Billions of Cicadas

by BlipVert

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Stephen Weigel The first track alone is more exciting than like 99% of the music I've heard. It's like a more coherent dying & deceased - love it Favorite track: Zammo-Plan Phone (With Evens).

ddb This album will rock you like a novacaine. It's cracking open an ice cold 24 oz can of fresh toes. It's when the casino floor at the Golden Nugget Casino is a high-end audio production suite. It is that feeling you get when Lt. Commander Data pulls what looks like a dead body out of the trunk of his Saturn Sedan and yells "aché pa' ti" in falsetto and drops it down on the freshly cut lawn at your friend's dad's place, gets back in the driver seat of the Saturn and peels out. Favorite track: Blast Dimension 642.

Jay Schizoid Wonderful dizzing experimental electro music for the heavily caffeinated

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1.	Zammo-Plan Phone (With Evens) 05:53	info	buy track
2.	Blast Dimension 642 05:00	info	buy track
3.	Frog Pyramid 03:04	info	buy track
4.	Laser Bones and Dirty Combs 07:31	info	buy track
5.	The Dave Sustrick Meltdown 08:30	info	buy track
6.	Forest of Glass 08:19		buy track
7.	Blue Helix 12:18	info	buy track
8.	Sub-Network 07:22	info	buy track
9.	Coastal Static Fog 07:01	info	buy track
10.	Mothership 08:05	info	buy track

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Tracks 1-5: Cycle 1 - Stridulation

Tracks 6-10: Cycle 2 - Courtship

Billions of Cicadas, released in 2019 by BlipVert (aka Will Northlich-Redmond), presents a complex and dynamic 73 minute sonic mountain of fractured drum breaks, 8-bit synth blasts, alien R&B choirs, and warm ambient soundscapes. The record consists of two cycles of music, influenced by the unique and compelling idiosyncrasies of the cicada. "Stridulation" attempts to symbolize the resonant power and variability of cicada singing, while "Courtship" illustrates the more delicate essences of mating rituals - i.e. "tenderness at a higher resolution." Through the cicada's inspiration, two profoundly contrasting artistic identities of BlipVert are displayed - fury and calm - hence allowing the listener to explore this record from differing perspectives.

Everything composed, performed, produced by
Will Northlich-Redmond

Gene V Baker, organ and rhodes on
Laser Bones and Dirty Combs

Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper, Turtletone Studios, NYC
Artwork by Will Northlich-Redmond
Produced in cooperation with D-Trash Records
and Comorbid Productions
Copyright 2019 Will Northlich-Redmond

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released April 10, 2019

The finalization of this album would not have been possible without the generous support of the following people (in no particular order): Jay Schizoid, Lucas Marquardt, Gene V Baker, Colin Branch, Charlie Gorczynski, Mark Meloche, David Applegate, Beth Maudsley, Desiree White, Jeannie Malanowski, Calvin Liu, Katie Northlich, Pem McNerney, Dawn Dextrase, Ari Russo, Doug Parth, Bob LaDue, Carolin Pook, Michael (KM) Toepfer, Mary Gosler, Ethan Bokma, Allison Balcetis, Grier Carson, Abe Sorber, Scott Rosenberg, Gene Kosowan, Andrew Hall, Abram Hindle, Eric Trude (Stress Orphan), Michael Fossenkemper, Bill and Patricia Northlich

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