Jon Zott

I started listening to Panda Bear's Tomboy yesterday

...and then about 13 minutes later, Phantasmagoria's Christopher Jarvis sent me a link to this...

Jon Zott - "Rise & Shine"

...And I haven't returned to just one Tomboy song in the last 26 hours...

If I need some steady sway, some keenly grooved electronic transcendence...off into some simultaneously pillowy-and-punchy alternate sphere of vibrant sonic textures and hazy-yet-evocative soaring semblances... then I'd be just as satisfied with Zott's new 2 Song - Slow Shine... off of Brooklyn's Intuition label.

"Rise and Shine" calms the racing mind... how unnerving it can be when one's synapses are all firing off stressful clouds at the start of a day... a clattering of computer fuzz that sounds like the bubble-popping dice-roller from the Trouble board game mimics an easy going hand-clap to the steady stepping beat, while a meshed whir of chimey synths continuously hum with a lilting refrain between dreamy drones...

It's a fine couple of songs to muse to, on a misty Spring morning, with its gossamer synth thrums and bustling beats (tactfully glitched and fizzled with just the right amount of provacative noise furls)... And pleasant singing pipes runs in the family, for Jon (as Detroiter's known well the mellifluous wispy croon of his brother Daniel from either Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr or the Great Fiction). Listen to "Slow Time" -

...and there's this sublte bit of beguiling humanity at the edges of his mostly wordless melodic exerts... just wavily wafting out whooas and ooohs... there's this slight crack in his voice that seems to convey an oomph of emotion that contrasts nicely with the albeit chilly ambience of his electronic envelopment...

Maybe I'll go back to Tomboy at some point... but for me, for today, for this weekend... and for the record... Zott won. Listen to "Fever" here.

So--

Follow Zott here...

...and, to refer back to Mr. Jarvis^ above... his band, Phantasmagoria, perform tonight, at Woodruff's in Ypsilanti, along with Lightning Love, the Kodaks and the Drags.

Stay tuned to see if Lightning Love won their Billboard Battle of the Bands thing...