My 4th album out of 12, which I will release each month for the next year, BAGELS is a sixteen-track macro album packed to the brim with vibrant, colorful psych vignettes that will leave you in a daze, full and contempt.
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Dedicated to J Dilla, hence the title BAGELS, I pulled out all of my psych records and pondered what to do with them. Make a mix? Make beats? Do a live set?
I decided to make red-edits /cut-ups of his favorite samples and see where it takes me. After creating a few, I realized the music was in the same ilk as Dilla Donuts. I decided to make a tribute to J Dilla, Donuts, and my good friend Nate Watters (Sounds Supreme).
Nate was a brilliant DJ and environmentalist who ran his own clean energy PR company and did a lot of good for the world. He passed a little over half a year ago from Lyme. I was thinking a lot about him this past month and it came out in the music.
This album is dedicated to Nate. I initially focussed the album on Global Warming but thought it was too on the head and too dark, so I reworked it to be a much more loosely interpreted piece of work. The way I see it/hear it is holding onto nostalgia, which is interpreted by the radio samples, while living in complete utter chaos which, is the anxious cut-ups of the music and movement of the album. However, I'd like this album to mean and represent whatever the listener takes from it.
-NB
