Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Recording: Happy Baby

Artist: Happy Baby

Songs: Salty + Lapis Lazuli*

Recorded at The Dupe Shop (Quiet Bedrooms presents QB3), October 1, 2017.

Happy Baby - Salty

Happy Baby - Lapis Lazuli

Videographer/archivist Brandon Caswell Douglas' efforts to bring quiet listening experiences (complete with a request for quiet applause!) continued at The Dupe Shop, afternoon sunlight streaming in, and sidewalk flâneurs pausing to peer in at the sounds drifting by. It was a delight to discover this self-professed "aggressively earnest soft noise twinkle pop band" (operating at three-quarters of their full capacity) whose m.o. appeared to operate around a will to co-operate and an innovative spirit. Sharing one microphone for the purposes of collaborative looping, they mixed keyb, banjo, clarinet, water bottle slurp-gurgles and more into songs and soundscapes.

[Quiet Bedrooms' next event — QB5 for those keeping score at home — is this Friday (November 10th) at LP's LPs and features and excellent lineup of Carl Didur, NPNP & Deenzi. Happy Baby (or perhaps a different subset thereof) will be playing at Del Stephen's Tranzac Tiki Room show on Tuesday, November 21st alongside Slow Man Tofu and "a variety of grass-themed poetry and art".]

* Thanks to the band for passing along the titles to these!

2 comments:

  1. The first song is called Salty and the second song is called Lapis Lazuli! Thanks for the sweet recording :~)

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