Dave Vettraino Shares "Benton Harbor" Video, 'Exercise' out this Friday!
‘Exercise’ is the debut solo album from Chicago based musician, engineer and producer Dave Vettraino out this Friday December 4th on Fire Talk. Today Dave is back with a bucolic droning track entitled "Benton Harbor". The video by Jessee Rose Crane features aptly appropriate shots of swirling color syncing to the tracks looping melody.
Having contributed to numerous Fire Talk releases including mixing Dehd’s acclaimed ‘Flower of Devotion’, producing and mixing both Deeper’s ‘S/T’ and ‘Auto-Pain’, playing in the slinky post punk outfit The Hecks, as well as contributing to records from Ohmme, Lala Lala, Melkbelly and acting as the label International Anthem’s in house engineer with contributions to projects from Makaya McCraven and Gil Scott-Heron, Reservoir, Jamie Branch and more, Dave’s resumè speaks for itself. Like fellow engineer/musician Jim O’Rourke, Vettraino likes to find his way into ideas that are neither staying nor going. Today Vettraino shares ‘Morning Music’, the album’s lead track which opens with a deep breath of a drone, cracking the seal of a window as you take in the day’s first breeze. As the diaphragm of the drone rises and falls, the first of many lasting guitar structures on ‘Exercise’ cycles around a chiming piano. The piano motif embod-ies the nature of Vettraino’s process making ‘Exercise’; played and recorded during idle moments in between sessions at Jamdek Studios, it’s these usually inconsequential minutes, not redeemable for much more than a dead-eyed stare, that Vettraino has threaded into a cohesive musical drift.
