Entropy by Jake Nicoll

After working on "Two Things' and 'Half of Nothing' I was feeling like I wanted to deconstruct a little bit and make something less precious and less intentional. Voila. My favorite track is 'Train From Montreal' which was mostly recorded on the train from Montreal, after a short stay in Kira Sheppard's sweltering summer apartment.

All along the process of making this album I was calling it an instrumental album, which it isn't really. It's more of a concept album, revolving around the idea of a gradual fall into disorder. Originally I was going to end it with a wall of white noise... you know, the final decay of the musical system into a homogeneous chaos. Great idea, not fun to listen to.

A big feature of the sound is a Dynachord tape delay I bought in Berlin this summer. The tape delay fit in sonically and conceptually as a machine that literally loops a sound into itself, allowing it to rapidly decay into an indistinguishable smear of noise. It created many of the textures that fill up the background of these songs.

Jake Nicoll is a musician currently living in windy old St. John's Newfoundland. Jake plays drums in a number of bands in town and writes songs on piano, guitar, synthesizer and anything else that's around.