Happy Halloween! We’ve got a suitably spooky new video for I and I’s track “Illusions” from the recent The Alpha Future LP. Direction of the video was deftly handled by Francis Ouellette of the always intriguing and well designed Hobo Cult Records, also makes surreal video montages culled from the detritus of UHF/VHF weirdness under the moniker Moduli TV. Profiter!
I AND I – Illusions from Moduli TV on Vimeo.
I and I is putting out a free and informal ‘periodical’ album called Ghosts of Bush. It will apparently be added to over time track by track and it consists of I and I’s experiments, oddities and outtakes. The first installment is a mellow, dubby instrumental kinda thing called Orgasm In The Ghosts Of Bush. Listen, download and check I and I’s site for more additions.
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Here’s the tripped out video for I and I’s ‘should have been a beekeeper’. Directed and edited by Mr. I and I himself it is said to be compiled from “Found footage from future civilization on another oceanic planet plagued by hurricanes and ruled by primitive satellite technology controlled by the all powerful Beekeeper ruling class.” That explains things.
I and I’s varied and positive trip through the space/time continuum ‘The Alpha Future’ is out today! Conveniently, the tape arrived today (better late than never). Order it on said portable analog c44 medium w/free mp3 download (7$), compact disc (10$), or at your digital retailer of choice here. Enjoy a photo of the newly arrived cassette below.
I and I’s ‘The Alpha Future’ will be out on disc, tape and digital on Tuesday. Dig the full stream here.
Our next installment in the first Alchemist Video Series is from I and I. It’s a mellow stripped down version of new track ‘Illusions’ from the forthcoming ‘The Alpha Future‘ not to be confused with The Odd Future.
Amidst a season of abundance and plenty here at the Alchemist Collective, we are proud and enthused to announce yet another forthcoming release, The Alpha Future, from I and I, aka the green-thumbed multi-instrumentalist and singer Adam Sarmiento. The Alpha Future continues down some of the paths blazed on I and I’s previous outings, bringing together the emphasis on texture and rhythm that characterizes electronic and dance elements with attention to lyrics and emotional timbres. Longtime I and I listeners will recognize these hybridizations – as well as Adam’s singularly expressive voice – but the record is not content to sit comfortably in the forward-looking terrain that I and I has mapped out in the past. It pushes forward in various ways…songs increasingly escape standard pop oriented song structures, tending instead to flow from contour to contour, anchored by refrains more than choruses and verses per se…the sounds conjoined here are often more like beds or soil horizons than the staccato clusters of discrete notes that punctuate much of I and I’s recent work…and the emotional tones struck here somehow seem both more attentive to profound sadness and fierce hope. Adam sings “Isolation…isolation…it is only…an illusion,” and the optimism of the line is at the same time tempered and strengthened by the delivery, the harmonic structure, and eventually the spare surroundings of its final refrain: it may be an illusion, but illusions can be hard to snap out of. Still, as the title reminds us, and standout track “The Hardest Part” makes explicit, “the things we hope for…just may come.”
‘The Alpha Future’ will be out May 31st on limited cd, tape and digital.
1. The Future Is Long
2. 1=1
3. Go
4. Soft Science
5. Should Have Been A Beekeeper
6. Headcleaner
7. Illusions
8. The Hardest Part
9. Jaws Of Life
10. Getting Rounder
Less than a week to go before I and I’s ‘The Hardest Part‘ maxi single is out. We’ve got a full stream of the proceedings for you here:
We’ve got The Hardest Part maxi single on mini CD up for pre-order for 8$. It’s a nice looking little thing in a hand made ltd. numbered gate-fold sleeve. Here’s some photos to wet your appetite:
