End of Summer Music, by Michael Potter

End of Summer Music

by Michael Potter

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1.	Crickets, Cicadas, Fireflies 08:34	buy track
2.	Outside, Night 07:52	buy track
3.	Harmonic Exit 04:54	buy track

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Recorded at home in Athens, GA - Summer 2016

Artwork and risograph design by Caro Mikalef / Cabina

Originally released as a split cassette with Philipp Bückle on \\NULL|ZØNE//

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released September 8, 2017

"Built on a caressing swirl of looped guitars and and echoing chords, “Crickets, Cicadas, Fireflies” is warm and radiant like the final vestiges of a setting sun. There’s an aura of melancholy lurking there as well, a kind of autumnal glow that speaks to the second half of the LP’s title ('End of Summer Music'), which presumably refers to Potter’s portion of the record. Constantly shifting in gradual, subtle evolutions, the track lacks a rhythmic core, choosing instead to float across your speakers in a meditative mist. If there were a soundtrack to losing yourself and staring into the distance, this would almost certainly be on it." - Guillermo Castro, Immersive Atlanta

"Crickets, Cicadas, Fireflies" cuts right to the quick, perfectly highlighting Potter's Southern-tinged guitar psychedelia. Looped and layered guitar tones take shape in a cool cloud of humid sound. "Outside Night" and "Harmonic Exit" only solidify this sentiment, extending the moonlit navel-gazing and emphasizing a regional charm." - Bobby Power, Creative Loafing

"\\NULL|ZØNE// has published a few tapes for late 2017 and early 2018 whose sound ranges and styles differ quite a bit, but which are connected by an undercurrent of personal, relatively idiosyncratic aesthetics. “Homegrown experimentalism”, the label calls it, not in the nationalistic sense (I think) but in the way in which all these artists develop new sounds that are not really interested in currents or in overtly academic thought.

"Perhaps the clearest example is the Phillip Bückle and Michael Potter tape, each side of which is entitled differently: Bückle’s They Never Got the Message and Potter’s End of Summer Music develop a naturalistic theme in which improv sways from sharp droning and unpredictability to melodic psychedelics and minimalism over the course of 40 minutes. Thus, the two sides flow into each other, however you wish to play them, with Potter’s stable but polyphonic approach mirrored by Bückle’s shifting structures, allowing the noise and uncertainty of the latter to become even more striking, or the mantra-like development of the first to become even more soothing. The cover art by the excellent Caro Mikalef reflects well the juxtaposition taking place between artists, styles, and modi operandi, in which Bückle’s experiments with the recording process itself (like in “The Craftsman”) resonates with Potter’s much more straightforward focus on ambience and mood." - David Murrieta, A Closer Listen

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