{"id":11841,"date":"2017-02-21T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T21:29:11","slug":"listen-to-daniel-brandts-chaparral-mesa-off-forthcoming-solo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Daniel Brandt&#8217;s &#8216;Chaparral Mesa&#8217; off forthcoming solo album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Brandt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11842\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Brandt.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Brandt\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Brandt.jpg 750w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daniel-Brandt-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>Last month we heard &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=11674\">Kale Me<\/a>&#8216;, the first single lifted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thedanielbrandt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Brandt<\/a>&#8216;s upcoming debut album <em>Eternal Something<\/em>. Brandt, who normally dazzles us as one third of Brandt Brauer Frick on drumming duties, is teasing the album again with a new single, &#8216;Chaparral Mesa&#8217; where he shines playing and building layers of guitars. Named after his time recording in California between Joshua Tree and Malibu, the track builds slowly before turning &#8220;into a sea of organized electronic chaos&#8221;, as the press release describes. Brandt himself explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I recorded Chaparral Mesa a year ago while I was involved in a recording session for another album in Malibu. We had rented a very beautiful place overlooking hills and the sea and we had a nice basic setup to record in there with a few guitars and a moog synth. I started recording a lot of guitars on top of each other and somehow the song arranged itself. I didn&#8217;t really touch it and just went along with naturally had to happen within the song. Later I added the second part, the drum-heavy one. This one was based on a session I once had with my friend Bryan Philips from Chile when I was visiting him in La Serena. I took the basics from that session and added a lot of new drums later on when I was at a proper studio and then added that part to the new song. In the end Chaparral Mesa was the quickest made song on the album but has also become the longest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch out for the release of <em>Eternal Something<\/em> on March 24th via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erasedtapes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erased Tapes<\/a>. Now listen to &#8216;Chaparral Mesa&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/308006259&amp;color=c41709&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month we heard &#8216;Kale Me&#8216;, the first single lifted from Daniel Brandt&#8216;s upcoming debut album Eternal Something. Brandt, who normally dazzles us as one third of Brandt Brauer Frick on drumming duties, is teasing the album again with a new single, &#8216;Chaparral Mesa&#8217; where he shines playing and building layers of guitars. 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