Chillmander
The album art is a perfect depiction of how you will feel while jamming out to this tune, floating along on a cloud. Always looking forward to the next drop from Dougie Stu!
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Doug Stuart is a producer, composer, and session musician based out of Los Angeles. His debut album, Familiar Future, was released on Ropeadope Records in the fall of 2020 and featured guitarist Jeff Parker in the context of Stuart’s compositions, production, and arrangements. He co-writes and produces as part of the electronic indie duo, Brijean, along with Brijean Murphy. The duo has several releases on Ghostly International. In addition to producing and playing on records for many other artists, Stuart also composes music for the NPR podcasts Snap Judgment and Spooked
Doug says of the track, “This song started from a voice memo that I recorded on our patio one morning. It was just a few chords on acoustic guitar with some birds and kids laughing in the background (heard near the end of the song), but I liked the forward momentum that the rhythm and chords implied. I abstracted and expanded the orchestration of this little idea and came up with the bulk of what is heard in the song, “Silhouettes”. Near the end of the process, the song really came to life when I recorded my friend Kosta Galanopoulos playing drums and my partner Brijean Murphy playing percussion over it. The two vignettes that are heard in the very beginning and end of the song were lucky finds from some OP1 experiments that I recorded onto the cassette which was used to master the song.”
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
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