An Intolerant Disdain Of Underlings
Sahy Uhns will release his debut album “An Intolerant Disdain Of Underlings” on October 18th 2011, both digitally and on CD as part of a 5″x5″ book featuring a collection of photographs from the deserts of California that inspired the album. Sahy Uhns’ record is an amalgamation of ambient soundscapes, field recordings, generative synthesis, hard-hitting beats and rich analog sounds – always with a sound design driven production that is uniquely “Sahy Uhns.”
Tracklisting
1. Montebello Postpartum
2. My Very Own Mariana Trench
3. Anticipation of the Night
4. War Song
5. Fever. Chills and Sweats
6. Earning Bridges
7. Rain Song
8. 13.73 ± 0.12 Billion
9. I’mage
10. Ice Plant / Newly Destitute
11. Randsburg
12. We Offer Our Silent Presence
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Montebello Postpartum from Proximal Records on Vimeo.
The video was shot by Sahy Uhns using an iPhone and Sony Digital8 Handycam. He then transferred much of the footage to VHS tape and digitized it. The video was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.
Sahy Uhns’ Explanation:
“The video imagines a future memory of a mother and interprets how that day was perceived through the eyes of her child. It begins in the early morning, a time of peace preceding the chaos of the rest of the mother’s day. Throughout the video, the point of view switches between first-person accounts of the memory from the perspective of the mother and the child and my own reflection on their relationship. The middle section of the video attempts to depict the kind of over-saturation of information and concepts that a child is flooded with and how it must feel to make sense of them. An inundation of images that super-impose and intersect, revealing their similarities and differences, becomes a visualization of the child’s analytical process. The closing segment of the video takes us back to the perspective of the mother, watching her child until his image is the last thing she sees as she fades into sleep.”
Dedicated to: Montserrat & Ian Gael
Sahy Uhns featured in Société Perrier‘s My 5 Favorite Things column
Underground SoCal producer Carl Madison Burgin (a.k.a. Sahy Uhns, which, by the way, is pronounced science) draws from hip-hop and electronic to formulate his heady, always challenging soundscape. On October 18th Burgin will unveil his debut album, An Intolerant Disdain Of Underlings, on Proximal Records, both as an online digital LP and as a 5″x5″ hardcover photo book with the CD tray in the back cover. We caught up with this L.A. native and asked him to wax poetic about his five sources for sampling in L.A. Be sure to watch Burgin in the video below, bringing his live boom-bap live and direct.
1. The Metrolink station in Van Nuys. I was there waiting for a friend to get in from Santa Barbara and recorded the sounds of the trains pulling in and passing. I didn’t have my field recorder yet so I recorded it on an old broken cassette recorder. Those recordings were sampled for the beginning of “Randsburg.”
Read on to reveal four more sample sources for An Intolerant Disdain Of Underlings HERE
