Everyone Is Making It Up, by Semispecific Ensemble

Everyone Is Making It Up

by Semispecific Ensemble

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Max Fleetwood Exceptional stuff. How can so many bands channelling raw Arthur Russell come from one tiny wee city? Favorite track: Yoga For Complete Beginners.

muzz420 Unbelievable x late night or sunshine, just delightful any f..g time.

blackledge falling A majikal swirl wind of all the good musikz. Its all hear for you to see. Coltrane esque cracks of light, waltz over Detroit tones presenting something new, something unique and beautiful. Something special.This is a serious exploration into the jazz tinged ambient sonic fields that surround us all. The global beats add to the definite, tangible, accompanying flavour of fun, that runs deep throughout this lp. A future stereo beam of joy, bringing light to the dark mono of winter. Favorite track: What We Do Now.

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(Zine) Semispecific Ensemble - Everyone is Making It Up (Zine)
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Edition of 100 A5 28page riso print art zine. 120gsm inside 160 gsm cover. Mixed colour inks and paper.

Contains text and imagery for each track. Trying to rekindle that sense of immersion i used to feel while pouring over liner notes and artwork on the bus home from the cd shop when I was wee. Expanded world building.

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1.	Yoga For Complete Beginners 05:04	buy track
2.	Tuning Into Shades Of Green 05:43 video	buy track
3.	Colouring In The Corners 06:46	buy track
4.	Received Wisdom 03:28	buy track
5.	What We Do Now 05:13	buy track

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Optimo Music proudly presents Glasgow's Semispecific Ensemble, yet more incredible music from this city!

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"Semispecific Ensemble is a somewhat sprawling project that encompasses many passing interests, explorations and research. It exists as both a spontaneous live act and a painstaking studio practice. A collective celebration and a solitary obsession. An organic expression and a digital manipulation.

Live, I don't think we're ever really the same group twice - a constantly shifting line up of players and guests, a roaming pallet of styles, sounds and ever evolving intentions. Yes, there are some jazz and ambient elements but we're definitely not a jazz band or ambient act. Friends have described a "techno button", detonated at festival sets aimed at triggering fields of wild eyes and flailing bodies, but few DJs are likely to lend their full support (tip!).

Over time, like layer upon layer of scribbled Biro, these ongoing iterations gradually began to form a wider picture; a fragmented and sprawling universe that I thought was worth starting to capture and share."

Everyone Is Making It Up is our first full attempt to do that.

Recorded in one day as a series of improvisations in a hastily organised session between the waves of lockdown of 2020 then smelted and reformed through far-too-many hours of studio experimentation like some morphing primordial sonic goo. Over the course of the five pieces of music, four texts , one video and various artworks collected within the accompanying zine, Everyone Is Making It Up is messy and untamed, naïve, imprecise, short-sighted and long-winded but I am proud of it and hope you can give it a chance to lure you in to its world.

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released October 13, 2023

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