended Mix)”
Last fall, I contributed a version of this track to Headphone Commute’s …And Darkness Came compilation, which raised funds to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. The mix I submitted for the project had to be considerably shortened, due to time constraints; but I liked the original edit so much that I saw fit to share it here. “Everything Dies, But That’s Alright” was recorded in November 2012 at the NVRVR studio using guitar, effects pedals and a laptop.
