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nick zanca

@nickzanca

5 months

𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 is my new album and it will be yours to hear on August 2nd via @AmerDreams . Pre-order it now:

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

threw on titanic and soon found myself down this wikipedia rabbithole

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@nickzanca

2 years

completely baffled that we have reached the point where one of the most successful experimental music acts of our generation have to cancel a tour because they can't afford it. if they can't make it work, it's hard to imagine who can. is it so much to ask for people to buy music?

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11 months

not trying to dunk on anybody who does this, but an honest question: are you, as a single person, able to listen 50 records that came out this year, and can vividly remember what occurs in them to the point that you can personally hierarchize them?

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

watching the netflix CCR doc and having a panic attack over the length of john fogerty’s cable

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

It's been exactly 25 years since Mark Hollis of Talk Talk released his last record and retired from music. I spent the past month writing this deep dive about the production of "Spirit of Eden", "Laughing Stock", and his only solo album. Read it on Reverb:

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

at this rate we either collectively evade touring or properly take streaming services to task and fight for long-overdue equity. this system is not working for anyone anymore. it's time to make recorded music economically viable again.

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@nickzanca

6 months

whether or not you drink Cindy Lee's kool-aid, their album subverts nearly every expectation of a modern album rollout: an abundance of tracks, a suggested donation, no label, zero streamers if this is a first indication of a collective return to the underground, i'm here for it

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

we work tirelessly on recordings only to pray the dice fall where they may and make the Indie Dinner Chillout playlist so that we can have a remote chance at being properly compensated for our labor. this counters creativity and is just as unsustainable.

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nick zanca

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4 years

inject it into my veins.

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r3d > teAM > RT

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

music is the best human abstraction available to human beings and we all know it deserves a better fate than being whittled down by Big Tech. don't forget that six months into COVID, Daniel Ek stated that it's no longer enough to take a few years break between releases.

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

but beyond that, i often wonder why we are not putting more energy and emphasis on promoting equity in the context of recorded music instead of rolling the rock up the live music hill amidst inflation and continuous plague like an industry Sisyphus

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

thinking about joni’s portrait of neil

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

i shudder to think of all the bands only just beginning to start their promotional cycles and navigate this inflated terrain. reading news like this makes me want to lock the studio door from the inside an never leave...

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

happy 90th to Eliane Radigue, bar none our greatest living composer, and the artist whose work I've spent the most time with since the pandemic hit. if you lean into what she's doing, she'll teach you lots about patience, silence, resonance, and the art of taking one's time. 🌱

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

11 months

the yassification of spiritual jazz is upon us

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nick zanca

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1 year

this industry is a revolving door and those of us who worked tirelessly to uplift the underheard are collectively been told that what we do is no longer lucrative or worthy of appraisal. i for one dream of finding the means of joining forces and proving them wrong

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

i await the day where the landscape of experimental music ceases to insist on intellectual signaling. half of us have never read deleuze and never will

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

wow this blew up. don’t look me up on soundcloud, the music is not that good

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

honestly we don’t need this site anymore. y’all have been tweeting shit like “the sleepytime tea bear is the jim o’rourke of autechre” for the past two years

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

11 months

i only ask because i’m lucky if i can remember 10 or 15 projects that i connected with this year, let alone those that reached my inbox. do your ears simply know no limits? what if you’re trying to make things of your own on top of that? when is cultural consumption enough?

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

1 year

I was laid off from Reverb today. If you’re looking for a dedicated editor, writer, copywriter, audio / music producer or any other role in the realm of sonic arts or cultural work, I’m on the market and would appreciate any leads on full-time or freelance opportunities. 💔✌🏻

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

meeting people is not easy. radiohead lied

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

9 months

last night at dinner with our studio crew in Paris, we were talking about Damo’s practice of cooking an abundance of food for his band prior to every recording session, and that the act of communing makes the music sound better. i’ll think of him at every meal here from now on

