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I Remember You Like the Best Song

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As outside life became limited, and eventually, entirely inaccessible as it was previously known, a retreat inside was for most the only recourse in the early months of 2020. I Remember You Like the Best Song is the product of Brian’s particular movement inwards, encapsulating not only the dizzyingly prismatic and confounding emotions of that moment but also anticipating in its abject rawness the loss of his father and unraveling of his personal life that comes in the year following its recording. 

Finding a means of inquiry and reflection in his reed instruments, synths, and sampling, Brian turned recording and listening devices towards the sounds of life as confined, inward and reaching. Using the acoustics of the interior of his living spaces (a static analog for his shifting, internal landscape?), Brian placed his cellphone and mics on various perches and in forgotten corners as he meandered around animating his instruments at whim. The result is a conversational tonality and sense of intimacy that folds in the haptic fizz of the composition. 

The piece is bookended by the oscillating voice of his reed instruments, who’s overture in bass clarinet eventually prompts a placating reply from a cascade of processed samples and synths. The theatrics of this dialog continue throughout with interrogations by the reeds grounding themselves with the softer replies of the other elements to reach points of harmony and calm that soon unravel with pangs of discord. This elastic play of tension and release is punctuated by field recordings – the aural wetness of a rare Los Angeles rain, a conversation heard but not understood – that serve to break up the piece into acts structuring the composition into a narrative who’s subject of frustration and restlessness is balanced with the affirmation of knowing through sensing. Despite its melancholic overtone, the music approaches a sense of optimism, or at least admission, in its closure. 

- Griffin Snyder, January 2022

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All music by Brian Allen Simon

Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Samples, Field Recordings + Phone Rips, Polysix

Recorded April - June, 2020 at 3742, LA

Art by Susan Cianciolo, courtesy Bridget Donahue NYC

Mastering by Yosi Horikawa, Tokyo

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released February 18, 2022

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