{"id":13933,"date":"2018-08-08T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13933"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:27:29","slug":"daniel-brandt-announces-second-album-channels-and-shares-lead-single-flamingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=13933","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Brandt announces second album Channels<\/em> and shares lead single ‘Flamingo’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo: \u00d6zge C\u00f6ne<\/p><\/div>\n

Daniel Brandt<\/a>, best know as the drumming force behind Brandt Brauer Frick, has announced details of his second solo album following last year’s outstanding Eternal Something<\/em>. Entitled Channels<\/em>, it arrives on October 12th through Erased Tapes<\/a>. On the new album, Brandt tried to “capture the essence of minimalism whilst lending it to a more playful context,” explains the press release. Channels<\/em> is informed by Brandt’s experience performing and recording Steve Reich\u2019s Six Pianos<\/em> in a six-piece, which influenced him to compose long meditations on the piano. The record’s “frenetic energy and shape-shifting identity was also born out of touring with his new band”, the blurb adds, “and a desire to translate both the sound and spiritual unity of their live shows in which musicians locked together to create an intriguing meld of expansive works”.<\/p>\n

Brandt has let loose the wild and wonderful opening track ‘Flamingo’ and he has also made a video for it. He comments on it:<\/p>\n

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“The video for Flamingo is deliberately non performance – people sitting in a room and watching basically nothing, never really sure if anything is ever going to happen. It’s also a play on John Cage’s 4’33”, except in this instance there isn’t even a performer present”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch it now.<\/p>\n