タバタミツル　Mitsuru Tabata

@Tabatamitsuru

9 months

R.I.P. Damo Suzuki 16 Jan. 1950 - 9 Feb. 2024 ダモ鈴木さんが癌でお亡くなりになりました。ダモさん、今までありがとう。御冥福をお祈りします。

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

happy 80th to the goat. hard to pick a favorite but i think this is the one. beautiful puberty between "The Electrician" and Tilt. it's the only 80s record, its 30 minutes long, half the tracks don't have names, the songs drip and ooze out like a wet towel... what's not to love

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

7 months

oh my GOD, dude

Gastr del Sol Announce First Album in 26 Years, Share New Live Song

An archival recording of “The Seasons Reverse” leads a new collection from the band helmed by Jim O’Rourke and David Grubbs

pitchfork.com

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

and this is where the rabbithole leads

The Sinking of the Titanic (1969-), by Gavin Bryars (with Philip Jeck...

1 track album

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

Alvin Lucier is dead. Words cannot describe the impact of this man's contribution to experimental music, psychoacoustics, and the romance between neuroscience and sound. Play this one on a good set of speakers as loud as you possibly can today.

Alvin Lucier - Criss Cross

Alvin Lucier ‎– Criss Cross/HanoverLabel: Black Truffle ‎– BT 033LPFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: AustraliaReleased: 26 Jan 2018Genre: ClassicalStyle: Mod...

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

deeply reassuring to read these thoughts re: the music industry's current content-creation complex written out so concretely. this present mode of marketing and self-promotion amid hypersaturation cannot be sustained. at some point this cycle must break and a counter must emerge

chelsea cutler

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3 years

some thoughts. scary to post this but would rather be honest as i imagine this is something a lot of people might feel lately.

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

6 months

this is why i love this band

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

6 months

cannot believe the news about Steve Albini's passing. his prolificacy, his musical fluidity, his prioritization of equity and staunch opposition to industry status quo are aspirational. us producers should all aspire to the standard he set. time to lift weights to Big Black.

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

11 months

we are individual human beings, not a staff of a condé nast-funded publication. you can’t possibly listen to every record

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

giant treat for talk talk / mark hollis fans tomorrow. stay tuned

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

11 months

wow! a björk song with a melody! what is this, 1997?

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

1 year

gutted and livid to hear about these bandcamp layoffs, and impossible to think of a crew who championed the underheard more. the sonic salt of the earth as far as i'm concerned

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

michael caine’s performance in muppet christmas carol is as if he’s performing in a bergman film. he treats his muppet scene partners with the utmost respect. i bow down

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

seeing a lot of discourse claiming that artists pulling their music from spotify are 'punishing their fans'... miss me with that shit. the platform has punished artists for far longer

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

To close out International Women's Month, I wrote this piece about the legendary Éliane Radigue and the story of her muse, the ARP 2500. Read it now on Reverb:

A Synth in Slow Motion: Éliane Radigue & the ARP 2500

The French electronic music composer's muse was the same early synthesizer featured in "Close Encounters".

reverb.com

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

without this man, laptop performance, electroacoustic improvisation and adventurous label curation would simply not be the same. his loss marks a giant void in the community of experimental music. thank you for shaking things up, peter

INA grm

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3 years

Peter Rehberg (1968-2021)

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

jim o’rourke and eiko ishibashi just completely tore the roof off INA-GRM with their sorcery and i was there

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

1 year

I wrote a longform piece for Reverb about "School Of Rock", which was released theatrically 20 years ago this week. It is a detailed oral history of the film's making from the perspective of the musicians who worked on it. Give it a read:

Lessons Learned from "School of Rock"

An oral history of the musical minds behind the beloved Jack Black comedy, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this fall.

reverb.com

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nick zanca

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2 years

brb passing out

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nick zanca

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7 years

i am starting mister lies LP3 tonight

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

8 months

James McKenzie

@jamesmckz

8 months

No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.

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nick zanca

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3 years

music doc with the same principle as Get Back, but it’s about the making of Trout Mask Replica, and it’s twice the length

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

I’ve made it no secret that these albums are among my favorite of all time, and that Mark’s ethos and approach to making records are a large part of the reason why I am a producer today. Check out this interview segment from 1988 on Spirit of Eden and you’ll see why.

