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Happy Birthday, Ibby!
@ibbycolbert did the design for the Illegal Art reboot & Myth Math web pages, helps with social media, and is doing editing for an upcoming Myth Math video appropriation. She's also family.
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Tongues lyric detail #1
A recurring theme on Tongues is self-expression. This wasn’t intentional, but it became obvious as the refrains for “Deep Down” and “Lift” landed with “our tongues untied” and “let me riff.” And the final track, “Our Lips,” also touches on this with the phrase “our lips are moving.”
I could mention many things on this theme, but I’ll start with the embrace of songwriting in the Myth Math project.
In college, I tinkered with songs, but it felt naive and pedestrian. Years later, though, I felt I wanted to say more than I was able to with abstract electronic sounds, improvised noise, or micro-sample cut-ups. Even though I immersed myself in experimental music traditions (a nice oxymoron), I was a fan of singer-songwriters. In fact, sampling was a means of embedding experimental audio with the patina of song. So, I embarked on finding my voice as a songwriter. And if they’re my songs, I should probably sing them.
The second line in “Deep Down,” “my lungs are full of silent words,” is an aspirational sentiment that somewhere inside I have meaningful put-it-on-my-sleeve stories to tell. I’m tapping into the abundance of expressive possibilities that exist in writing, singing, and producing songs. In my mind, there’s a clear backstory and emotional underpinning to each track on Tongues, as veiled as some of it may still be.
#tongueslyricdetail
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Deep Down cover art by Joji Koyama @jojikoyama
Joji created artwork for the Tongues vinyl EP along with an image for each song
vinyl preorder link in bio
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lead single from the forthcoming Tongues EP
July 10th on Illegal Art
VINYL/STREAMING
link in bio
VIDEO CREDITS
Illustration by Thu Tran @thu_tran__
3D Animation by Andrew Strasser @pixelmozart
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after 13+ years of hiatus we are finally rebooting!
out now:
Myth Math “Deep Down” single & video
new project by Illegal Art founder
see @mythmath_ bio for links
forthcoming:
• Myth Math - Tongues EP (vinyl) - out July 10
• untitled EP (vinyl) - produced by Girl Talk with soon-to-be-announced artists!
• People Like Us - The RHiZOME LP (lathe-cut vinyl + CD)
• Yea Big + Kid Static - On a Tangent EP (cassette) & Adapting to Gravity LP (vinyl)
plus we will be adding the entire Illegal Art archive from 1998-2012 for free streaming & download on Bandcamp
stay tuned for updates on new releases, and archival material from Illegal Art as we celebrate the relaunch
