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Midnight Zoom Bar

from The New Normal by Commander Goznales

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A new normal midnight in NYC, or not, walking around face town looking at the instas.. We enter a bar and this is what is going on. Silver lettered “Midnight Zoom Bar” reads on the purple background of the stage. The musicians are wearing suits and helmets while the spectators sit on their screens, connected from somewhere else. The house beverage “72 Terawatts” is enabled by a magnetic circuit that in its movement “pumps’ more of that fun juice into the spectator-screens. All of the sudden the suited musicians become rockstars and Dj’s. The stage’s background starts spinning, the weather is strange, and it feels like we had that experience in a future moment which we don’t quite remember visiting before. Memories of the past, the jazz clubs… Excited about the future!

This is in many ways one of our favorite songs we have ever made together. The song’s genesis comes after listening to Coltrane’s “Interstellar Space” for probably the 1,000th time. Being a synth and sax player I pitched to Paul a song that behaves in a similarly chaotic and atonal manner to Coltrane’s compositions but in an electric and experimental context. The idea was not one of imitation but rather of “resonance” with what we identified as a way of seeing the world that Coltrane is tapping into during the late 60’s. In many ways the work of Morton Subotnick resonated with the synthetic aesthetic while dashes of alto saxophone and techno-futuristic drumming with a flavor of Elvin Jones give the track it’s free form jazz vibe.

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from The New Normal, released October 20, 2020

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Commander Goznales Toronto, Ontario

Electric Experimental Music assemblage. Based out of Toronto and Peterborough, Canada with roots in Latin America. Specializing in Analog synthesizers, polyrhythms, and free improvisation with an avant-garde sensibility. Performing together since 2010. Mark Allwood and Paul Ciuk are the core members of the band and they bring their Latin American spirit to their psychedelic compositions. ... more

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