Sean La'Brooy - Merchant by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:38Z www.instagram.com/sean__labrooy/ www.instagram.com/joseph.batrouney/ www.instagram.com/leo__y__/ www.facebook.com/scissor.and.thread.nyc/ www.instagram.com/scissorandthread/ www.youtube.com/user/ScissorAndThread Sean La’Brooy is an Australian producer and composer cur- rently based in New York, who’s work traverses ambient, jazz and house music. He is the co-founder of Australian ambient label Analogue Attic Recordings. With this release, La’Brooy has hooked up with the Scissor and Thread label to put out Merchant - five dreamy and versatile tracks featuring his distinct style of harmonically complex pads mixed with jazz-influenced instrumental melodies and solos. Snow Storm starts the journey, coupling field recordings with snippets of gentle jazz lines and wandering percussion. Cargo is the most dancefloor-oriented of the release, and locks into a driving groove early on, featuring various synth and pia- no fragments to add and flow through the track. Pilot is a track that also finds an off-kilter groove, embellished with dubbed-out percussion by fellow Australian Joseph Batrouney and samples. Storage too features a guest - New York based drummer Leo Yucht - who delivers a rolling breakbeat which is intertwined with live percussion, airy pads and snippets of piano to build a rich atmosphere. The closing piece is Helipad, a dubby bassline providing the anchor for an intricate rhythm of bongos and synth to support a light-as-a-feather melody. As Sean explains, “The purpose of this record was to create five tracks that each feel unique and distinctive from each other while still maintaining a common thread that connects them all to the same place. All my favorite records have a certain distinctiveness across each track that ties them together to create a sort of family of works. I think if you can achieve that cohesion, you’ve made a great album. With Merchant, I’ve tried my hardest to establish a unique identity while featuring 5 tracks that feel totally different at the same time. Different con- cepts, genres, tempos, instrumentation, still with a red thread to connect them all. In my mind, those commonalities are defined by a particular mood or sentiment, the use of playful melodies, and a reliance on acoustic rhythms throughout”. Genre Electronic Contains tracks Sean La'Brooy - Snow Storm by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:37Z Sean La'Brooy - Cargo by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:35Z Sean La'Brooy - Pilot feat. Joseph Batrouney by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:34Z Sean La'Brooy - Storage Room feat. Leo Yucht by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:33Z Sean La'Brooy - Helipad by Scissor and Thread published on 2023-10-05T14:37:32Z
