Basement Tape, by Miles Francis & Jas Walton

Basement Tape

by Miles Francis & Jas Walton

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- clear green tape edition
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- art/design by Adrian Patino
- j-card print by Barrio Print

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1.	Doo Wop [intro] 02:00	buy track
2.	Tuesday 04:17	buy track
3.	Ruffing It 05:37	buy track
4.	Physically Uncomfortable 03:33	buy track
5.	Hold On a Sec 02:19	buy track
6.	Shoulda Had a Baby 04:49	buy track
7.	Use of Space 02:38	buy track
8.	Some Sax 03:46	buy track

about

“It’s somewhere between NSYNC and Steve Reich,” says Miles. “It’s like taking one element you would hear in a Talking Heads song, freezing it and elongating it, and then diving into that. Instead of just popping over to the next idea, we stay there and explore, savoring every little morsel of what a composition or what a song could be.”

MF & JW – former Antibalas members and founders of NY band EMEFE – started experimenting and making beats in Miles’ basement in the fall of 2015. Both are usually very meticulous when it comes to details and revisions, but these afternoons would “just be this initial burst over a few hours and we would do everything we could,” says Miles.

On August 7, 2020, Figure & Ground marks its tenth release with Basement Tape, an all-instrumental album comprising eight original tracks by Miles Francis and Jas Walton.

Jas describes: “our relationship has historically been to work with some kind of intention that is either afrobeat or EMEFE-related. With this project, it’s totally free from baggage for me. That’s what feels so fresh about it. You can hear so much of the process in the actual product because there’s not a whole lot of other production stuff happening – it’s like, here are the elements of the ideas and here’s how we organize them, and just step back and listen.”

Basement Tape is a follow up to the duo’s first album Explorations in Drums & Sax (2016), also on Figure & Ground. “This is almost like a deconstruction of what went into our first record. This is where it starts – naked, in a way,” says Miles.

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credits

released August 7, 2020

composed, performed + produced by Miles Francis & Jas Walton
recorded at Cornelia Street Studio (a.k.a the basement)

mixed by Lily Wen
mastered by Eli Crews
art/design by Adrian Patino
print by Barrio Print

© Figure & Ground 2020