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nick zanca

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10 months

my fam printed a book of all the pieces I wrote for Reverb and gave it to me for Christmas. i am so touched 😭🎄

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

the first five seconds of ‘a milli’ is a sonic liminal space

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

big life news: this is my first week as an editor at @reverb . calling this a dream job would be an understatement—record production and music writing have long been my main preoccupations and i am so grateful to take on a role where the two will converge. 😭🤘🏻

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

thinking about the ehow video on "how to create trippy music" again

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

5 years

my new self-titled album is out everywhere now. thank you for listening.

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

just learned that Mark Hollis was approached to score Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, ACCEPTED the offer… and then she decided to soundtrack it with 80s new wave instead. what a massive L

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

1 year

sinead o’connor was one of the music industry’s greatest anomalies and, if we’re being honest, among the bravest artists of her time. a complete and bona fide subverter of what is expected from pop music. i hope that she knew that in the midst of her pain. this news is brutal

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

I spoke with Todd Rundgren, one of my musical heroes, for Reverb. We had a career-spanning conversation about record production and songcraft. Read it here:

The Wizard Speaks: An Interview With Todd Rundgren

Since long before the age of the bedroom musician, Todd Rundgren has been a one-man production house and a pioneer of new music tech.

reverb.com

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

we’re all having a tough year

Stereogum

@stereogum

2 years

Brawl breaks out at Eagles concert during "Take It Easy"

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

i can guarantee you that anyone who shares this opinion has not spent a single day on the road or in the studio in their entire life and that no one who has should listen to this twisted and harmful logic. we must never forget that music is people and not a real estate asset

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

40 years ago today, Kate Bush released what I consider her magnum opus, 'The Dreaming'. i wrote a piece about the history of her love affair with the Fairlight CMI, the early sampler she used to make that album (and plenty others). read it on @reverb now:

Exchange the Experience: Kate Bush and the Fairlight CMI

The story of the early sampler Kate Bush used on her classic albums.

reverb.com

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

experimental music, baby!

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1 year

it’s been in my life for years but i just now realized that this is a perfect record

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3 years

burial has to be the only artist i know who releases 40+ mins of music and goes "yup, this is an EP"

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

spotify is really resorting to endless ways of displaying the same user data instead of adjusting their royalties. at the rate we're going, no one on your fake festival roster will be able to make it to the gig lol

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nick zanca

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2 years

a music industry landscape where queer identity is no longer a marketable aesthetic and instead just a simple matter of fact is a rainbow worth chasing

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

seeing a lot of these 25 records from the past 25 years posts… here are mine off the top of my head

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

10 months

canon of holiday music that is not holiday music a lot of messiaen and feldman burial's rival dealer kate bush's "50 words for snow" the blue nile's hats "nightingales" by prefab sprout jarrett's köln concert coltrane's olatunji concert

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

I’m proud to share that my debut album under my given name, titled Cacerolazo, will be released by @fullspectrumrec on October 8th. Here is the artwork painted by Hunter Adams:

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

2 years

*owns a label* *yells at music writer who does their best for covering an album they released since they called the album a genre they don't identify with* *proceeds to create venn diagram content implying that "world music" is not only a genre, but a combo of hip-hop + jazz*

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

"living with synesthesia" is music publicist language for "grasping at straws for an angle"

CNN

@CNN

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Billie Eilish discussed her experience with synesthesia, a brain condition in which a person associates colors and numbers to people and objects, on "The Tonight Show." She said host Jimmy Fallon appears to be a "vertical brown rectangle."

