Tastemaker Epics, by Bill Horist

Tastemaker Epics

by Bill Horist

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1.	So Bright, We Cast Shadow in All Directions 06:24	buy track
2.	Dislocation Services 04:38	buy track
3.	The Trends Justify the Memes 12:01	buy track
4.	Remains of the Assiduous Diffidence 06:42	buy track
5.	The Internecine Creed 05:50	buy track
6.	Futility Knife: Gaining a Pointless Edge 04:24	buy track
7.	Lacuna Beach 04:47	buy track

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With a tongue-in-cheek title like Tastemaker Epics, the illustrious West Coast guitarist Bill Horist implores you to hold tight to your sense of humor, no matter how bleak the trip. And bleak it is - a dystopian soundscape dotted with windswept ruins, every track a now-deserted locale to explore.

The bowels of the city have been emptied, picked dry, casting you out in search of sustenance. You scavenge on the outskirts, where industrial rust melds with dried, bronzed fauna. In the weeds, decayed machinery sparks and fizzles. Shiny trinkets linger amidst trash, shimmering under the surface - a token of former prestige.

Moments of respite emerge from the most unlikely of places: the jarring robotic bubbling of "The Trends Justify the Memes" disrupted by silky loops that evolve into sonic sword-fighting. The calming liquified loop of "Futility Knife" obscured by blurts of noise. The ominous drone of "So Bright, We Cast Shadow in All Directions" building to dense heavenly harmonies.

The work is punctuated by a cynicism that spits in the face of desolation and decay while still holding out hope. Never too aggressive to be off-putting but with enough bite to ensure bleeding, Tastemaker Epics truly feels epic, despite the sarcasm of the title - brash and audacious with a pervasive, buried beauty, Horist's latest outing builds a world that's teetered off the brink.

"Horist is one of those players in the field of improvisational musicians that [isn't] purely going for...abstract drones or the endless sustaining of guitars stuck in a loop device...in his music, there is room for melodic touches, repetition, [and] odd changes."
- Vital Weekly

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released June 25, 2021

Bill Horist - solo prepared guitar
www.billhorist.net

Recorded in December 2019 and mixed in January 2021 by Ellison Wolf at Secretary Studios, Seattle WA

Mastered by Karsten Osterby

Art and Design by Anders Nienstaedt

2021 Cudighi Records
All music © & ℗ 2021 Tangenesis Artifactory Music (ASCAP)

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