Instant Light
by Tar Of
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A perfect soundscape
Favorite track: Natsu Nande.
David Raposa
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Jack Skinner
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Kabir Kumar
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Olivia Bradley-Skill
Nima Rahni
Evan Miller
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Nick Blossom
Sanjay Basu
Limbogott
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banesp
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Jeremy Bernstein
川﨑 良一
Annie Howard
Audrey Yung
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Timothy Kerbavaz
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Bouts
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Rumi
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Sully
01:06
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Halfstep
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Shock Of White
02:32
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Feel Time Multiply
02:07
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Take It To Sea
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Take Me To See
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Nina
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When They Uh
02:21
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Wontena
03:49
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Blacklung
03:23
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Jaan
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Natsu Nande
01:59
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Iowa, Japan
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Temescal
02:20
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Dead Pet
01:47
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Outside The Work
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Lie To
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Instant Light
03:44
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about
Over the course of recording this album, the phrase “instant light” came to mean many things to us—an attempt to capture the present tense, a blinding disorientation, a sudden clarity—and the phrase forms a thematic through line that cuts across all of these songs.
Old demos and phone recordings appear and reappear throughout the record, mutating each time like memories made less reliable with each recall. We attempt to balance levity with gravity, and the songs squelch and buckle under this tension: dueling clarinets yell jarring intervals over each other; tight vocal harmonies deconstruct words into their constituent syllables; bowed banjos emulate a decaying string quartet as the bow's fibers tear against the metal strings.
The result is a thirty-seven minute collage of childish pop, motown excursions, flashbulb memories, and heavy builds of dense repetition, as we self consciously follow creative whims to their illogical ends.
Old demos and phone recordings appear and reappear throughout the record, mutating each time like memories made less reliable with each recall. We attempt to balance levity with gravity, and the songs squelch and buckle under this tension: dueling clarinets yell jarring intervals over each other; tight vocal harmonies deconstruct words into their constituent syllables; bowed banjos emulate a decaying string quartet as the bow's fibers tear against the metal strings.
The result is a thirty-seven minute collage of childish pop, motown excursions, flashbulb memories, and heavy builds of dense repetition, as we self consciously follow creative whims to their illogical ends.
credits
released September 22, 2020
written by Tar Of
produced by Tar Of with Rusty Santos
recording engineer Gil Turetsky
mixing engineer Geoff Saba
glass orchard records 009
written by Tar Of
produced by Tar Of with Rusty Santos
recording engineer Gil Turetsky
mixing engineer Geoff Saba
glass orchard records 009
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Tar Of Brooklyn, New York
not making pop music better, just making fine art worse.
discography
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Sep 2020 -
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Aug 2017