072: Color Fields, by Uma's Thermos

072: Color Fields

by Uma's Thermos

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1.	Lengthy Necks 04:23	buy track
2.	How To Make Sense 03:23	buy track
3.	Layer of Noise 04:13	buy track
4.	Put U In My Bag 02:09	buy track
5.	Curl In 04:49	buy track
6.	String In The Air 04:22	buy track

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COLOR FIELDS was recorded during late summer 2017 by principal songwriter Abby Gregg alongside collaborators Taber Lathrop, Ryan Radtke and Drew Kirby in the basement of the lovingly-dubbed Dirthole arthouse in the richmond neighborhood of San Fransisco.

Since there was no available drumset (and plenty of neighbors in proximity), most of the acoustic elements of the project are either vocals or woodwinds - the rest occupies a sort of raw digital murk, at the same time earthy & primitive yet tense & futurist: lots of drum machines, delay pedals and general impressionism in both subject matter and performance.

Gregg previously made her musical debut on a collection of cuts from 2017's Bananagrams Vol. 4, itself a sort of swan song project for our Athens scene before everyone scattered across the continental states in the following years, but also a place of rebirth & new ideas - "How To Make Sense" appears on that release in a creaky, skeletal form as her first properly recorded song. This batch of tunes quickly followed suit as Gregg worked through grad school at the San Fransisco Art Institute, expanding from painting into sculpture & audio design. She has since graduated with an MFA in painting and currently resides in Colorado working as a painting/drawing teacher & lecturer of Visual Arts at the University of Colorado - Denver.

Everyone is better for having known Abby - here's yr chance!

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released October 13, 2019

Songs & cover art by Abby Gregg
Engineered by Drew Kirby - Dirthole, SF, 2017
**except "Put U In My Bag" - Coppertone Studios, Berkelely, 2017
Mixed by Drew Kirby - Small Recordings, Winterville GA, 2018

Drum programming, aux percussion, guitar & ambience by Ryan Radtke
Bass & musical oscillation by Drew Kirby
Clarinet and voice from Taber Lathrop
Wind arrangements by Drew & Taber
"Layer of Noise" arrangement by Taber & Drew
Special thanks to Nicolas "Dobby" Dobbratz for access to the instruments & facilities at Coppertone Studios

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Marching Banana Atlanta, Georgia

MARCHING BANANA represents a loose coalition of artists based between Atlanta & Athens, Ga. with a tendency to meld outsider pop with a modernized DIY home-recording ethic.

POP & NOISE. FOUNDED IN 2011.

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