Bring in the Lampstand and Light Its Lamps

by B. Tweel

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1.	Anybody Home 02:41	buy track
2.	Gigantes del Country 04:46	buy track
3.	Adelante 03:22	buy track
4.	Wash the Instrument 04:12	buy track
5.	Please Choose an Activity 01:48	buy track
6.	Betzalel 03:32	buy track
7.	Fruta Fresca 03:23	buy track
8.	Threshing 03:23	buy track

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This album is the sound of my household. Guitar, violin, cello, piano, mbiras of my (and my childrens’) construction, melodica, toy pianos and toy guitars, sounds of our lives, my children and their music lessons, deconstructed and recontextualized. This is atmospheric electroacoustic music equally indebted to Jan Jelinek, the Books, contemporary ambient and Matmos, and will be enjoyed by fans of Huerco S, Sam Gendel, and Four Tet. The album is sonically rich, and equal parts sculpted and improvisational. This is music that rewards close listening.

Most of the music I have created, under the name Build Buildings, looks inward, responding to its own internal logic. In this project I look outward, writing music that reflects where I live, in a city apartment, one of a pair of parents raising our children and passing down a life of music to them. I conceived of this project and began recording before the pandemic lockdowns in New York City, but it continued during the weeks and then months at home, during which time my youngest child was born. This is an album about family, and our family was never more concentrated than during this time.

I began with field recordings of our home and of the music in our home. In contrast to sound-isolated studio recordings, the instruments were recorded in context, with the background sounds of our life present. The purpose was to record how the act of playing music exists in the intimacy of our home.

As the project continued, I thought about the creation of home, which is defined not by physical things, but by the actions and relations within. I thought about the biblical artisan Betzalel, tasked with crafting the Mishkan, the desert tabernacle, an impermanent space to house the divine. (The album’s title is a reference.) The beauty and the craftsmanship are crucial to the establishment of the space, but it is the space itself—the home—that is holy.

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released November 19, 2022

Brooklyn, New York, musician Ben Tweel has released numerous albums as Build Buildings, including Audiobulb releases A Generation of Books and Glass EP, as well as the acclaimed albums There is a Problem with My Tape Recorder and Ceiling Lights from Street. His music has scored podcasts such as Love + Radio, Radiolab, On the Media, Reply All and StartUp; and films such as Valley Uprising. This is his first release under his own name, reflecting a more vulnerable and intimate sound. The album still highlights the blend of organic instruments and processed computer productions that he has perfected over the years, but has an added emphasis on the raw sound of acoustic instruments.

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Brooklyn, New York, musician Ben Tweel has released numerous albums as Build Buildings, including Audiobulb releases A Generation of Books and Glass EP, as well as the acclaimed albums There is a Problem with My Tape Recorder and Ceiling Lights from Street. This is his first release under his own name, reflecting a more vulnerable and intimate sound. ... more

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