Phil Cook - All These Years (CD)For Phil Cook, it all started with piano. A prolific songwriter, multi instrumentalist, solo artist, and in demand musician whose collaborations have run the gamut of genre as a founding member of beloved band Megafaun to work with The Blind Boys of Alabama, Bon Iver, Kanye West, and Hiss Golden Messenger, to name a few Cook has always been a musicians musician. A sweet and affable presence whose musical dexterity elevates every project he touches,

45rpm 7" vinyl with die cut jacket

the producer and electronic musician also known as Four Tet

The sea is immense and ancient

beginning with the junkyard percussion and delightful bass splashes that frame “Tem” and ending with the surrealistic boom-bap of thumb pianos and shakers on “Can Tangle

The physical release of these two songs will be released on 12” vinyl by Psychic Hotline on June 30

where “Two Hands in My Pocket” is a galloping wonder of bright-eyed enthusiasm

it opens up a more expansive understanding of closeness – one that

” and “Uiara (Encantada da Agua) – Life and Cure” recount the legends of powerful spirits

It keys on two of Westerlund’s musical lodestars: Seaton and Milford Graves

how it should feel

it feels subversive to be playing MPB laced with dubstep and lo-fi

the album was recorded in Rio de Janeiro