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Sam Prekop
country: USA
genre: Electronic
styles: Modular Synth, Electronica
ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Sam Prekop’s boundless imagination is guided by his strong sense of melody. For more than 25 years, as a solo artist or as part of The Sea and Cake, Prekop creates a singular sound inventive and warm. His distinctive vocals, guitar playing and work on modular analog synthesizers are inventive, delicate, and always bear his signature sense of melody. Comma finds Sam Prekop for the first time working extensively with beat programming, focusing his enveloping synthesizer pieces around a newfound rhythmic pulse.
Prekop’s creative process is a combination of preparation and improvisation. Writing sessions for Comma began with an open-ended exploration of sounds and textures from which the first fragments of songs would reveal themselves. The introduction of drum machines and additional synthesizer units to his modular setup shifted things in surprising new directions as he worked to bend them into more traditional pop song structures. Drum tracks and emergent rhythms provided the frameworks and narrative sketches to be fleshed out with lustrous widescreen synth pads and ribboning melodies. In approaching his writing with a completely open mind and letting himself be guided by the music, Prekop maintains a delicate balance between composition and chance, control and spontaneity. Comma embraces the analogue synthesizer’s often unpredictable nature, imbuing the record with a decidedly organic feel even while working within the relative rigidity of beat architectures.
Releases
LP
The Sparrow
out on September 30, 2022
via TAL
LP
Sons Of
out on July 22, 2022
via Thrill Jockey
Single
Saturday Sunday
out on June 15, 2022
via Longform Editions
Single
A Ghost At Noon
out on June 08, 2022
via Thrill Jockey
LP
Comma
out on September 11, 2020
via Thrill Jockey Records
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