Driving, neon noir space beats with lush, psychedelic detours.
Last year, in the depths of a cold Canadian winter, Toronto-based musician Jeff Pinto (ex Hands & Teeth) setup a studio in a 100 year old farmhouse north of Kingston with the intention of demoing a couple of new songs. The mix of unending, frozen fields and an unrelenting winter bled into the music, and what instead emerged was a 30 minute composition composed of several related and interwoven pie
ces. Built with an aging piano, a handful of vintage synthesizers, and a modern drum machine / sampler, the songs reflect their eclectic building blocks, veering from sparse piano over synthetic beats, to energetic, driving space-disco with lush, psychedelic detours. The machines employed to bring Gursky’s artful arrangements to life also inform the lyrics which explore the effects of the machines we increasingly use to help us connect. Upon returning to the city, Gursky, enlisted producer Laurence Currie (Sloan, Wintersleep) to capture and polish the composition and tapped members of Hands & Teeth, Hobo Lord and Ada Dahli & the Pallbearers to bring the electronic-tinged songs to stage without the use of computers or backing tracks. Gursky and crew are now beginning to perform the songs live while the debut album is in the process of being polished.
