Fifteen Recordings From Twenty-First Century Los Angeles

by Obscure Colors

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1.	Set a Course for Wayward Schemes 05:11	info	buy track
2.	Faster 04:14	info	buy track
3.	Untitled (A Way) 03:34	info	buy track
4.	The Year 04:32	info	buy track
5.	Cowards 05:42	info	buy track
6.	Intent 03:51	info	buy track
7.	Losing 03:42	info	buy track
8.	Fix 03:42	info	buy track
9.	Instrumental 02:33	info	buy track
10.	La La La La 02:04	info	buy track
11.	Sepulagrace 03:39	info	buy track
12.	Honora 03:52	info	buy track
13.	Raggles' Lament 04:43	info	buy track
14.	Oh, Baby Raggles 04:53	info	buy track
15.	Code A 02:09	info	buy track

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These recordings weren’t originally intended to be heard by anyone else: sketches, demonstrations, songwriting exercises, fun ways to spend nights and weekends at a massive practice space a little east of downtown Los Angeles, California sometime around 2008 (if you listen carefully, I swear you can hear our neighbors, Sunn O))) and Isis, blasting through the walls of our rehearsal room on some of these recordings).

A few people heard a few of these songs performed live. Our first show was at the Lyric Theater with Emma Ruth Rundle’s band at the time (The Nocturnes) and our friends, Cinder Cone. Our final show was at The Smell with maximalist prog champions Upsilon Acrux (whose drummer played very minimally - at our direction - on “Sepulagrace”).

These songs lay dormant on hard drives until a special set of circumstances in mid-2020 allowed them to be revisited. Aileen Paron helped fill in some of the unsatisfying tracking gaps, and then Don Farwell took a dozen of these things into Earwig Studio to perform Frankensteinian feats of reassembly and resurrection. Brad Boatright at Audiosiege mastered them to bring this monster to its final form. Good luck to this monster. We wish it all the best and apologize for the state of the world into which it was brought back.

Topsy Records, 2020

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released November 6, 2020

Obscure Colors: Jeny Nicholson and Rian Turner

With special help from Jean Hsu, Chris Meszler, Aileen Paron, Rigel Ranciato, and Jay Trautman.

Recorded by Rian Turner (except where noted in track credits)

Mixed by Don Farwell at Earwig Studio (except where noted in track credits)

Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege

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Obscure Colors Seattle, Washington

Another person making music in Seattle to the best of his abilities.

Fifteen Recordings... is the rock record.

Total Eclipse... is the first of three ambient/drone/loop albums to come out in 2021.

Hear me play guitar in These People Here and drums in Guest Directors (both of which will have new releases this year). ... more

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