Is The Food Your Family Eats Slowly by Good Willsmith, released in 2012 on Hansu Mountain.

Electronics trio, based in Chicago, Illinois. Active since the early 2010's.

Maxwell Allison: Bass, Synth, Oscillators, Tape Deck, Loop Pedals, Effects Pedals.
Natalie Chami : voice, synths, electronics
Doug Kaplan: Guitar, Synth, Turntables, Electronic Tabla and Tambura, Loop Pedal and Effects Pedals.

Recorded live at Tiger Mountain Studios in a single session on May 12th, 2012.

https://goodwillsmith.bandcamp.com/album/is-the-food-your-family-eats-slowly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJwGkb8KIs&list=RD2DJwGkb8KIs&start_radio=1

#GoodWillsmith #HansuMountain #NatalieChami #Drone #Ambient #Experimental #Music #Chicago

Ended the weekend and welcomed the week after a swim with Mirror Ensemble by Brett Naucke, released on American Dreams Records in 2021.

...Naucke utilized scenes from Andrei Tarkovsky’s foundational 1975 film The Mirror as a signpost for mood and atmosphere. It paid off - Mirror Ensemble is bold and beautiful, demonstrating the peak possibilities of focused creation and trust in those closest to you.

Mirror Ensemble is Naucke at his compositional and conceptual best. It’s a synthesizer record, an orchestral record, and in some ways even a soundtrack. While not quite indie rock, it’s a fierce burst into new territory, and with Naucke’s adventurous, ambitious writing and recording, there’s no telling where his attention will turn next.

https://brettnaucke.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-ensemble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDA_MxxxOqA&list=RDGDA_MxxxOqA&start_radio=1

#BrettNaucke #NatalieChami #ambient #viola #WhitneyJohnson #Modularsynthesizer #AmericanDreamsRecords #Tarkovsky

Vines by Damiana, released on Hausu Mountain in 2021

"Natalie Chami and Whitney Johnson perform as a duo under the name Damiana. Both artists have built their own catalogs as multi-instrumentalist improvisers and composers in the Chicago experimental music scene, exploring the intersections between ambient, electro-acoustic improv, and more legible songcraft based around their voices and their work with synths and electronics -- all filtered through their backgrounds in classical performance and education..."

https://hausumountain.bandcamp.com/album/vines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84LWwmbWR8&list=RDb84LWwmbWR8&start_radio=1

#Damiana #NatalieChami #ambient #WhitneyJohnson #HausuMountain #ChicagoMusic

Ended Thursday and started a Friday off work after a swim with Acquiesce by TALsounds, released on NNA Tapes in 2020.

For an artist whose career is almost entirely improvisational, TALsounds has refined a stunning style of music that sounds as meticulous as it does surprising. Since picking the moniker nine years ago, Natalie Chami has been flitting between experimental electronica, mood-driven minimalism, and classically trained choral singing as a solo artist in Chicago. On her fifth album, Acquiesce, she dives inward without constraints and invites the listener to do the same, to lose track of time, and to let emotion dictate what happens next.

Chami is a DIY staple within Chicago’s electronic scene as a solo artist, a member of Good Willsmith, and a frequent collaborator of Brett Naucke, Matchess, and others...

https://talsounds.bandcamp.com/album/acquiesce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Kx3xokaSM&list=OLAK5uy_kjIobJvxiZ32lpjbAp179lQNRfIWrrhDM&index=1

#TALsounds #NatalieChami #chicago