‘Exercise’ is the debut solo album from Chicago based engineer and producer Dave Vettraino. 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’ 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, Jaimie Branch and more. Like fellow engineer/musician Jim O’Rourke, Vettraino likes to find his way into ideas that are neither staying nor going. ‘Exercise’ 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 an idle moments 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.

Limited to 100 copies on tinted blue pro dubbed cassettes.