SKIES OKAY BLUE (EP)

With "Skies Okay Blue" Nonplace offers two pared-down vocal tracks that place subtle and unexpected rhythms alongside the manifest regularity of electronic dance music. Measuring in at DJ-friendly 122 to 128 bpm, the seemingly straightforward grooves turn out, on closer listening, to be intertwined with uneven beats: 12 in the case of A1, 5 in the case of B1. These beats, ubiquitously and erroneously described as špolyrhythms›, are based merely on the combination of the always unalterable even metre  in this case bass drum and hi-hat  with superimposed, actually formative, rhythms recognizable by a cycle of sequences, melody, bass or percussion, etc. Extra-long versions of both tracks were mixed for this 45rpm super-sound EP. The third track, šSilberne Libelle›, is a 2-minute sound poem featuring Friedman-typical xenophile instrumentation. All three tracks are exclusive to this vinyl edition. The voice of Daniel Dodd-Ellis, a Berlin-based performer and vocalist from Texas, was first heard on Burnt Friedman™s 2007 album First Night Forever (non22). The lyrics stem from both artists and were cut-up and re-assembled several times over by Friedman during production in 2013 and 2014. The line šSkies are blue inside of you› comes from Aldous Huxley™s novel Brave New World, which appeared in 1932. Theo Altenberg ( Cover Artwork ) lives in Berlin and works in the media of performance and music, language, painting, and video.