Vein Matter by Nature's Neighbor
Tracklist
| 1. | Blue Planet Thesis | 4:24 |
| 2. | Vein Matter | 2:58 |
| 3. | Ghareeb Nawaz | 3:04 |
| 4. | ζ΅·ε£ (HΗikΗu) | 3:10 |
| 5. | Chicago, 2017 | 3:22 |
Credits
released October 3, 2017
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written, performed & recorded by Nature's Neighbor
mixed by Terrill Mast & Mike Walker
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Terrill Mast - taal tarang tabla, melodica, piano, percussion, synths, sampler, bells, marimba, zither, pocket operator, lyrics, vocals
Mike Walker - synths, sampler, percussion, guitars, bass, lyrics, vocals
Brandon Studer - guitar, bass, sampler, percussion, synths
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album art by Mike Walker & Terrill Mast
mastered by Will Killingsworth
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Mike Walker, Brandon Studer (aka Wren Smiles), and I started this little EP seven months ago via email and kept bouncing ideas off each other. It was like piecing together Frankensteinβs creature for its reanimation, and we were mad scientists at work. Then things eventually came to a slow stop sometime in May, and the three or four tracks we had produced began to gather digital dust. You know how it goes.
Fast forward a few months to this August when Radhika Bhatt and I set out on a trip to Chicago in a car packed to the brim with musical instruments (plus we kidnapped Zachary Klaus on the way) to stay with Mike Walker and Cheer Zhao at their apartment in Edgewater. I had left the city over a year ago and it was my first time coming back. During that trip we all reconnected, reveled, and recorded much of what appears on this EP. We had regained our momentum and set out to finish what we had started.
To me, Vein Matter encapsulates many of our collective dreams and feelings of Chicago, and of leaving something we love so much behind us as we continually venture onward into the next chapter of our lives. As such, I am happy to leave this behind for you all as I make my way across the globe to live in India for eight months. Cheers!
- Terrill Mast, October 4th 2017
γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ
γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ
written, performed & recorded by Nature's Neighbor
mixed by Terrill Mast & Mike Walker
γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ
Terrill Mast - taal tarang tabla, melodica, piano, percussion, synths, sampler, bells, marimba, zither, pocket operator, lyrics, vocals
Mike Walker - synths, sampler, percussion, guitars, bass, lyrics, vocals
Brandon Studer - guitar, bass, sampler, percussion, synths
γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ
album art by Mike Walker & Terrill Mast
mastered by Will Killingsworth
γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ γ
Mike Walker, Brandon Studer (aka Wren Smiles), and I started this little EP seven months ago via email and kept bouncing ideas off each other. It was like piecing together Frankensteinβs creature for its reanimation, and we were mad scientists at work. Then things eventually came to a slow stop sometime in May, and the three or four tracks we had produced began to gather digital dust. You know how it goes.
Fast forward a few months to this August when Radhika Bhatt and I set out on a trip to Chicago in a car packed to the brim with musical instruments (plus we kidnapped Zachary Klaus on the way) to stay with Mike Walker and Cheer Zhao at their apartment in Edgewater. I had left the city over a year ago and it was my first time coming back. During that trip we all reconnected, reveled, and recorded much of what appears on this EP. We had regained our momentum and set out to finish what we had started.
To me, Vein Matter encapsulates many of our collective dreams and feelings of Chicago, and of leaving something we love so much behind us as we continually venture onward into the next chapter of our lives. As such, I am happy to leave this behind for you all as I make my way across the globe to live in India for eight months. Cheers!
- Terrill Mast, October 4th 2017
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License
All rights reserved.
Formed in Chicago in November of 2014, Nature's Neighbor is the project of song writer Mike Walker & frequent collaborators Terrill Mast, Brandon Studer, Cheer Zhao & Seth Engel. Walker moved to Japan in October of 2021 & now resides in Kyoto.