One in a Googolplex’s new single “Seven Lives and Tasty Mice/Just Like You” is now available to download! Follow the links on the release page to listen and download or you will sorely regret it.
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New OiaG single out today
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Seven Lives and Tasty Mice
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Straight out of Germany, Sebastian of One in a Googolplex has graced us with two new songs for an upcoming digital single. “Seven Lives and Tasty Mice” backed with “Just Like You” continue with the strengths of his first two releases but move in a heavier, more beat oriented direction. Their is also a strong 8 bit, glitchy element to these songs that provides a nice contrast to the sonorous vocals. The lyrics and art take the cosmic element of OiaG to a new astral plane! The blogoshpere seems to be liking the new tunes. Popstereo said “Broken hearted, broken pop made with broken synths have truly never sounded so good.” The single will be out next Tues. the 9th and next week we’ll be posting a video for “Just Like You” until then here’s an alternate version of the cover art.
Strange Power
Friday, October 9th, 2009Music can have interesting synesthetic qualities. Certain songs can seem to reflect and even shape your experiences and the world around you. The way we feel, the thoughts we have and the events that happen can all have interesting relationships with the songs that seem to be fitting accompaniments. A song you hear today you may love but tomorrow may not be that intriguing or appropriate for your mood. Sometimes you can’t stop wanting to hear a song because it fits so well with the season and the mood you’re in. Two such songs that I’ve been really hooked on lately have been Eric’s forthcoming single “Strange Power/So She Says”. Something about these two songs seems to codify the falling leaves, cool breezes and confusing changes that Autumn always brings with it. They speak of relationships and strange powers that affect us in ways we can’t explain and can’t ignore. They convey a mood, much like Autumn, which is invigorating like the first cold winds that blow but that has an element of sadness and the poignant fleeting nature of life.
In a way, this new single evokes a similar feeling and kinship with one of my favorite records (and one that was influential in getting me back into music after a hiatus) The Pistol Arrows ‘Look’. That being said these new songs are definitely fresh and new and unlike anything that Eric has previously recorded. I guess it would be appropriate to call this single a true double A sided single. Neither song is a B side or lesser accomplishment. ‘Strange Power’ the lead off, starts off with ominous piano and drums not unlike the children’s song ‘Halloween’s Coming’ and from there it maintains this thumping pensive groove under lyrics of the Strange Power of attraction. There is a full sparseness here that feels like nothing extraneous is present and all the parts are working synergistically together. The song does away with the traditional A, B type structure as it enters an upbeat outro section that nicely segues into the feeling of the second song. The outro lyrics evoke the poignant feeling I mentioned earlier and there is a sense of resolve about the fact that many things in life are never resolved. ‘So She Says’ starts off with a mysterious upbeat modern New Wave type vibe and progresses along that line interweaving synths, drums, guitars and vocals in ways not often heard this side of something great like Modern English’s ‘Melt With You’. “It’s too dark in this house” nicely encapsulates the sentiment of a lot of the lyrics which explore parting and relationships and the “houses” where such things take place.
In short, this has been an attempt to describe how much I love these songs and to preview what you will soon be hearing when they are released early next month. We have a lot of other good releases on the way which we’ll be mentioning in future postings. I will soon be heading over to Norway to play some I and I shows. You can read more details on that on my iandimusic.com site and I hope to post some stuff here and there on the trip. For now I’ll leave you with the cover of Eric’s new single below. Appropriately it’s a photo of Eric’s friend trying to catch the setting sun.
Adam
New e-single and video from Eric Sarmiento available
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009After working for four years on his 2008/2009 full-length ‘the declaration of interdependence’ Eric had more than a few ideas for new songs stored up. “At some point in the album making process, I kind of decided I had written everything I was going to write for ‘the declaration’ and from then on I was just tweaking and reworking the original batch of songs for that record” he says. “But during that process of refining the album, tons of new ideas were coming out of the work, as well as the stuff that was going on in my life. I didn’t have time to flesh out the ideas, but most of them I got down in a kind of rough draft, demo form.” As soon as the final mixing and mastering work was done on ‘the declaration’, Eric started work on exploring the cache of demos he had built up, some of which turned into the two songs on the new internet-only single ‘Alejandra Told Me/Hypnosis’.
Both of the new songs were influenced by the energetic grit, beauty, and earthy grandeur of Valencia, Spain where they were written. “I loved walking around the labyrinth of tiny streets winding through stone buildings, listening to headphones or the crowds of people hanging out late at night,” Eric tells us. “One night I went to a party that, while not unusually cool or exciting -just full of nice and interesting people talking and listening to good music- somehow became the site of some heavy revelations for me. I went home and wrote ‘Alejandra’ that night.”
The ‘b-side’ of the single, ‘Hypnosis’ is a quieter affair, delving into spaces of memory, by way of a hazy wash of reverb-laden voices, guitars, harmonium and synths. When pressed for comment on this one, Eric told the following anecdote: “I had breakfast with some friends a while back, and one couple there had just come from somewhere in Arizona, where they entered some kind of nexus of energy, I think they called it a “vortex” which happened to be occupied by a sauna. The interesting thing is that they couldn’t just go straight to the vortex by going to the sauna, but instead had to walk through a series of spaces in the desert and nearby towns and then go to the sauna before arriving at the vortex.”
…. Whatever that may mean, we’re glad to say that the creative flows set in motion during the finishing stages of ‘the declaration….’ are reportedly still going strong, and Eric plans to release several more e-singles over the coming months. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, the new release can be checked out here, where you’ll also find links to itunes, emusic, and other online retail sites where you can buy the tracks. To see Jeffrey Palmer’s brilliant video for ‘Alejandra Told Me’
Finally, speaking of ‘the declaration…’, you can now purchase downloads of the whole album at a plethora of online retail sites as well. To do so, click here where the record can be listened to for free, and cd copies can be ordered directely from us.
