My Exotic Self

by Lost Cat Magnet - Charles Russell - Tiago da Silva

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1.	Pi Anticipation 03:11	info	buy track
2.	Salamander Trance 06:15	info	buy track
3.	If I'd Traveled South 02:50	info	buy track
4.	The Door in My Backyard 07:43	info	buy track
5.	Different Stars 01:49	info	buy track
6.	If I Were You 07:35	info	buy track
7.	No One to Tell Me No 09:12	info	buy track
8.	Pick Zero 03:50	info	buy track

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Recorded as LIVE as possible through the pandemic of 2020/21 in separate spaces, but in spontaneous live playing with and on each track in a one or two take process.

A blend of electro-glitch and ambient, infused with bop and neo-classical, southern gothic jazz. At times chaotic, at other times deep and elegant. Like all the battles of our times, as only our exotic selves could portray.

"During a career spanning nearly 40 years, the wildly prolific Austin staple Lost Cat Magnet (Ricardo Acevedo) has ventured deep into the dark arts of electronics, delving into ambient output of various musical contexts, chill-out grooves, and techno-prog. However, his latest work asks the listener to consider multiple minds while digesting the fantastic My Exotic Self, Acevedo's avant-garde jazz trio project with multi-instrumentalists/jacks-of-all-trades Charles Russell and Tiago da Silva. Recorded in separate spaces – through the COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 and 2021 – the triumvirate documented My Exotic Self as a largely spontaneous and raw event, with only one or two takes for each track. On the surface, the album is a gorgeous, clashing potpourri of competing languages: electro-glitch, ambient, bop, downtempo, various dance-inspired genres, and eerie "neo-classical, Southern gothic jazz."

"Everything folds onto itself in the roughly 42-minute project, like the scene in 2010's Inception where Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) shows Ariadne (Elliot Page) how the dreamworlds work. The bionic "Salamander Trance" mechanical skitters and slides in strange loops, with Russell's piano appearing for texture. Both the nine-minute "No One to Tell Me No" and "The Door in My Backyard" exude a seductive quality, though the latter's winding synth hypnotizes, finding synergy with Barreto da Silva's bass. Smack in the middle, however, Acevedo introduces a sultry hip-hop-inspired beat, almost imitating a woman's sauntering toward a lover. Lost Cat Magnet is much less of a collage than multiple simultaneous conversations on the same wavelength."

~ KAHRON SPEARMAN, FRI., FEB. 18, 2022 - Austin Chronicle

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released January 21, 2022

Lost Cat Magnet: (Ricardo Acevedo) Electronic Composition Mixing & Editing, Mini-Nova, SP404, MicroFreak, DrumBrute, Kaos Pad. Live synth, keys, looping

Charles Russell: Live Rhodes MKI 73, Everett Console Acoustic Piano

Tiago Barreto da Silva: Electronic Composition Mixing & Editing. Electric Guitar Bass Guitar

Live drums on IF I TRAVELED SOUTH
Graham Reynolds from Sonombulo

All loops created by LCM live or from scratch. Special acknowledgement to SOUNDS sample library for sonic structural elements.

Thanks to all the folks in the Austin underground jazz, electronic and avant-garde music scene: Willie Oteri, Dave Laczko, Harold McMillan, Melissa Seely, Anne Heller, Steve Mankenberg, Christopher Petkus, Michael Goldsmith, Joshua Thomson. KOOP Radio and all the folks at Volstead Loung Austin for hosting the weekly beautiful madness that is Me Mer Mo. BIG love to Ramon Mills @ Heterodox Records, My wife (LCM) Susan Acevedo and the enduring spirit that is Second Culture - RIP Keith McGrew

Front collage by Stanmore Reed / www.redbubble.com/people/stanarchy/

All songs by Ricardo Acevedo (LCM) and Charles Russell. Mixed & Mastered by Tiago Barreto da Silva © 2021 Animasonic Music All Rights Reserved

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Lost Cat Magnet Austin, Texas

Over 40 years of electro art mind spasms, urban ambient, art-punk, cinematic soundscapes, avant-jazz noise and trance groove. Leading member of Freaks Amor, The Blue Box, Second Culture, Cup, Gone to Earth - LOST CAT MAGNET, PetCatMan, Dimmer Twins, UBA, O'Clock and numerous other collaborations! More albums at: heterodox-records.bandcamp.com ... more

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