Mark Solotroff "Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero" Announced

 

MARK SOLOTROFF: BLOODYMINDED/Anatomy Of Habit Founder To Release New Solo Album, Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, November 3rd; Track Stream + Preorders Available Photo by Elena Solotroff Stream MARK SOLOTROFF's "The Weight Of Your Own" HERE. Electronic music veteran, artist, multi-instrumentalist/noise mastermind MARK SOLOTROFF will release his latest solo album, Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, on November 3rd. Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero is the follow-up to SOLOTROFF’s 2021-released album, Not Everybody Makes It and features ten songs, each running exactly six-minutes in length. SOLOTROFF characterizes it as a continuation of his voyage through experimental ambient and drone, and it finds him refining concepts that he’s been developing for several years, down to more digestible portions of music. For this album, SOLOTROFF worked with a variety of vintage analog synths, recorded directly to a four-track cassette deck, which remains his preferred arrangement. At their foundation, each song was built from multiple layers of synth. SOLOTROFF then wove in loops that sometimes sit more prominently and more melodically and that sometimes appear in a more spectral fashion. SOLOTROFF’s own voice adds further dimension to some songs, but he processed it so it became a layer of sound closer in nature to synth patterns or distorted frequencies. SOLOTROFF created numerous mixes of the ten songs, striving to find a sweet spot where it could be enjoyed through a home stereo with speakers, through a car system, through headphones, and through now ubiquitous earbuds. After discussing approaches with mastering engineer Collin Jordan, SOLOTROFF was extremely pleased with how versatile the master turned out. That said, he admits that the low-end frequencies he embedded in each song remain best experienced through speakers or capable headphones. Of this, he’s unapologetic. It’s an album for people who appreciate the deep end. While SOLOTROFF found the internal or isolated time during the pandemic to be extremely productive, in a creative sense, once the world started to reopen, he quickly dove back into an external life of social interaction, live performance, travel, and a significantly restructured work/life balance that gave him a greater appreciation of his free creative time. Coming out of the pandemic, SOLOTROFF wanted to move forward from not only his attempts to put his own experiences of loss into sound, but to move past the collective grief that so deeply permeated the music world over the last few years. While Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero will likely never be accused of being a happy or optimistic sounding album, for SOLOTROFF, it demonstrates the evolution of his sound work and of his artistic path, and he sees it as representing a more positive impression of nostalgia and an internal drive that is open to possibility, for today, at least. In advance of the release of Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero, SOLOTROFF today unveils first single, "The Weight Of Your Own," noting of the track, "'The Weight Of Your Own' sits at the beginning of my new album because it introduces the exact balance of sounds that I've been working towards for the last few years. Its prominent, yet abstract loop sets the tone for the hour of music that follows. While I was working on the album, I had to consciously stop myself from simply following the pattern and making nine more versions of this song. Rather, I used it as an indicator of the mood of the album that unfolds before the listener. I also had to fight myself to not let the song spool out for thirty-minutes, or more, and allowing the loop to become a more enveloping, hypnotic device. That's where I was, before. Right now, I'm trying to create more concise compositions. Maybe I actually did create an epic version? If so, I'll keep it for private use."   Stream MARK SOLOTROFF's "The Weight Of Your Own" at THIS LOCATION.   Today The Infinite, Tomorrow Zero will be released on four-panel digipak CD and digitally on all major platforms. Find preorders at the official MARK SOLOTROFF Bandcamp page HERE.    Track Listing: 1. The Weight Of Your Own 2. Arguments Of Strain 3. Keeping Themselves To Themselves 4. Desire Without Wounds 5. The Study Of One 6. You May Slip Between 7. Almost All Promises 8. The Testimony Of Modern Art 9. Restoring Contact With Experience 10. The Hold On Life   MARK SOLOTROFF is a Chicago-based musician and a visual artist who has worked within the experimental, post-industrial, noise, and metal scenes, dating back to the mid-1980s. SOLOTROFF is best known as the vocalist of both the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band BLOODYMINDED, and as the founder of the early American post-industrial band Intrinsic Action. His work with analog synthesizers dates back to his earliest recordings and he continues to find new ways to work with these often-unpredictable instruments. SOLOTROFF pursues several related themes in his work, including how cities develop, both organically and through organized planning, how the human body navigates urban environments, and how people navigate and interact with each other, particularly in an age of alienation caused by severe digital fragmentation. His visual work frequently features urban landscapes, architecture, and infrastructure, and he has become increasingly active in his use of artificial intelligence in his art. He’s published three books of pictures that include his own photography, found images, and AI-generated images, all of which he processes in a manner related to how he processes sound.   For MARK SOLOTROFF coverage inquiries, contact liz@earsplitcompound.com.   Earsplit PR | Liz Ciavarella-Brenner | www.earsplitcompound.com   MARK SOLOTROFF Website Instagram Facebook Bandcamp Spotify Apple/iTunes Amazon (author page)

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Mark Solotroff "Rush Headlong Into It" new single now streaming

