{"id":18324,"date":"2021-10-28T18:50:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2021-10-28T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:50:16","slug":"kyle-bruckmann-releases-double-album-mesmerics-hindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18324","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Bruckmann releases double album <em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18325\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18325\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18325\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyle-Bruckmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyle-Bruckmann.jpg 630w, https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kyle-Bruckmann-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Lenny Gonzalez<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Kyle Bruckmann<\/em> is a man of many talents: a composer, educator, improviser, electronic musician and master oboist. Having been a fixture of the Chicago experimental music underground for several years, he has also built a reputation as a prominent experimental musician in Oakland where he now resides.<br \/>\nBruckmann has just released his first electronic solo album, <em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight<\/em>, a bewilderingly double record that traverses wide-ranging sonic terrains, blending industrial, noise, psych, and trance. The highlight on <em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight A<\/em> is on space while <em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight B<\/em> highlights periodicity. The album &#8220;anachronistically evokes, from a sardonic post-techno vantage point, both late 60s and late 70s experimentation&#8221;, describes the press release. &#8220;By turns hypnotic, immersive, and bludgeoning, Mesmerics\/Hindsight charts an unlikely Venn diagram linking the Day-Glo legacy of the San Francisco Tape Music Center with proto-Industrial\u2019s bleak, gray throb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight<\/em> was composed and crafted between Bruckmann&#8217;s home studio and the electronic music labs of two colleges he teaches at, where he had access to instruments such as the classic Buchla, Moog, and E-mu gear and also more contemporary Eurorack modules. Speaking about the outcome, he described it as &#8220;an interleaved love letter to two volatile junctures (both especially salient in the history of the synthesizer) on which I\u2019ve remained perennially fixated: the heady intersection of \u2018art music\u2019 experimentalism with \u2018popular\u2019 psychedelia as the 60s skidded through the Altamont Pass into the 70s, and the gag reflex of post-punk and industrial as the 70s gave way to the Anglo-American neocon hellscape of the 80s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a staggering taste of what&#8217;s on offer, listen to &#8220;Used To Dance&#8221;, taken from <em>Mesmerics\/Hindsight B<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2725898244\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1825539564\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kylebruckmann.bandcamp.com\/album\/mesmerics-hindsight-b\">Mesmerics\/Hindsight B by Kyle Bruckmann<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Bruckmann is a man of many talents: a composer, educator, improviser, electronic musician and master oboist. Having been a fixture of the Chicago experimental music underground for several years, he has also built a reputation as a prominent experimental musician in Oakland where he now resides. 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