Steve Bates
The Wrong Echo
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2010 release ** "Canadian sound artist Steve Bates works with hi- and lo-tech instrumentation and equipment to produce a restrained, delicately abstract electronica. ”Everywhere Little Explosions” encapsulates his methodology: a two-note piano motif is looped and fed through distorting baby monitors and computer software until it becomes a sort of psych-fuzz mantra. Bates favours sounds that confound the ear by occupying the exact midpoint between the synthetic and the natural, such as the digitized pinprick guitar harmonics on “I’ve Had Enough”… On the short pieces, Bates displays great musicality and economy of expression. File under ‘gifted miniaturist’."
Release notes
Mastered March 2010 Thanks to all the musicians, jake moore, Eric Mattson, Harris Newman, David Bryant, Anke Burger, Douglas Moffat, Joshua Bonnetta, Greg MacPherson, Nancy Ring, Theodore Turner, Nicole Gingras, Joel Taylor, Chris Ready, Napoleon Soberanis, and to the one who set off the firecrackers This recording was made possible through the assistance of the Canada Music Fund and the Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts
| 1 | The Wrong Echo | 4:07 | |
| 2 | Broken Arms | 3:39 | |
| 3 | Lefty's Theme | 5:33 | |
| 4 | Trans-Atlantic | 5:24 | |
| 5 | Calypso | 4:35 | |
| 6 | Floorboard Music | 3:52 | |
| 7 | Doledrums | 6:13 | |
| 8 | Current Collapse | 2:58 | |
| 9 | Harbour Lights | 3:02 |
- Anke Burger
- Artwork By [Image]
- Leanne Zacharias
- Cello, Recorded By [Additional]
- Peter Burton
- Double Bass
- Jason Tait
- Drums, Drum Machine, Electronics, Recorded By [Additional]
- Christof Migone
- Electronics [Gutted Reel To Reel, Contact Mics]
- Eric Mattson
- Layout
- Harris Newman
- Mastered By
- Christine Fellows
- Piano, Keyboards, Recorded By [Additional]
- David Bryant
- Recorded By [Additional]
- Steve Bates
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Jake Moore
- Vocals, Artwork By
