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what is bebop '79? where is?

by Bebop '79

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Hep! 04:32
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Ruff Ryder's Anthem 03:06
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Pianosolo (Dark Pictures) 10:34
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Sky: Where Booms Go To Fly 05:31
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Swirl Cone ft. Rainbow Sprinkles 02:04
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Toothesome Faunaferns 02:38
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Enjoy Your Orgasm 04:38
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Till Dawn 06:12
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☁ ▅▒░☼‿☼░▒▅ ☁ 03:18
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Papi Pesadilla 07:58
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Some of My Best Friends Are... Pills 07:50
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Woo! 00:04
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/what is bebop '79?/

"it sounds like you got possessed by an 8-bit Ghost Pepper, and then you left your body to possess a neon jazz orchestra conducted by your physical body, possessed by said pepper" -Axton Frick

Bebop '79 is genre bending jazz "duet" from Michael Fanuzzi (drums, guitar, voice) and continuing iterations of His Machine, Lazerbeat (piano, synthesizers).

The Machine is, at a functional level, a clever means of playing multiple instruments at once, feeding off of the subtleties of percussion and the environment to generate fantastical melodies in response.

But more than that, there's an unpredictable nature to it that makes it feel truly alive. The Machine is not only reacting, it is in itself creating. Together.

This premier album was cut from the very first experiment with this real-time conduction technology. Note selection is driven directly by the drums, using a combination of pitch/percussion analysis, first from the drums, and later from the guitar, and even voice. Loops and layers are built, growing ever vaster in scale. The album opens with jaunty march of recursive high synth leads as the drums freely swing below. Later, as synths are changed to pianos ("Pianosolo"), we get a quite modern Scriabin/Jarrett/Iverson mashup. This leads into a piece of soaring poly strings and mallets ("Sky"), which subsequently combines all of the above into a bizarre and beautiful glitch landscape.

Side B, borne from a single drum click, adds riotous guitar and vocal looping, from punk ("Orgasm") to choral ("Dawn"). In ☁ ▅▒░☼‿☼░▒▅ ☁, piano stabs fall from a sky of dreamy afrique electric guitar. Finally, the drum/piano combo returns once more ("Papi/Pills") for a moment that demonstrates in one way how truly modern jazz can be.

Here at lazerbea.ms, we endeavor to utilize technology to achieve an artistic transcendence. A futuristic primitivism. Welcome to the opening chapter of BEBOP '79.

This album was entirely improvised with no overdubs. Recorded live on August 26, 2017 at The Caged Unicorn in Portland, OR.

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released March 6, 2018

Michael Fanuzzi- drums, guitar, voice, technology, engineering, production, art
Lazerbeat 1.2- piano, synthesizer

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