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Voices of Dawn 05:08
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A Solar Emperor 04:29
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Urumqi 06:24
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mammals 05:34
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After School Minotaur 04:09
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Dave McDonnell’s 5th World album Mammals is a robust and groovy dialogue between the digital and the organic. Working with Chicago drummer Quinlan Kirchner (Wild Belle) McDonnell lays down driving, multi layered sequencer patterns and ambient textures, created with a text-based music coding software called RTcmix.

Over these backing tracks Kirchner drums: sometimes repetitive and krautrock, then polyrhythmic and afro-beat inspired, and again with moments of full-on kinetic rock abandon. Once these excursions were edited into song structures, the resulting pieces were finished off with haunting vocal harmonies from Emma-Louise Yohanan (Icy Demons) and bass work from Derek Almstead (Of Montreal).

McDonnell adds his own vocals, along with low, monk like, contra-alto clarinet drones and pulses, heavily processed saxophone and ripping analogue synth leads. The result is a music that owes as much stylistically to the work of electronic pioneer Jon Hassell as it does to Aphex Twin and Holly Herndon.

credits

released May 28, 2023

Written and Produced by David McDonnell

Engineered and Mixed by Nick Broste
at The Shape Shoppe fall 2018 to spring 2021


David McDonnell -
programming in RTcmix
vocals
tenor and soprano saxophone
contra-alto and Bb clarinet
keyboards
lead bass injection ray

Quinlan Kirchner –
drums and percussion

with

Emma Yohannan-
vocals

Andra Kulans-
viola

Derek Griffin Almstead-
electric bass

Co-produced by Nick Broste

Mastered by Derek Griffin Almstead

Album art and design by Lisa Armstrong

All songs copyright Invisible Library Music ASCAP

Thanks: Karra and my daughters, Tim McDonnell, Justus Roe: home base captain, Shape Shoppe (RIP), The Chandeliers, Parker Woods and the people around it, Northside sun and rain, Brad Garton, Mara Helmuth, John Gibson and all the RTcmix people.

In memory of Jon Hassell

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