Rush Headlong Into It This song was created with recordings made during the sessions for my album "Not Everybody Makes It." It's the third of three singles released during winter 2021-22. It's available via Bandcamp, as well as all major streaming platforms. --- https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/track/rush-headlong-into-it --- Spotify iTunes/Apple Music --- http://marksolotroff.com http://www.facebook.com/solotroff http://www.instagram.com/marksolotroff http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/

Mark Solotroff "Pressing Upon Us" new single now streaming

Pressing Upon Us This song was created with recordings made during the sessions for my album "Not Everybody Makes It." It's the second of three singles to be released during winter 2021-22. It's available via Bandcamp, as well as all major streaming platforms. --- https://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/track/pressing-upon-us --- Spotify iTunes/Apple Music --- http://marksolotroff.com http://www.facebook.com/solotroff http://www.instagram.com/marksolotroff http://marksolotroff.bandcamp.com/

Mark Solotroff "A Form Of Consolation" new single now streaming

 

A Form Of Consolation

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Mark Solotroff - Video Premiere

 

Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside)

Reposting from Earsplit PR

Bloodyminded and Anatomy Of Habit founder, electronic music veteran, artist, multi-instrumentalist, and all around noise mastermind MARK SOLOTROFF today unveils a video for “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside).” Now playing at Captured Howls, the track appears on SOLOTROFF’s new solo album, Not Everybody Makes It, set for release July 30th.

Recorded and mixed by SOLOTROFF during April and May of 2021 and mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room in May in 2021, Not Everybody Makes It is SOLOTROFF’s most restrained and controlled synth recording to date. While he anticipated creating a hybrid of more primitive and aggressive sounds balanced by more subtle ambient textures, by the time he finished mixing the six new songs — each one exactly ten-minutes in length — he realized that he had made significant strides in evolving his recent style. Not Everybody Makes It functions as a sonic elegy to the countless losses that so many of us have suffered over the last year and in the recent past, and its shimmering and crumbling frequencies and textures enter into a tense balancing act with elusive melodies that slowly drown in and then emerge from the shifting and eroding dronescapes.

Notes SOLOTROFF of “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside),” “This is the first video that I’ve ever made and I think it accurately matches the immensely lonely mood of the song. Building upon the mapping exercises and iconography that I’ve included in my work over the last few years, the path followed in this video depicts prominent streets and bridges near my building, which I’ve spent a great deal of time on, particularly during the past year, or so. Cars and people move at unnaturally slow speeds, mirroring the pace of the song and advancing the underlying sense of isolation introduced by the music.”

Writes Captured Howls in part, “The song feels like a meditation on solitude amid noise — or at least the sense of such a thing, since dissociative unease proves readily apparent in the sound. The ominous track comes with a video that Solotroff put together, and the imagery that he’s provided supports this idea. The video, in which images have been altered and presented in a grayscale color palette but remain recognizable, follows a journey through city streets, and there’s an impression of feeling alone, or perhaps weighed down, even as signs of activity continue on largely unabated — and largely uncaring for the people living within their wakes…”

Read more and view MARK SOLOTROFF’s “Charged Matter (The Problem From The Inside)” video at THIS LOCATION.

Stream previously released “Suffering Sun (Barren Winter)” at THIS LOCATION.

Not Everybody Makes It will be available on CD, in a four-panel digipak featuring SOLOTROFF’s photography, and on all major digital platforms. Find preorders via Bandcamp HERE or iTunes/Apple Music HERE.

MARK SOLOTROFF‘s artwork and music focuses on several related key themes, including how cities develop, both organically and through organized planning, how the human body navigates urban environments, and how people navigate and interact with each other, particularly in an age of alienation caused by severe digital fragmentation.

In the music world, SOLOTROFF is best known as the vocalist of both the doom band Anatomy Of Habit and the heavy electronic band Bloodyminded, and as the founder of the early post-industrial band Intrinsic Action. He also has a more than thirty-five-year history playing analog synthesizer. His synth work has been at the core of Bloodyminded and Intrinsic Action, and he recorded and released one-hundred hours of lo-fi analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop, which he recently digitized and remastered. He is part of the dark-synth group Nightmares, which released a new album in early 2020, as well as the post-industrial trio, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, which released their first new album in over twenty-five years, in early 2021.

SOLOTROFF has also collaborated with and contributed synth and/or vocals to numerous bands, ranging from a four-year role in Wrekmeister Harmonies, to live appearances and/or studio recordings with diverse electronic, experimental, and metal bands, including The Atlas Moth, Brutal Truth, Consumer Electronics, Indian, Locrian, Plague Bringer, Sigillum S, and The Sodality. In late 2019, SOLOTROFF‘s synth was included on new releases by Azar Swan (“The Hissing Crane” on Primal Architecture) and The Body (“Remixed” on Thrill Jockey), and in 2020, he created remixes, augmented with his synth, for Statiqbloom (“Asphyxia Remixed” on Synthicide) and Snow Burial (“Painting The Streets With Our Blood”).

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