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Supermarkets

by Paul Sottnik

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Ah, the supermaket...

Full of possibilities. Full of options and desires, lusts, dangers, necessities and produce. Be careful. Make wise choices.

Have you ever had a nightmare that you were stuck inside a labyrinth of identical hallways? Imagine if every one of those hallways reflected a supermarket. There’s only some variation such as the bread aisle, freezer aisle and of course the pet-food aisle. Maybe some aisles you’ve never walked down. And yet here you are stuck in the labyrinth for several hours of your week. Maybe you forgot just one thing. Maybe you have to go back tomorrow. (Damn)
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I like to think of this project as a series of prints in the sense that each piece is identical to each other with only slight variation. Each recording is created to explore the space around a one or two measure phrase created on the bass or the guitar. The layered parts are commonly improvised in as few takes as possible.

This is strongly influenced by my work with dancers and their necessity for blocks of expressive and strongly rhythmic improvisations. I want each piece so sound like a dance. I want each little part within to dance together and the end result to make you want to dance. In some key sections the polyrhythm is transcended by pulse. Just feel the pulse and dance to the pulse and let the music pull you left and right.

The supermarkets series is about that feeling of being lost in routine. Monotony is complicit in contemporary society. It’s also about finding what you’re looking for in life’s eternal easter egg hunt. Sometimes you have $5 and sometimes you have a shopping spree but you always have options and endless possibilities.

“The line is getting thinner
I just came here to find dinner
Memory comes back to me
I have to write some words down in my phone”

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released September 1, 2018

Recorded performed and produced by Paul Sottnik in 2018
Artwork by Jackie Chuchanis

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Paul Sottnik Chicago, Illinois

Paul has a BA in music from Fredonia State so he can scribble ideas in the margins.

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