1/07/2022

LUMBEROB Announces Debut LP, Shares "BLESSENCE" Single + Music Video via BV

LUMBEROB Announces Debut LP, Shares "BLESSENCE"
Single + Music Video via Brooklyn Vegan

Read the V13Rock N LoadDECLUNKPopWrapped, and Elmore Magazine Features

LANGUAGE LEARNER LP Due February 18, 2022 via Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings
Mixed and Co-Produced by KRAMER
 
Photo by Joanne Leah
PRE-ORDER: LUMBEROB - LANGUAGE LEARNER
Shimmy-Disc

LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: LUMBEROB - "BLESSENCE"
Stream / YouTube

"The track is a chaotic good time; an explosive blend of synth-tinged interludes, swirling vocals and psychedelic chords, and there’s an addictiveness to the song that may leave listeners wanting more, a sure-sign of a brilliant, audience friendly release that teases the possibilities of what may come in the future."
Popwrapped

"Matching the amusement and the tone of its accompanying single, the music video for Lumberob’s new song 'BLESSENCE' can’t help but charm you. Lighthearted, playful, and undoubtedly quirky, the video is an accurate representation of what Lumberob is all about, an artist not afraid to let his odd side reign free."
V13

“The text. WOW. And the music, I’m deep in now. It's really fucking good and so different. Almost like fast MoonDog. Really really fucking good.”
- PENN JILLETTE (Penn & Teller)


“There’s LUMBEROB — he’s the best band around. He’s like Aphex Twin meets Bobby McFerrin. He’s like a one man party in your mouth. In the mouth of your ear.”
- Vernon Chatman & John Lee (WONDER SHOWZEN, XAVIER: RENEGADE ANGEL, PEE WEE’s BIG HOLIDAY, BROAD CITY, DELOCATED, FALSE POSITIVE, and Vernon is voice of Towelie on South Park)

“Lumberob’s shows construct themselves out of repetition and layering; live-mixed playback turns his monologues into the audio version of a mise-en-abyme, echoes of his recorded voice expanding into a long tunnel of sense made nonsense… Lumberob is one of those world-building Tricksters. These are the games that break form apart to make something valuable and new.”
- Helen Shaw (TIME OUT, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, VULTURE)

“Lumberob is a terrible witch doctor. You’ve seen the forest in which he works his dark sono-linguistic magic, but only from the outside. Enter its interior, and you’ll be ecstatically sorry.”
- Sibyl Kempson, playwright

“Artists of the world, listen to this: you have nothing to lose but your equilibrium. Throughout his music there is a lyric impulse, a rising of the heart, a moral passion that represents the spirit of the millennium at its best. At the same time Lumberob’s music is exceedingly rigorous; he has the optimism of his generation without its willed naiveté”
- Anne Gridley, actor, company member Nature Theater of Oklahoma

“Lumberob’s music is the most intoxicating and addictive drug available.”
- Pavol Lisa, director and founder Nature Theater of Oklahoma

“Rob has a ferocity that is captivating, intense, dizzy. We cannot stop looking at him, and then the unique rhythms get all flustery, stuck inside us and lock. He demands engagement. We can’t help it.”
- Dana Edell PhD, director

Today, LUMBEROB announces his long-awaited debut LP, LANGUAGE LEARNER, due February 18, 2022 via Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings. Alongside the announcement, he has shared the record's first single, "BLESSENCE," with an accompanying music video. 

Speaking on the single, Rob wrote: "'BLESSENCE' is a smooth little lumberob jammer, stumbling heavy and sweet. Structure is all suspension, waiting for the clarity of the lyric… I AM DANGER. There’s plenty to worry about. SHANNON PLUMB and I have made a lovely dance, an instructive dance showing how to move to the BLESSENCE groove. It is a smooth little jammer, stumbling heavy and sweet. It carves out your heart with its sharp edge. I AM DANGER."

At times slippery like an energized Dada sound poet strapped to a bouncing electro-skank machine stuck in wannabe dub cumbia raga mode, all swathed in the psychedelic dark lord Kramer’s exquisite wall of wonder, LANGUAGE LEARNER is the eclectic electro-bounce art pop debut LP from scrappy, old sono-linguistic loop artist LUMBEROB, mixed by the dark psychedelic lord Kramer for the resurrected Shimmy-Disc record label.

As an energetic force in the downtown New York performance art noise scene for over fifteen years, LUMBEROB is releasing his debut solo LP - LANGUAGE LEARNER - on SHIMMY-DISC. Having collaborated now for over 23 years, Kramer and LUMBEROB understand how to make rather majestic messes. This music is urgent madness, overflowingly decorative, lusciously spastic, with an unpredictably eclectic sonic vaudeville energy. LUMBEROB emerged from a year in Costa Rica with a bag full of pandemic recordings.  As a rejuvenated yet still scrappy loop artist expanding his sound with synth bass and drum machines, yet still rooted in improvised vocal phrase looping and skanky guitar, LUMBEROB insists this album LANGUAGE LEARNER to be a bold exercise in genre discovery or genre blur, proudly assuming its position in high contrast to other recent gorgeously crafted Shimmy-Disc releases. It is this contrast that’s reminiscent of the wildly divergent and inventive catalog curated by Kramer from decades past. This debut is an odd blend of ingredients, but the concept is relentlessly pure LUMBEROB. Participants in Costa Rica include David Mendez playing nylon string, Alicia Cigna singing, Ariel Soto playing partial kit and conga, and Juan Jose Lopez playing bongos. Additional sessions in Brooklyn include Tobin Scroggins playing guitar and Becca Stabile singing. Kramer added bits and pieces throughout during his mixing and mastering of the album. Call it Dada Ska - a skanky electro-bounce. This is dance music for working things out. This is workout music for dancing things, and the live show is truly the daffy psychedelic roughneck business.

RIYL (Recommended If You Like): early WEEN, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Dat Politics, Prince Buster, Thinking Fellars Union Local 282, Deerhoof, Captain Beefheart, Young Marble Giants, Jad Fair, They Might Be Giants, Dan Deacon, Reggie Watts, Bob Cobbing, Jaap Blonk, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters.

LUMBEROB - "BLESSENCE"
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