OUT MON 5TH SEPT - CD/DL

Front & Follow are delighted to announce a new release by Washington, D.C.- based BLK w/BEAR, Sorry about your (remixes), which sees the band artfully deconstruct/dissect Yonokiero's 2009 release Blue Apples (F&F002) and rebuild it into something uniquely their own; foreign yet still familiar.

Original sound files are reconfigured and fragments of melody and lyrics are rearranged to accentuate audio decay and broken communications: the melancholy keyboard line from "Sumimasen" is in place sublimated by Morse Code; the Blues-shuffle of "Casey Jnr" is bathed in whispered vocalisations and sombre clarinet tones that punctuate looping cello and percussion. "Blue Apples" is reanimated as both the deepdrone "BLK Apples" and a second reconstruction wherein the original track's acoustic jaunt is slowed to a snail's pace of skittering prepared vinyl rhythms, ghostly vocals and the guitar processed to recall instead a samisen.

Sorry about your (remixes) is released on digital download and as a very limited edition CDR with packaging by Damian O'Hara.. A video mix of "Casey Jnr" by member Renee Shaw can also be seen at youtube.com/watch?v=bKy6OB636hs.

‘BLK w/BEAR sound like The Books drank a bunch of cough syrup and morphed to look exactly like Peter Brotzmann’ - Isaac Linder, 2005

‘...like Basic Channel at their most abstract, and after a severe nervous breakdown’ - The Wire, Sept 2010

‘The sound of things falling apart’ - Cohort Records, 2011

BLK w/ BEAR (black with bear) is a full-band effort of JS Adams (prepared vinyl/turntables/ loops), Doug Poplin (cello/effects), PD Sexton (bass/source electronics/effects) and Renee Shaw (live video mix). Their recordings of warm drones and broadcast interference have accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London, as well as BBC and Sun (US) television programming. Adams' early collaboration with Mark Beazley, Wish for a World without Hurt (Trace Recordings), was featured in the Discovery's Channel's Emmy-nominated 'The Flight that Fought Back' production, broadcast in the USA, UK, Russia, Japan and Germany. Their newest recordings include a split CD with amptext + bass on Cohort Records (USA) and a forthcoming 7-inch vinyl release on Champion
Version/Fake Jazz (UK). The band's back catalogue is available on Sonic Circuits' District of Noise imprint (USA), Trace Recordings (UK), Front & Follow (which first released their Version 3 of the Long Division with Remainders project as a download and then part of a 4-CD box set, and their 21-minute "Version 001"remix as part of the bonus Remainders download), and Ultra Red's Public Record label (USA).

Mastered by Mark Beazley - www.tracerecordings.com

Design by Damian O’Hara - www.damianohara.com

Images by Robin Van Valkenburgh - www.etsy.com/shop/therunnybunny

Digital distribution by State51