Visitation by Mount Vermont

The “Visitation” EP by my electronic music side project Mount Vermont is available now. It was hard to make any substantial music worth releasing for the past several months which I know is normal for many but unsettling for me. My mind was concerned with other things and the creative energy was low. I nevertheless felt I was very overdue to release something as Mount Vermont so I just stepped back and gave myself permission to get back to a spirit of discovery and play.
I thought about early John Tejada and other early IDM artists I loved. The Warp Records 10+2 Classics Compilation with all of its artists was a game changer in my listening back in the day. This EP was me looking back at the past but also learning to make sounds in a new way with the new opportunities afforded by both my current software and hardware.
I’d be remiss to acknowledge that there is a darkness behind all the grooves. I thought a lot about how I have this strange out of body experience observing the absurdity of the times we’re living in. Why is it that we have to defend the preservation of life through a ceasefire? Why is that that we are attacked when we’re trying to understand what helps keep people alive? I got into this dark spiral and sometimes I had to just retreat to rhythms to bring me back to life. For some it may sound odd but I had to dance my way out of it. I’m not a gifted dancer or mover by any means but by creating beats and patterns that had movement to them it felt like a necessary and primal act to do.
“If you come as a visitor, learn how to listen before you say anything at all.”

Samuel Kim is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer currently based in Seattle, WA

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