Austin synth trio Dallas Acid's first of a series of quarantine collaborative albums for charities under the name "Dallas Acid's Bubble Club" on their newly launched label Odeon Broadcasting. The first release, "Vol I: A Prayer for Peace," features ambient legends LARAAJI and Ariel Kalma, Bill Callahan, Paz Lenchantin of The Pixies, Rocco DeLuca, Joce Soubiran of Zebulon, Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance, Ivan Berko of Juicy Street NYC and Clint Newsom of Hairy Sands/Flying Moonlight Records.
The album began as a slow, ever-evolving sequence patched together on Dallas Acid's massive modular synthesizer known as The Brain, serving as the soundtrack for their COVID-19 preparations. As people around the world began to retreat into their own private bubbles, they felt the sequence could be expanded into a larger collaborative piece.
The 35-minute recording was cut into sections and randomly sent to each collaborator 'exquisite corpse' style, so no one knew what the others were playing. As Dallas Acid had hoped, the individual bubbles were magically drawn together into a beautiful, multi-layered, melodic canvas that became bigger than the sum of its individual parts.
All donations to the Bubble Club will be split 50/50 between the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and Relief International, a charity organization coordinating a global response to the COVID-19 crisis.
Welcome to the Bubble Club!
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released August 7, 2020
LARAAJI: Vocals
Bill Callahan: Lap Steel
Ariel Kalma: Vocals, Saxophone, Synths
Rocco DeLuca: Pedal Steel
Paz Lenchantin: Violin
Joce Soubiran: Piano Harp
Brian DeGraw: Synths, Vocals
Clint Newsom: Buchla
Ivan Berko: Clarinet
Dallas Acid: Synths, Gong, Cacho Seed Pods
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I heard him interviewed on the lovely Tom Ravenscroft show on BBC 6 Music and just fell in love with him and his music. So difficult to pick a favourite track from this gorgeous album but it’s probably Elevation, well this evening it is.... iansmyth
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a music garden; a garden that i can take anywhere, place it on my ears and enjoy its calming ambience. for nature-deprived folks (like me), it's awesome. wolftetsudo
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