#481
Bear Worship - Shimmerings
Thursday 25th May, 2017
They say: "It's supposed to feel like a sort of immersive sonic blend. The lyrics meant one thing, but meaning always changes over time and now they mean something else entirely to me.
I remember recording the vocals at about 3am in my home studio. As it happens the track was recorded between my own studio and Stephen Shannon's Experimental Audio in Dublin. Stephen's responsible for adding so much expansion, depth, and detail.
Influences are too many to mention, but I'd been listening to a lot of Panda Bear (obviously), Beach Boys, Oh No Ono, Caribou, Palmbomen, Todd Terje, and Sebastien Tellier. As well as a ton of Far Away, Compuphonic, and Beats In Space podcasts!"
We say: "It was annoying me [Rigsy] all morning. That dinky little vocal riff stuck in my head - what is it? It’s only when I go to write a few words on tracks we played on this week’s show that I realised - it’s actually Dublin’s Bear Worship.
While I vaguely resent a track burying itself into my brain for over 48 hours, it’s testament to just how glorious a piece of music this is. And that’s before you get to the utterly sublime production, in which the attention to detail takes the track up another level still."
Bear Worship is a project by Dublin musician Karl Knuttel, with debut album 'WAS' due for release on 15th June, 2017.
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