1. Major Lazer - Get Free (Beta Frontiers Remix f/ Arowbe)
2. Broad Way Sleep - Brand New Muse
Wrote and recorded some vocals for the new Phèdre record. More work with DAPS Records to follow.
Times Neue Roman - Sade is in my Tape Deck
Wolflove by Robert Bolton + Sarah Shafey
From the book, “Of Silence” (2010)
Lyrics after jump.
Andrew Zealley: Sonnet 56 (Music in Five Parts)
voice: Robert Bolton
Tibetan singing bowl and music: Andrew Zealley
composed, recorded and mixed in the sky 2011
produced by PSBEUYS
Vague Terrain, 2011
Sonnet 56 is a composition in 5 parts, without pause. Each part lasts 5 minutes, bringing the total duration to 25 minutes and establishing a splendid sense of symmetry. Based on and around the text to “Sonnet 56” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616), this audio is a meditation on love. The subject is expressed from four personal memory locations and also the present, in non-chronological fashion just as memories and recollections may shift, temporally, backwards and forwards in our thoughts. The concept is a slow-motion dance for two (pas de deux) wherein only one character is consistent. Sonnet 56 is a conceptual reference to the courante, a French dance in 3/2 time signature that was popularized in the 17th century. 3 + 2 = 5. In contrast with the courante’s traditionally lively pace, Sonnet 56 is indicated with andante tempo (moderate, walking pace) and predominantly ambient in tone.
PRETTY BEUYS: WINNING
produced by PSBEUYS
words: Robert Bolton
music: Andrew Zealley
vocal beatbox: Luis Jacob
recorded and mixed in the sky 2006-2011
release: summer solstice 2011
image: Luis Jacob
download includes 3 hidden bonus tracks
PRETTY BEUYS is the pop/sound art collaboration of Robert Bolton aka Arowbe Arowbe Arowbe (vocals) and Andrew Zealley aka PSBEUYS (music). Each song on their debut album, WINNING, samples the stand-alone opening guitar chords from the David Bowie song “Win” (Young Americans, RCA Records, 1975). Along with Bowie, Pretty Beuys borrow from sonic wellsprings ranging from Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys, RUN DMC, advertising by furniture retailer The Brick, and a large palette of percussive sounds generated vocally by Canadian hybrid artist, Luis Jacob. Says Mr. Zealley, “The original recordings of Luis’s vocal beats were made in my studio in March 2006. I recorded him singing along with two songs of his choice—him listening on headphones while I captured only his vocalizations—resulting in a strange and richly nuanced palette of sounds.”
Robert Bolton on writing PRETTY BEUYS: WINNING (June 2011):
The writing is not linear but in its cloud – open for rearrangement, mutation and variant paths. The flow is all paisley. Swung, weaving drops of meaning. I might write seven choruses, seven hooks and repeat or deviate from them at my own instinct. A single line or word becomes an interminable refrain at any moment. The song overlaps staccato-rap style vocals with layers of slow ethereal croons. The laminate vox allows simultaneous signifiers to figure acoustically, affecting each other in multiple rhythmic and hermeneutic interactions.
Through repetition, percussive language and performance, WINNING considers the possibilities of the rapper’s voice as an instrument, rather than a vehicle for precise textual meaning.
Writing is from the network, from the radiant glory of data in flight. To inspire is to catch transmissions in open air. The ephemeral glide encourages stylistic promiscuity. I’ve always thought it important to experiment, not just in the bedroom but also in the music studio and chemistry lab. Erotic and enigmatic, the WINNING tracks give the impression of something rather than state it outright.
416. 854. 3446
