Shane Aspegren / Describing The Thing EP (to be released October 27, 2023)

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1. Repatterning

2. Describing The Thing

3. Imaginal Pathway

4. iTiS

Composed, played, recorded, & mixed by Shane Aspegren

Mastered by Antony Ryan at Red Red Paw

Describing The Thing comes as a precursor to the forthcoming album Emblems of Transmuting Heat, which was finished a few months prior to the conceptualization of this four track EP. The music from both originates from the same transitional period, during which Shane Aspegren relocated from Hong Kong to Los Angeles. It is the first recorded music that Aspegren has released in some time, and the first solo music ever released under his own name.

Though he has an extensive history playing (drums/synths/machines/vx) with electronic/indie/experimental music projects, in the past decade Aspegren has moved back towards the territory of interdisciplinary art-making, in addition to taking a deep plunge into the healing, meditative, and physical aspects of sound. These latter influences are largely present in this new recorded music: two of the four tracks from the EP (as well as part of the forthcoming album) are reshaped iterations from Aspegren’s installations or artworks. Certain tracks on the forthcoming album also integrate binaural beats (or other meditative experiments) and take their shape through a much more free-tempo and ambient- leaning journey. Describing The Thing on the other hand, also evokes some of these elements of trance-like induction, though here it’s more through steady BPMs and repetition — somehow feeling like a closer connection to his earlier project The Berg Sans Nipple (his duo with Lori Sean Berg.) In this sense, Describing The Thing feels a bit more direct than the impending album, which is largely about subtle synthesis, drone, and texture.