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Esm​é​rized 42020

by Mesmerizer (aka LFZ)

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1.
Rumble Leaf Tumble Leaf 05:16
2.
Mourning Dove 05:51
3.
Esmé Dub 3 05:30
4.
I Want I Need 04:04

about

April 2020. Just a few weeks into isolation. Already feeling like an eternity. My daughter Esmé and I had been spending our days mostly in the garden with the doors and windows of the house open and the breeze flowing freely and the hi-fi cranked. I had a stack of about a dozen Dub Reggae LP's that were our main rotation. Classics. We played these over and over. So much so, that my 2 year old was asking to hear Scientist or King Tubby again.

With all this repetitive listening my minds eye started trying to form an understanding of what was going on with these sounds. How were things routed? How was this mixed? What did the source material sound like before all the dub techniques? What are dub techniques?!? I set up a 4-track cassette deck, a mixer, a delay unit, and a reverb unit with the intention of decoding it for myself. I just wanted to know. I identified what I thought were some basic musical elements and began recording as simply as I could manage.

I stole a melody line from the theme song of a tv show Esmé had been watching, "Tumble Leaf" -still a favorite of mine although she's grown out of it- and pretty much as soon as I got started I knew that through this explorative experiment I wanted to record some songs for Esmé that we could look back together on this tiny window of time when we were cooped up jamming to dub all day long. Her memories of that time have already all but faded, and mine are twisted up in the time fuckery that we all experienced. I'm glad I did this work.

I have to say, it was SO FUN to learn these techniques. I am in no way treading new ground at all and am certainly not a Reggae musician. I originally had zero intention of releasing this, but revisiting it recently, I decided, why the hell not? So here it is. 4 songs I recorded for my daughter during the early days of the quar whilst I learned how to route a maze of cables and twist knobs and shove sliders around. I hope you like it.

-Sean Smith aka Mesmerizer aka LFZ

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released April 7, 2023

Written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Sean Smith in the LFZ Studio La Crescenta, CA in April and May of 2020.

Guitar, Bass, Moog, Prophet, 808, Tascam, Timeline, Blue Sky.

Master by Yohei Shikano
Art by Will Ivy

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LFZ Los Angeles, California

LFZ is a guitarist/synthesist living in California.

LFZ releases music with Gnome Life Records,Stimulus Progression, and Castle Face Records.

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