This just in: Avant-percussionist and visual artist Eli Keszler is BACK with some more R&R (rhythm & rhythm) with his newly-announced ninth solo album. Like all good records, it has a title (Stadium), a label (Shelter Press), and a release window (October 2018). Please look forward to enjoying it :)
Keszler explains the title of the album thusly: “After we moved into our East Village apartment, we found a guitar pick on the floor that read ‘Stadium.’ We looked at each other at the same time and had the same thought. It could have gone any number of ways.”
The album’s sound finds Keszler exploring “intersections of melody, restraint and rhythm” that “challenge the idea of memory, impression and space.” The new record also marks a highlight for Keszler’s already busy year, which has seen him deliver a solo exhibition, “Blue Skies,” in Bradford, UK, collaborate with Laurel Halo on her mini-LP Raw Silk Uncut Wood, and tour with Oneohtrix Point Never in support of new record Age Of. Hey, if anyone can find the time, it’s a drummer! (I’m sorry; please keep reading.)
If you can’t wait to be violently Stadium‘d, you can get a look at this baby under construction by listening to a downtempo little excerpt, “Flying Floor For U.S. Airways,” below. If you’re trying to reserve your nosebleed seats ASAP, prepare your pre-order-fingers at the Shelter Press Bandcamp. If you’re here for abstract word jumbles (hope you enjoyed the article, btw), then check out the full Stadium tracklisting below. (I promise I’m not keeping any track titles from you!) Otherwise…I don’t know, go click on a review or something.
Stadium tracklisting:
01. Measurement Doesn’t Change the System At All
02. Lotus Awnings
03. We Live In Pathetic Temporal Urgency
04. Flying Floor For U.S. Airways
05. Simple Act of Inverting the Episode
06. Which Swarms Around It
07. Fifty Four To Madrid
08. French Lick
09. Was the Singing Bellowing
10. The Driver Stops
11. Fashion of Echo
12. Bell Underpinnings
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