Today, local experimental noise-punk duo Kwazymoto shares a video for the release of “A Knight in Bleeding Armor.” The single will appear as the intro track to Sketches of Separation, an upcoming seven-song album headed our way later this month. Haunting, maybe even a little demented, a masked figure dances under flickering candlelight to a coy, mischievous tune sampling Glenn Miller’s “Moonlight Serenade” and mid-century narration.
With the exception of two features on one song, everything on the album was written and performed by members Ian Hemerlein and Kody Blackmon. Mastered by Joel Hatstat, the album was recorded and mixed by Hemerlein between The Glow Recording Studio and his home studio.
“Even though the album was mostly conceived during the height of lockdown, I don’t really consider it thematically to be a ‘pandemic album,’” says Hemerlein. “That being said, I don’t think it would have turned out the way that it did had it not been for the lockdown. Lots of down time in the past year and a half led to new recording methods and attempting much more MIDI and sample based sounds to become a part of the songs. I think it is our most noisy and strange project so far.”
Sketches of Separation will be released digitally on Oct. 29. The band will play an album release show shortly thereafter with Maxuma and Null at Flicker Theatre and Bar on Nov. 12. Stay tuned to kwazymoto.bandcamp.com and facebook.com/kwazymot0.
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