"can you feel love / can you feel love???"
The ramping up synths and overall emotional sensations while listening to "Ripple", no less LIVE, by Late Aster, San Francisco based musicians Aaron Messing (vocals, keyboards, trumpet) and Anni Hochhalter (vocals, French horn, drum machine) in collaboration with Brooklyn based musicians Charles Mueller (guitar, bass, audio engineering), and Cameron LeCrone (drums and percussion), is both a beautiful and alarming thing.
Discussing “Ripple”, Late Aster noted, “We were so taken with the undeniably spiritual experience of trips to Black Rock Desert. The stark and stunning landscape made for a perfect backdrop for ‘Ripple’ and its accompanying video. The track opens with an ominous and pitch bendy synthesizer, and culminates in a French horn soliloquy floating on top of a pulsing electronic brass texture.”
The hard percolating edges, combined with haunting vocals and blend of horns and keys creates an emotional synesthesia. For me, at times the sensation is like a growing panic attack that doesn't happen. You might feel something different, of course, but whatever you are feeling I would venture to say that it is a compelling experience. How could it not be. This incredibly artful dreaminess that Late Aster creates feels stunningly otherworldly and perfect for film. I could see their creations used with great effect in works that cross boundaries, or reshape them all together, like Kristoffer Borgli's 'Dream Scenario' or Charlie Kaufman's 'Being John Malkovich'.
The hard percolating edges, combined with haunting vocals and blend of horns and keys creates an emotional synesthesia. For me, at times the sensation is like a growing panic attack that doesn't happen. You might feel something different, of course, but whatever you are feeling I would venture to say that it is a compelling experience. How could it not be. This incredibly artful dreaminess that Late Aster creates feels stunningly otherworldly and perfect for film. I could see their creations used with great effect in works that cross boundaries, or reshape them all together, like Kristoffer Borgli's 'Dream Scenario' or Charlie Kaufman's 'Being John Malkovich'.
"Ripple" by Late Aster feels so immersive, a dream within a dream.
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hgrsIagdceAwYCyOSB2BY
https://www.instagram.com/late.aster/?hl=en
https://slowandsteadyrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/slow-steady-presents-late-aster-slugish-ensemble-bandcamp-oakland-sept-29th
https://lateaster.bandcamp.com/album/light-rail-session
https://www.facebook.com/lateastermusic/
Late Aster is San Francisco based musicians Aaron Messing (vocals, keyboards, trumpet) and Anni Hochhalter (vocals, French horn, drum machine) in collaboration with Brooklyn based musicians Charles Mueller (guitar, bass, audio engineering), and Cameron LeCrone (drums and percussion). Their songs are driven by brass instruments, electronics, and voice, producing new music rooted in classical and jazz traditions with the sounds of bebop and alternative rock. Late Aster’s debut EP True and Toxic is a collection of musical sketches on the modern human condition. Focused on relationships, politics, science, and digital society, the songs string together disparate mediums and influences—digital and analogue, silicon and brass, composed and improvisatory—to create a soundtrack for the polarizing present. Each song is paired with visual accompaniment created in collaboration with four/ten media, Deadeye Press, Harrison Atkins, and Kelsey Boncato.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hgrsIagdceAwYCyOSB2BY
https://www.instagram.com/late.aster/?hl=en
https://slowandsteadyrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/slow-steady-presents-late-aster-slugish-ensemble-bandcamp-oakland-sept-29th
https://lateaster.bandcamp.com/album/light-rail-session
https://www.facebook.com/lateastermusic/
Late Aster is San Francisco based musicians Aaron Messing (vocals, keyboards, trumpet) and Anni Hochhalter (vocals, French horn, drum machine) in collaboration with Brooklyn based musicians Charles Mueller (guitar, bass, audio engineering), and Cameron LeCrone (drums and percussion). Their songs are driven by brass instruments, electronics, and voice, producing new music rooted in classical and jazz traditions with the sounds of bebop and alternative rock. Late Aster’s debut EP True and Toxic is a collection of musical sketches on the modern human condition. Focused on relationships, politics, science, and digital society, the songs string together disparate mediums and influences—digital and analogue, silicon and brass, composed and improvisatory—to create a soundtrack for the polarizing present. Each song is paired with visual accompaniment created in collaboration with four/ten media, Deadeye Press, Harrison Atkins, and Kelsey Boncato.
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