Man Down, by Shepherd Stevenson

Man Down

by Shepherd Stevenson

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2.	Submissions 03:54	buy track
3.	Hoary Notions 04:23	buy track
4.	Old Legions 04:04	buy track
5.	Sadurday 04:48	buy track
6.	With Dots 02:25	buy track
7.	Calm the Storm 05:01	buy track
8.	Way Down 03:57	buy track
9.	Floating 03:16	buy track

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Shepherd Stevenson is a musician, film composer and actor from Los Angeles, CA. He is a founding member and bass player of the notorious L.A. rock band Pigmy Love Circus. Prior to the Pigmys, He played guitar and sang in the noted Denver Colorado 80’s bands The Aviators, The Young Weasals, and Crankcall Loveaffair. Recent film composing projects include award winning indie films Erasing Eden, Doobious Sources, and Mermaid Down.

This is his first solo record. The music for this album was written as accompaniment for the art installation “Deep Map” by Annie Sperling and Mason Rothschild which was projected for on the U.S.S. Iowa in Long Beach, CA and benefitted Alta Sea’s Project Blue, a digital port for content and education resources for the emerging Blue Economy.

"Taking on a filmic quality the multi-tasking L.A. musician, composer and actor Shepherd Stevenson’s inaugural solo effort is rich with the sound of placeable cinematic soundtracks.

Although starting out as and then becoming a stalwart of the alternative 1980s Denver scene (The Aviators, The Young Weasels, Crankcall Loveaffiar), and then going on to help found the L.A. rock band Pigmy Love Circus, Stevenson has also proved a considered hand at composing music for films – a recent list of which includes Erasing Eden, Doobious Sources and Mermaid Down. This album debut, Man Down, was itself originally written to accompany Annie Sperling and Mason Rothschild’s Deep Map art installation, which was projected onto the side of the U.S.S. Iowa, moored in Long Beach; part of the Alta Sea’s Project Blue, a ‘digital port for content and education resources for the emerging Blue Economy’ (that is, exploration, preservation and regeneration of the marine environment). And whether it’s intentional or not, Stevenson often conjures up spells of fluted and dreamy underwater fantasies: ‘Submissions’ to these ears sounds like a Verne-inspired dive beneath the waves, with a touch of both equal enchantment and scuba-equipped Bond thriller.

Occasionally something more foreboding, alien emerges from the depths like some ancient Lovecraftian leviathan. This effect, evocation can be felt on the oppressive and crushing bass, shadowy ‘Old Legions’ – a mix of Jóhann Jóhannsson at his most ominous and touch of Bernard Szajner and Room Of Wires.

For the majority of the time Stevenson molds kosmische, techno and synthwave into various futurist and mysterious projections; stirring up a gently burbled and bubbled acid and fluttered progressive-techno suite of otherworldly sonar waves and cosmic noir on the opening ‘B. Whaler’, and channeling Cliff Martinez on the scalextric-set looping dystopian scares ‘Sadurday’. There’s also some strange Germanic classical fairground thing going on with the Wendy Carlos and Roedelius harped, heavenly ‘ode to toy’ ‘With Dots’. I also detect some lovely climbing Eno notes on the deeply felt and bass-stamped, but neoclassical ebbing, ‘Hoary Notions’. And just when you think you’ve got him worked out, ‘Way Down’ motors at a nice speed towards Germanic 80s synth pop.

Hymnal Western-twanged dives, sci-fi vistas and unknown entities await on a finely-crafted, cinematic quality debut. Stripped of its original visuals, it’s left to the listener to dream and be moved to the lilted and more feared aspects of the imagination."
~ Dominic Valvona
monolithcocktail.com/2022/08/08/the-perusal-34-claude-li-yilei-the-movers-foch-delplanque-staraya-derevnya-brown-calvin/

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released August 5, 2022

The tracks were written to be used as accompaniment to the art installation “Deep Map" by Annie Sperling and Mason Rothschild, part of Alta Sea’s Project Blue, benefitting education to sustain and utilize the world’s oceans.

Written and Produced by Shepherd Stevenson
in Los Angeles, CA
Mastered by Mark Fuller in Sebastopol, CA
Cover Painting by Annie Sperling
Design by Concetta Halstead-Lord Creative
℗ and © Shepherd Stevenson Music, BMI

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