A Stroke of Blue - n-So

Plym · 2018-10-09T20:26:49.059Z

Listening to this right now. Stunned by how beautiful it is. Very happy you’ve shared a full album. Congrats! Oh, Anson is my favorite so far.

rdfm · 2018-10-09T20:28:54.251Z

been loving your recent insta posts so i grabbed a cassette! keep it up

barnjazz · 2018-10-09T20:40:37.383Z

beautiful front to back! congrats. i love the transitions between the Blue movements, and going from those crystal-clear recordings to tape loops in the next track is wonderful. here’s hoping you take this show on the road!

Inkwell · 2018-10-09T22:21:17.333Z

Absolutely beautiful. Excited to receive the cassette!

dansimco · 2018-10-10T00:23:42.883Z

Sitting at my desk, watching the storm outside with A Stroke of Blue washing over me and it’s just perfect.

abalone · 2018-10-10T05:40:05.684Z

@n-So fantastic
nice work

Duckett · 2018-10-10T07:03:43.157Z

Got the cassette too, really good work!

karst · 2018-10-16T00:19:40.513Z

this is has been on loop for the last few days now.

it’s so fucking good.

David_Rothbaum · 2018-10-16T18:01:34.811Z

this is so good…

andrew · 2018-10-16T22:32:17.744Z

just listened to the first track of this but intrigued to listen to more. you should check out this album if you haven’t already

dan_derks · 2018-10-17T14:31:40.912Z

incredible work @n-So. ‘Isness’ is particularly stunning. every time I go down a “minimal music” rabbit hole, I’m really just looking for this song. wonderful to have it materialized.

gorgeous, gorgeous.

n-So · 2018-10-17T18:37:52.219Z

thanks so much Dan! I definitely want to do a project at some point that focuses on this style even more

alanza · 2019-01-02T22:23:29.539Z

Now that I have a (mono, d’oh!) tape player I’m finally giving this the attention it deserves and I LOOOOVE the piano work on this!!

n-So · 2019-01-02T22:35:20.643Z

thank you so much for the kind words and your support!! the only tape player i have is also mono, and it was fun to hear how it summed when I got the tapes, in particular Anson in mono on cassette on an old player was pretty cool to hear.

the piano ended up being a way bigger character on the album than originally envisioned but I fell in love with the sounds I was getting out of it and with a new kind of minimal composing I’d been experimenting with. will hopefully being going into more detail with @dan_derks in the future about this on the podcast. (sorry dan if that’s a spoiler)

I think the next project is going to dive even deeper into a more minimal/experimental style and with more hand-dampening and other treatments to the strings, combined with more drum machine/modular stuff- for that vibe where you aren’t quite sure what’s “real” and what’s synthesized.

dan_derks · 2019-01-02T22:35:50.734Z

n-So:

sorry dan if that’s a spoiler

it is, but only the best kind. this album is gold. er, this album is blue? it’s fantastic, whatever color it is.

n-So · 2019-01-02T22:39:56.566Z

new album idea a stroke of gold

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(okay this fake cover actually looks pretty sick)

unity2k · 2019-01-02T22:40:44.056Z

I’ll be sure not to miss the cassette release of your next recording.

howthenightcame · 2019-01-05T11:38:13.728Z

I just listened to the E.P. while riding a train across Tokyo. It is very beautiful, and Blue III was my favourite. Thank you for sharing your music!!

cfurrow · 2019-01-08T19:24:54.193Z

Excellent work! I’m really enjoying this. I especially dig Isnes. I look forward to hearing more from you. .

ESC · 2019-01-08T20:59:25.862Z

So good. It’s been in my top 5 the last couple months.