#sunbutler

[cosmicloners]

sunbutler - sun butler

[pervasivepersuasive]

...and marplan and nardil go chasing round your brain...

[scottishmusic]

Sunbutler 'Sunbutler'

Artists: Momus & Joe Howe Album: Sunbutler Release Date: October 23rd, 2012 Label: American Patchwork Format: Digital

Tracklisting:

01. Sun Butler 02. Doghouse 03. The Foreigner 04. So What? 05. Orion 06. Oriental Lothario 07. Never 08. Spinoza 09. Heliopolis 10. Bodypop 11. Zaro Sum 12. Glitterships 13. Beginnings

Notes: Cover artwork by Benjamin Rawson.

[bbandmp]

Sunbutler on Soundcloud!

[bbandmp]

So Sunbutler is officially out! Here's the blurb from the Darla website:

The Sunbutler album is a collaboration between two Scots of different generations living on different continents. Joe Howe and Momus worked together before, making the Joemus album in Berlin in 2008. Whereas Joe's main musical project back then was the itchy, glitchy Germlin, in 2012 he composes and performs as Ben Butler & Mousepad, making an infectious hand-played funk that references Max Tundra, Herbie Hancock and YMO. Restricting himself to just five basic sounds on an old FM synth, Joe made backing tracks in his Glasgow studio which Momus in Osaka then warped into disjointed funk songs, emphasising the genre's sleaziness in an 80s-retro way that recalls Prince at his most dirty-minded, the glittering deconstructions of Scritti Politti, and Momus albums like 1989's Don't Stop The Night. The results are funny, catchy, and disturbingly infectious.

you can purchase the record direct from Darla, here or from Amazon in a bit. Itunes etc will follow at some point.

[spocksbeard]

[bbandmp]

i'm ten tracks into a new album with Momus, which'll probably be called 'Sunbutler'. We made a record together before in 2008, called 'Joemus' and more recently, I contributed keyboard solos and stuff to a song called 'Strawberry Hill'.

For this record, I set myself some rules. I restricted myself to using 5 simple sounds on each track from a digital FM synthesizer on each track, with very few effects and editing, no samples. The parts themselves are pretty much kept as i played them. Nick recieves these tracks and manipulates them in whatever way he sees fit.

I might post the instrumentals at some point after the record comes out.