FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 21, 2008
Contact:
Nick
Notis
3041
21st Ave W, Suite A
Seattle,
WA 98199
Phone:
206-281-0282
nnotis@msn.com
Nick
NotisÕ new album Lycopods available for free via digital download
Seattle,
WA Š February 21, 2008 - Nick Notis will be releasing a new album, Lycopods, online via his website
on February 21, 2008. Lycopods is the result of an intensive effort to
integrate bells, kotos (Japanese stringed instrument), gu zhengs (Chinese
stringed instrument), and banjos into melodic electronic music. The result
recalls bits of 90s electronic, but also Eastern and Western classical music.
It has many layers of depth, but remains accessible to a casual listener.
Nick
Notis has been creating sound art in Seattle since 2000. He has composed
soundscapes for theatre, dance, short films and performance art. At his
recording studio, Bees, Notis has produced songs for Seattle bands The Long
Ranger, The Stereo Future, and Okie Dokie Donkey. His previous albums, Bees and
White Chicks received online accolades from his electronic music peers at
em411.com. His boy-pop alter ego Tommy Shane released the EP Shane Reaction last year to the
popular acclaim/delighted derision of SeattleÕs performance art scene.
With
Lycopods, Notis strives to take melodic composition to a new level, one
previously unexplored in the electronic music (EM) world. The basic approach to
EM has always been to come up with a minimal number of passages that get
repeated for the duration of the song. In NotisÕ songs, there is a constantly
evolving melody with different movements, such as those found in European and
Japanese classical music. Notis has also created very detail-rich spaces for
the listener. Lycopods conveys the illusion of
a real space and pushes the recorded medium to a high level of surreality.
ThereÕs something very striking about hearing a recording of artificially
crafted noises in what sounds like a real space. But thatÕs exactly what Notis
has achieved by using a mix of sampled acoustic constructions and synthetic
instruments. The result is a sound that sometimes recalls familiar instruments,
but often pulls the listener out of time and space.
For
more information please visit Nick NotisÕ official website at www.nicknotis.com.
Download
Lycopods for free in a variety of formats. Samples of his previous work are
also available for download.
To
book your interview with Nick Notis please send an email to nnotis@msn.com.
If you are a radio station
and would like to request an advance copy of the album please email nnotis@msn.com.
Phone:
206-281-0282
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