Brooklyn quartet Wilder Maker shares “Last Call at the Star’s Ascent,” one final single from Smoking the Bunny , the second volume of their trilogy of improvisation-based LPs, following last year’s The Streets Like Beds Still Warm . The album is due Friday (Nov 6) via Western Vinyl, with guest appearances from Katie Von Schleicher, Macie Stewart, Joseph Shabason, Chuck Johnson, Kitba, and more.
“‘Last Call At The Star’s Ascent’ is the first track I finished across the entire three LP arc ( Smoking the Bunny is LP2), and I remember playing it for the band and realizing that I could actually make music that sounded like this, doing whatever the hell I wanted,” Gabriel Birnbaum says. “I built a drum machine out of old tape machine breakbeats and played it by hand, and then ran it through the ‘Interference’ setting on the Chroma Console to create hitches and hiccups. I pitch-shifted the original vocals to create a choir of robotic harmonies. I wrote a lyric alternating jokes with despair and decay. Last call is a time of chaos when all the rules are upside down and as such it is a time of great beauty and freedom.”
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