The Los Angeles Times‘ Pop & Hiss section premieres Sahy Uhns‘ take on the track ‘Montebello Postpartum’ off his debut LP An Intolerant Disdain Of Underlings
“Calibrating ears to phenomena of everyday noise, the remixed version of the track, while intricate and contemplative, isn’t as danceable as the original. Smooth boom-bap passages are replaced with looped and choppy drums and ambient synth flourishes that turn “Montebello” into a beat meant to be absorbed with eyes closed.”
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
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.”
