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For mercurial Los Angeles music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of
hisdays living amidst âpleasantâ and âunremarkableâ in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, so perhaps itâs due to a general lack of
localinspiration that Wiesenfeldâs own work has never fit into a prefab box of its own. Over the last six years, under the handle of [Post-
Foetus],Wiesenfeld has gainfully explored the intersections and outer reaches of both electronic and acoustic music. With Baths, his
eclecticism findsits greatest focus y ...read more
For mercurial Los Angeles music-maker Will Wiesenfeld, Baths has been a long time coming. The 21-year-old has spent the better part of
hisdays living amidst âpleasantâ and âunremarkableâ in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, so perhaps itâs due to a general lack of
localinspiration that Wiesenfeldâs own work has never fit into a prefab box of its own. Over the last six years, under the handle of [Post-
Foetus],Wiesenfeld has gainfully explored the intersections and outer reaches of both electronic and acoustic music. With Baths, his
eclecticism findsits greatest focus yet, in a hail of lush melodies, ghostly choirs, playful instrumentation and stuttering beats.
Wiesenfeldâs trip began at age 4, when he willed his parents into enrolling him in piano lessons. (The family upright, purchased that
sameyear, sits in his bedroom today.) By 13, heâd begun recording his own music using Digital Performer and a MIDI keyboard â a brief, ill-
advisedforay into Eurobeat that was set right when Wiesenfeld heard Björk for the first time. Mind blown, he quickly boned up on viola,
contrabass,and guitar and took the name [Post-Foetus], stringing together countless live configurations to execute his increasingly
inimitablecompositions. [Post-Foetus]â fourth album â a Dntel-ish, song-based mĂ©lange dubbed The Fabric â was released on MĂŒ-Nest in
January 2010.
Though Baths represents the next evolution in Wiesenfeldâs oeuvre â which also includes the excellent ambient project Geotic â it
cametogether under nigh-opposite circumstances. In September of 2009, [Post-Foetus] was invited by L.A. electronicist Daedelus to share a
billwith a handful of local Beat Music luminaries. Witnessing a burgeoning movement firsthand sparked something in Wiesenfeld that the
âburbsnever could. In a fit of inspiration, Baths was born, though not into a preexisting scene. As is to be expected, this music goes its own
way:fueled by spontaneity, tempered by Wiesenfeldâs background in classic songwriting. Those two influences collide in glorious ways on
Cerulean,Bathsâ stunning debut. « hide |
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