July Dispatch, by Evan Pincus

July Dispatch

by Evan Pincus

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price

1.	128 06:11	buy track
2.	The Future of Computing... Now! 09:35	buy track
3.	Kanga Roo (free) 03:04	download
4.	Funeral Singers (free) 03:48	download
5.	Oh, Country (Skin & Bones) (free) 06:01	download
6.	Find The River (free) 04:02	download

about

A two-headed beast. One half, a pair of tracks that appear in radically "demixed" form on my upcoming album 'Evan Pincus & His Own Devices' (coming some point in 2020, presumably. It's almost done!), the other, four covers recorded on my beloved Tascam Portastudio. These two sides hold no relation, but I've always wanted to release something deliberately confusing and musically contradictory, and I finally have the material to do it!

128 is so named because the Max/MSP patch it's based on is clocked & run on a binary counter, and this is built around the sound of it counting to 128. There's a lot more going on but the gist is that the sum of the binary digits controls a sequence of chords. There's a video on my youtube channel where I poke around an earlier version the patch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGc7BPQJ7Q. There's also a guitar solo and a disgustingly digitally manipulated reprise of said guitar solo. The Future of Computing... Now! is a track I've had hanging around since late February, I think... it feels so long ago now! It's in 3 movements - the first, a classic sort of Pincus guitar & drum machine atmospheric piece, the second, a glitched-up version of same, and the third, a dronal, digitally processed fretless bass solo.

Now, the cover tracks. Perhaps it seems out-of-character for the tech-head electro-tweaker much of my music seems to present me as, but I've always enjoyed the straightforward joys of pluckin' at a guitar and singin' a great tune. I've always struggled with a bit of insecurity over my voice, nasally thing that it is, and while that's not stopped me from recording oodles and oodles of cover tunes (especially recently), it HAS often stopped me from sharing them beyond close friends. But that ends now! Four covers are included here, just some of many I've slapped together on the ol' 4 track over the years. You may know the songs, you may not - they range from tracks by alt-rock hitmakers to ones by mysterious Maine-based folksters. More covers will be shared in the future, as will a mammoth triple-disc album of avant-electronica. But here, those two impulses within me share the same space - enjoy it!

credits

released July 10, 2020

Evan Pincus sings, programs, patches, produces & plays laptop, guitars, basses, diatonic marimba, accordion, mandolin, banjo, sampler, shaker and electrified box.

Tracks 1 & 2 are written by Evan Pincus
Track 3 originally written & recorded by Big Star
Track 4 originally written & recorded by Califone
Track 5 originally written & recorded by Big Blood
Track 6 originally written & recorded by R.E.M.

license

about

Evan Pincus Los Angeles, California

Musician, producer, creative technician, Los Angeles resident and eternal weirdo.

contact / help

Contact Evan Pincus

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Evan Pincus, you may also like:

montage
by kay echo

An introspective record that fuses post-rock, shoegaze and ambient synth patches into a seamless array of shimmering soundscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 26, 2023
go to album
Nacre
by Quade

Music that’s woozy and mysterious, like a warped 7-inch, played a speed too slow Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 14, 2023
go to album
pra hoje:
by Dramón & look ma! no wings

Five striking, ornate songs that have the stillness of ambient music, but are rich in detailed arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 13, 2021
go to album
Y U R M X
by ILK

featured on Bandcamp Radio May 22, 2018
go to album
Tiny Pilots
by VÄLVĒ

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 17, 2023
go to album
It Unfolds
by Romeo Moon

The New Romantic sound gets an update from Romeo Moon, taking the genre’s elegant melodies & surrounding them with spiderwebs of guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 27, 2019
go to album
Romeo Moon - Feelin' / Twin Haus - Emperor Oppressor
by Romeo Moon

featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 3, 2017
go to album