pan y rosas release ribcage/davidsongs by cut a lonely figure!

Cut A Lonely Figure (formerly known as Thank You, Merciless Onlookers) is the musical alias of Blue Tapes and X-Ray Records founder David McNamee.

His new album for pan y rosas consists of two pices. ribcage is a longform brutalist piano composition figuratively depicting two pianos being slowly pulled apart and then pushed back together over the course of its pounding 23-minute runtime. The second piece, davidsongs, is a medley of semi-improvised pieces for chamber organ and piano that functions as a sort of comedown or balm from the intensity of the a-side.

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pan y rosas release thank you, merciless onlookers!

david mcnamee is a writer, artist, musician, and music label founder/operator.

david selected one track from each of the houses he lived in during a period of psychic wrongness, and rechristened each piece after the area it was recorded in – brighton, kilburn, camden, tottenham, brixton. it’s not so much an exercise in nostalgia, as an exorcism – a way of driving a stake through that time and these songs. of finishing. instinctive sketches that felt right to make. badly-recorded “not music.”

distortion drone flange. baroque gamelan. electro beats. soundtrack.

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