Ara Koufax

Jun
17
posted by tommy

I’ve made some big life mistakes but none bigger than failing to read Jake Cleland’s New Australian Music article in its entirety last week. Sure, I read the bit about Kimbra and watched the Liam Finn video (great video) but had I taken the time to listen to this Ara Koufax track then I wouldn’t be so far behind the eightball right now. This track came out nigh on eight days ago and in blog world, time functions in a similar way as in the concept of dog years so a one:seven sort of set up. Which, carrying on with this, means the track I’m putting before you is 56 days old. Maths.

I’m even willing to ignore my just now established 50 day rule to make a point with this track, that point being that the track is really good and wow I really think we should all have a great listen of it. Loops and loops of choral section make up that opening sequence that’s all at once warm and organic and thoroughly processed, cut and spliced. Soon the resulting wash of communal sound will make for mattress and blanket both as it lies underneath the vocal sample and atop that beat. I speak of everything relative to the beat because it is of course the blood red heart of the song. It’s rippling with energy and presented in a way only someone used to producing big, round bass sounds would know how. On that, now is as good a time as any to mention that this is basically a Naysayer & Gilsun track in that the two producers who make up Ara Koufax are, you know, Naysayer & Gilsun. Simultaneously it also very much isn’t a N&G track in that it’s a new tangeant for the duo, a direction that can’t coherently exist within  the limitations of N&G as an entity and so Ara Koufax is born, a brand new project from two trust worthy chaps. There’s an EP already recorded and awaiting release through Sam Gil’s own Downtime Records, not to be confused with Sam Gil’s Bossman Records (also discussed in Jake’s New Aus Music article).

 
Now let’s cast our minds back to that Naysayer & Gilsun remix of Oscar a few months back, shall we?
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  1. Mandy
    18/06/2014

    Funny concept, the song years :) Hey songs can live longer than dogs!!!
    I love the layers on this song.