Quandary, by Bob Meanza

Quandary

by Bob Meanza

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1.	Grasshopper 03:18	buy track
2.	Seesaw / Quiet summons 07:40	buy track
3.	Reveal 04:30	buy track
4.	Flutter River 05:23	buy track
5.	Sunshine 06:05	buy track
6.	The Stream 05:57	buy track
7.	Unreadable Scroll 08:01	buy track

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Quandary is a work of electronic music that wants to balance between opposites - nature and technology, human agency and artificial thinking, ritual and machinery. That’s how quandaries emerge, as an impossible choice between two extremes. But music isn’t binary thinking and allows the exploration of obscure connections. Underground, a growing mycelium intersects and communicates with a fiber optic backbone: on the surface, the curtains open, and the quandary may begin to dissolve.

Produced in Berlin between 2019 and 2021, the album originates from open jams, which were then deconstructed through heavy editing - and finally recomposed, sometimes challenging the original spirit.

Bob Meanza’s oblique approach to music production encompasses the creative textures of guitarist Alex Baboian, and is enriched by the vocal appearances of Bianca Guitton. A small orchestra of three that already implies roots in Germany, Italy, USA, Armenia and France - each musician carrying him/herself the « quandary » of having at least two homes. But again, this unexpected network can bring precious fruits to the surface.

credits

released September 16, 2022

Music recorded and produced by Michele Pedrazzi
Guitars - Alex Baboian / Vocals on ‘’Reveal’’ by Bianca Guitton
Mastered by Andreas Lubich, at Loop-O, Berlin
Cover artwork by Takuro Tamayama, Spinning Mop (Red hair), 2019
Image courtesy of Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles
Design by Baptiste Leroux
Manufactured by MPO, France
Europe & World distribution by Morr Music / Oxmose
US distribution by Forced Exposure

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Quandary

Sep 2022
Melanesia

Dec 2020
my life with M.

Dec 2019
Coypu

Dec 2018
Prelude

Nov 2017

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