BREADWINTER
Breadwinter.2
MUSIC
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| LABEL: | Mumble Mumble |
| RELEASE DATE: | February 2014 |
| FORMAT: | CD |
| PARTICIPANTS: | Dan Susnara |
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HIROSHIMA YEAH!, Issue #110, April 2014 For the uninitiated, breadwinter (the name’s in lower-case, like e.e. cummings, .will.i.am and k.d. lang... and I bet that’s the first and LAST time THOSE names have been in a sentence together) is the largely instrumental side-project of Chicago home-taper and all-around good guy Dan Susnara, and this is his second release under that moniker. I say “largely instrumental” but there are LOTS of spoken-word samples all over this album and I’m SURE some of the first track (“controlled by the government”...lower-case letters again, do you see?) are from a film called “The Master” which, coincidentally (or WAS it a coincidence?), I’d only watched two or three days prior to playing this disc! Weird or WHAT?! The music Dan creates is sometimes ambient, sometimes trancey, sometimes modern classical-ish, with the odd detour into the land of fractured bleeps and an occasional pinch of oriental flavor. The overall vibe really does remind me greatly of Nurse With Wound, especially on the eerie final track “and further still”...which includes Charles Manson samples, and another piece containing snippets from a film about the Zodiac killer. Spooky shit!—Mark Ritchie |