Night Fishing to Release Debut EP Live Bait April 21; Video Posted
A fascinating turn here for Denver guitarist Zach Amster, whose other outfit Abrams recently announced a tour for May in the company of BleakHeart (dates here), and joins members of Green Druid, Muscle Beach and Call of the Void in the new instrumentalist four-piece Night Fishing. One doesn’t even have to get through the nine-minute entirety of “Alone With My Thoughts” — which one surely is when fishing at night; I’d also like to mention that my phone corrected ‘thoughts’ to ‘thighs’ there, which would be a winner as regards typos — to get the sense of shift that Night Fishing‘s impending Brutal Panda-delivered three-songer, Live Bait (getting the theme?), is playing toward. There’s some of Slift‘s Euro-style space boogie in there, along with a touch of psychedelic atmosphere, but a solid rhythm lies beneath the sprawl of its exploration, and you would definitely still call it rock rather than a loose lysergic jam. There’s a plan at work.
That’s something Night Fishing shares with Abrams, but the absence of vocals is interesting. They could probably tour Europe on these songs for two months, hit festivals and whatnot, and never look back, and nor could they be faulted for doing exactly that if it came to it. Of course, I don’t know what they will or won’t — I haven’t even heard the other two tracks here yet, so any assessment of aesthetic is partial at best — but when I think about Abrams poppish aspects next to this, let alone the other members’ main projects, it feels like a change that’s worth noting and I look forward to where it might lead, even if that’s just a lot of riffs about fishing. Here for it, in the parlance of our times, or, more likely, a couple years ago. I’m always behind on that shit.
The PR wire has the AI art, release info and the song stream. Live Bait is out April 21. Enjoy:
Instrumental Psych Rockers NIGHT FISHING Share New Single, “Alone With My Thoughts”, + Video
New EP, ‘Live Bait’, Out April 21st via Brutal Panda Records
Pre-Orders are available via Bandcamp HERE: https://nightfishing303.bandcamp.com/album/live-bait
And Brutal Panda HERE: https://www.brutalpandarecords.com/
Brutal Panda Records will release ‘Live Bait’, the debut EP from Denver, CO’s NIGHT FISHING, on April 21st. Comprised of four seasoned Rocky Mountain Road Dogs (members of Call of the Void, Green Druid, Abrams, Muscle Beach), NIGHT FISHING exist to explore the boundaries of improvisation, mood and structure within the realms of heavy, instrumental sound. Today, they’re revealing the music video for “Alone With My Thoughts,” the record’s second single.
Across three tracks and 25+ minutes of fuzzed-out Heavy Psych, hypnotic Krautrock and free-form jazz, NIGHT FISHING seamlessly weave together a melting pot of brain-liquifying sonic euphoria. An experience that could only be formulated live in the studio and within the confines of the moment…NIGHT FISHING is for lovers and will take you where the vibe wants to go.
Drummer Gordon Koch, who also created the album’s trippy artwork via Artificial Intelligence, commented on how the project came together:
“NIGHT FISHING is a Heavy Psych/Krautrock improv concept I mulled over during the lockdown period of the initial COVID-19 outbreak. My longtime touring metal band (Call of the Void) had just broken up (December 2019) and my jazz connection had moved out of state so I had no musical prospects while I was held up in my apartment. I wanted to combine elements of improv jazz into a rock format using light song structure to allow for more natural flow of solos, giving each player room to breathe and express themselves. Once the city opened back up a little bit I hit the pavement looking for players. I found 3 friends from the Denver metal scene who were looking for something different and could handle the riffage!
“This EP was recorded live, as both an audio and visual experience, by Chris McNaughton at Rocky Mountain Recorders. We sat in the round with a full camera crew in the studio, led by Alex Pace, to capture the moment and energy, bouncing solos off each other all in one take. I feel like these first songs are a more “live” experience so I wanted the video crew there to allow everyone to join us. We were mostly familiar with all the hits but use a lot of eye contact and musical cues to move things along. This session was a BLAST to record, I think about 4 hours total in the room.”
He elaborated further on their second single “Alone With My Thoughts”, saying:
“This was our first song written as a group that took the NIGHT FISHING idea to fruition. Once we played it live in front of people we knew we had a great formula to expand on.”
‘Live Bait’ will see an April 21st release on tape, CD and digital formats.
A super limited deluxe, tackle box edition complete with a one-of-a-kind fishing certificate will also be available along with a gently used fishing vessel, limited to 1, for the TRUE DIE-HARDS ONLY!
NIGHT FISHING will be performing a record release show at The Crypt on April 28th in Denver, CO
‘Live Bait’ Track List:
1. Alone with My Thoughts
2. No Services
3. Slapback Twister
About NIGHT FISHING:
Four Denver road dogs (Call of the Void, Green Druid, Abrams, Muscle Beach) having a good time in the space of improvisation and slight structure. Heavy psych and Krautrock with jazz rules, a project meant to include both listeners and musicians.
We go where the vibe is pushing us. NIGHT FISHING is for lovers.
NIGHT FISHING are:
Gordon Koch – Drums
Graham Zander – Guitar
Zach Amster – Guitar
Justin Sanderson – Bass
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