When it comes to the musical arts, some songs transform you to other places quicker than others. Almost from the onset, "Smoke on the Bridge" by Omen Moth, the musical moniker of Central California coast based singer songwriter Kurt Schuler, wraps a smoky hallucinogenic mist around you flowing up from tactile guitar notes that hang in the air, synth driven droning sounds that feel ambient, shifting beats, sinewy bass lines and Schuler's vocal aesthetic that is drenched with character. To me, Schuler's voice feels like that of an actor as much as a singer, their is the wide eyed sense of a storyteller and maybe just a tinge of a drawl whether it be mid-western or slightly southern. There are lovely background vox that are layered in subtly as if to change Schuler's lead vocal character. Love the vocal mix here.
When the music break happens stair stepping in surprising ways, the chordal shapes change pushing psychedelic buttons and then the song spirals out of control with piercing guitar driven sounds. Of course, the mayhem is absolutely controlled but it feels exquisitely furious and feral, sideways like jagged orchestrated art rock turning inside out. It is a total surprise in this song and ends abruptly, segueing into the final verse / chorus coda. Bravo (clapping hands).
Lovely stuff, sweeping, surprising and cinematic. "Smoke on the Bridge" made at White Star Sound and mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus) will be on Omen Moth's debut album entitled "Losing the Names", set for a release this year (2021).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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On Omen Moth's quietly psychedelic debut record "Losing the Names", songwriter Kurt Schuler weaves together stories of heartbreak, faith and identity in a lost era of working class America. Drawing on elements of sixties folk and psychedelia, the record sets the stage for characters whose lives unfold against a backdrop of northwest Lynchian eeriness. A long time native of the Pacific Northwest, Kurt sharpened his songwriting and compositional skills in the Seattle area opening for acts such as Damien Jurado, Pickwick, The Lonely Forest and many others. After working on home recordings in Seattle for many years, Kurt relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia to work with musician/producer Daniel Levi Goans (Lowland Hum, Gold Connections) at White Star Sound on what would eventually become Losing the Names. Working with a team of talented musicians and mixing engineers Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus, Blitzen Trapper) and Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Andy Shauf's The Party), Kurt completed Losing the Names, which is set for release in September of 2021.
If you love what we do here and have been doing for 11 years, please consider donating to out GoFundMe - Thanks Robb
Omen Moth, indie rock, Singer Songwriter, Central California, San Luis Obispo, psychedelic, debut album, "Losing the Names", Kurt Schuler, Seattle, Charlottesville, working class America, "Smoke on the Bridge",
When the music break happens stair stepping in surprising ways, the chordal shapes change pushing psychedelic buttons and then the song spirals out of control with piercing guitar driven sounds. Of course, the mayhem is absolutely controlled but it feels exquisitely furious and feral, sideways like jagged orchestrated art rock turning inside out. It is a total surprise in this song and ends abruptly, segueing into the final verse / chorus coda. Bravo (clapping hands).
Lovely stuff, sweeping, surprising and cinematic. "Smoke on the Bridge" made at White Star Sound and mixed by Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus) will be on Omen Moth's debut album entitled "Losing the Names", set for a release this year (2021).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.instagram.com/omenmoth/
https://soundcloud.com/omenmoth
https://www.facebook.com/omenmoth
https://omenmoth.bandcamp.com/
On Omen Moth's quietly psychedelic debut record "Losing the Names", songwriter Kurt Schuler weaves together stories of heartbreak, faith and identity in a lost era of working class America. Drawing on elements of sixties folk and psychedelia, the record sets the stage for characters whose lives unfold against a backdrop of northwest Lynchian eeriness. A long time native of the Pacific Northwest, Kurt sharpened his songwriting and compositional skills in the Seattle area opening for acts such as Damien Jurado, Pickwick, The Lonely Forest and many others. After working on home recordings in Seattle for many years, Kurt relocated to Charlottesville, Virginia to work with musician/producer Daniel Levi Goans (Lowland Hum, Gold Connections) at White Star Sound on what would eventually become Losing the Names. Working with a team of talented musicians and mixing engineers Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Stephen Malkmus, Blitzen Trapper) and Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Andy Shauf's The Party), Kurt completed Losing the Names, which is set for release in September of 2021.
If you love what we do here and have been doing for 11 years, please consider donating to out GoFundMe - Thanks Robb
Omen Moth, indie rock, Singer Songwriter, Central California, San Luis Obispo, psychedelic, debut album, "Losing the Names", Kurt Schuler, Seattle, Charlottesville, working class America, "Smoke on the Bridge",
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