P is for Progress, by ZACHT AUTOMAAT

P is for Progress

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1.	Bite the Invisible Hand 02:53	buy track
2.	Honey Party 02:22	buy track
3.	Memories with Feeling 02:27	buy track
4.	Now You Know It's True 03:30	buy track
5.	Under the Earth, a Seed 02:05	buy track
6.	I Know Bill Gates 01:08	buy track
7.	Sprite 00:04	buy track
8.	It Couldn't Happen Again 03:26	buy track
9.	Cascading Mabel 03:28	buy track
10.	A Dog on a Journey 02:36	buy track
11.	A Dog in the Rain 05:02	buy track
12.	Put the World in a Plastic Bag 06:28	buy track

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Carrying on the themes of 2016’s Normality Bias and 2018’s Memory of the World, namely society’s apparent willful blindness to uncomfortable truths, P is for Progress documents the last sessions in which Zacht Automaat were able to share the same physical space. From the pumping piano that gives way to dueling fuzz and swelling organ in Bite The Invisible Hand to the blown out and unhinged paranoia of I Know Bill Gates, the band offer multiple psychoacoustically engineered forays into psych and prog. Later the hypnotizing ode to a rescued console organ, Cascading Mabel, resets the mood by introducing the damaged jazz and sideways swing of the album’s final numbers: A Dog on a Journey, A Dog in the Rain and Put the World in a Plastic Bag.

Carl expands on the group's inspiration: “A lot of our music is about the chaotic nature of modern existence. Since it is instrumental, you will have to take our word for it. P is for Progress ups the song quotient and makes more nods to glam and rock than in the past, while still taking long sonic digressions.” Fusing diverse influences such as Pharaoh Sanders, The Fall, Nina Simone, Canterbury prog and classical, the duo create a sonically kaleidoscopic instrumental wonder rendered in a euphoric haze of odd order harmonics and tape compression.

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released August 5, 2022

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ZACHT AUTOMAAT

ZACHT
AUTOMAAT
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Carl Didur
carldidur.bandcamp.com

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Mike McLean
uk.linkedin.com/in/michael-mclean-b4321577

2010-present ... more

alicianauta.com

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