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

this? is what we fucking love to see @lrain0000

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@pitchfork

3 years

Announcing the best albums of 2021

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nick zanca

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2 years

last night with @lucyliyou was one for the books. thank you constellation chicago

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nick zanca

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1 year

when i reach the home stretch of mixing a big record, i make a habit of exclusively listening to the polar opposite of the thing i'm making in my free time. in this instance, it happens to be late career scott walker, and it dawns on me: i don't think that braver music exists

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nick zanca

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1 year

Hot off the heels of arguably the greatest Tiny Desk Concert of all time, I'm delighted to share a roundtable conversation I moderated with Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish on the art of guitar improvisation. Read it on Reverb:

The Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet on Improv vs. Structure

A roundtable conversation with Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish on the art of experimental guitar performance.

reverb.com

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2 years

apparently all you have to do to get followers on here is industry doompost? where were y'all when my concrète tape came out lol

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

3 years

the way grouper releases music is honestly the dream. record at hella residencies, visit beautiful places, sit on the stems for however long she feels like before she's like 'sure, here's this thing from eight years ago', constantly donating a cut to mutual aid. i want this life

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nick zanca

@nickzanca

9 months

ah yes. music criticism: a gentleman's game

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

9 months

Pitchfork & GQ are merging according to staff email from Condé Nast: “Both Pitchfork and GQ have unique and valuable ways that they approach music journalism, and we are excited for the new possibilities together. With these organizational changes, some of our Pitchfork

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nick zanca

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2 years

Hard to find the words to capture what this man’s work meant to me. He expanded the horizons of music itself with introspection, fluidity, and grace. Truly a peerless body of work that all of us in experimental music owe a great deal to. Rest In Sound Ryuichi Sakamoto 🕯️

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@nickzanca

2 years

“all the music that ever was and ever will be is here now. it exists in a cloud just above our heads and when we play, we pluck it out of the ether for a lil while before sending it back up.” - bio on jaimie branch’s website if this isn’t it, idk what is

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4 years

thank you.

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6 years

Mister Lies - "The Commuter" a track from my new batch, the first of many to come.

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nick zanca

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2 years

attempting to have a conversation after a show in a lower east side alleyway tonight while jim o’rourke and arto lindsay were sharing cigs twenty feet away from me was like nailing jell-o to a tree

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3 years

I've been wanting to write these words for a long time: Cacerolazo, my debut album under my own name, is out everywhere now.

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2 years

i was just informed that this record came out 10 years ago this week. good lord

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3 years

ah, yes, the two genders, “jazz” and “experimental”

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@nickzanca

3 years

my favorite page of Joan Didion, from 'Play It As It Lays':

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4 years

not now

Stereogum

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4 years

Radiohead's 'Kid A' came out 20 years ago today

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1 year

music - and the way in which people talk about it when no one else is looking - deserves so much better than this

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3 years

there are times when i regret never formally studying composition, and then i remember that this is what i’d be competing with:

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2 years

RIP to ingram marshall, underrated legend of american minimalist music. this is one of those records that i often try to throw on as background music, and then i find it's the only thing i can concentrate on, and just end up basking in it. seek it out if you haven't heard it.

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6 months

this is what waiting to release a record feels like

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4 years

here are my 20 favorite releases of 2020, unranked and unkempt. this year was a dumpster fire but at least it sounded good. great work everyone 🎨

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2 years

the best $500 i ever spent

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3 years

the worst part about Adele fucking up vinyl manufacturing / supply chain is that you just know at least a third of people who buy copies are going to be playing them on a Crosley

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3 years

the only advice i would ever give to a musician: be the tree that falls in the forest anyway

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4 years

Over the moon to announce Wendy Eisenberg’s new LP, ‘Auto’, which I produced and performed on, and arrives October 16 on Ba Da Bing. Pre-order in LP/digital format, watch the video for first single “Futures”, and read all about it here:

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4 years

stoked that bandcamp fridays will continue into next year and for all artists that will benefit from it, but we really have to do something about the associated hypersaturation. we can’t expect ourselves to amalgamate around one release date / one platform, let alone to “keep up”

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i am most interested to see how other artists take a similar path in the coming year. no matter how you dice it, patrick flegel has ultimately given us all a necessary reminder that there's no rulebook to any of this shit, no matter what the technocrats try to tell us

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