We caught up with Brian Weitz (Geologist) late in February about his new collaborative record with Doug Shaw, A Shaw Deal, which transforms guitar sounds into an eclectic, sometimes unrecognizable shapes and patterns, as well as about his fascination with the renaissance instrument, the hurdy-gurdy, which he first heard at a Keiji Haino concert at Tonic in the aughts, and now employs to create hallucinatory improvised sets, about as far from the Ren Faire as a stringed instrument can wander. He’ll be releasing an album of hurdy-gurdy music later this year.
Category: Animal Collective
Transmissions :: Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
Built on loops culled from doo wop, psychedelic pop, and early rock & roll records, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom’s new album Reset is an exuberant and oracular listen. In this all-new episode of our weekly interview podcast Transmissions, Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) and Peter Kember (Sonic Boom) sit down with host Jason P. Woodbury to discuss their collaborative partnership, the influence of far out futurist Buckminster Fuller, memory and musical optimism.
Catching Up With Avey Tare
As the world seemingly draws to a stop, Portner finds himself quarantined at home in Western North Carolina amidst work on Animal Collective’s eleventh studio album, the first album since 2012 to feature all four original band members.
Decade :: Animal Collective, Feels (2005)
What is it that makes us want to deconstruct art by units of time? Lists. We love making them. We love arguing over them. And here, on the verge of […]
Animal Collective :: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Though you would never guess it by the groaning foam of their music, Animal Collective are huge fans of simplicity. Over the course of nine years, they’ve built a career on small, […]
Animal Collective :: Tickets – Los Angeles (9/18)
Panda Bear’s 2007 solo album, Person Pitch , is an A.D. favorite so far this year. This being so, it is no surprise we’re digging on his main gig’s new LP as […]