Tags
Related Posts
Floating Action: Well Hidden
Named after a vintage Gretsch bass drum pedal, Floating Action is the pseudonym of Black Mountain, North Carolina-based musician, songwriter, and producer Seth Kauffman. Following the 2007 homemade gem Research (released under his own name) and Floating Action’s gorgeously understated self-titled follow-up from 2009, Park the Van will be releasing Desert Etiquette, Kauffman’s third full-length with the New Orleans based indie label.
Kauffman wrote the lyrics for the Desert Etiquette in two days, then recorded the album over a concentrated period of 48 total hours. The process was sudden, pure—an explosion of inspiration that dictated being harnessed in real-time. Kauffman’s friend and collaborator, Band of Horses bassist Bill Reynolds, mixed the record in a similarly off-the-cuff vein—live and spontaneously over two days, using a vintage Trident console.
The new album takes its title from a legend told to Kauffman by his sister (in the Middle East, it is proper etiquette to leave a drinking vessel for the hypothetical next traveler near a remote oasis)
[park the van records]
WEBSITE | FACEBOOK | MYSPACE | TWITTER | PARK THE VAN
[audio:https://insomniaradio.net/audio/dailydose/irdd-floatingaction-wellhidden.mp3]
