Reviews:

(Vital Weekly) Day is also actively involved in projects with other people, such as Naturaliste and Euphotic. As Expensive People, he teams up with L. Eugene Methe (Naturaliste, Rake Cash, Simon Joyner, Gertrude Tapes) and Alex Boardman (Shelf Life, Rake Cash, Watch the Stereo). They use a violin, electronics, invented instruments, synths, guitar, bass, and effects. This is more improvised music, with that noise/drone/rock element attached. Nothing all too nervous and hectic playing, but more the slow-burning, mildly distorted feedback music. It’s a bit of New Zealand, if you get my drift. Expensive People create broken textures, which fall apart as they are being played. It has that mysterious feeling, a search for something or somebody in a darkened forest, a bit directionless, which is the beauty of it all. Psychedelic music is another word to describe the works here, but it is very much a different kind of psychedelia here. The tracks are lengthy, drifting wide and far, and maybe on the long side if you are not out of it. It’s best enjoyed with a beer or some wine, not doing anything but enjoying this broken-up drone-inspired improvisation for a dismantled rock combo. - Frans De Waard

(Felt Hat) The material was recorded last year 2023 but has been released now by Spleen Coffin records as a handsomely designed cassette with eight tracks. Three on Side A and five on Side B. As with the profiles of all the gentleman involved it's a pretty interesting conundrum of a musical material and pretty difficult to classify. It's on pair with improvised and outsider music in a very broad sense. On one hand we have an instrument builder and music designer - Bryan Day who is ingeniously unpredictable and beautifully well-rounded musician that sounds like no one else. L. Eugene Methe that has a motto of DIY tattooed all over his body and ingeniously using different instruments but along with Alex Boardman of Shelf Life, Rake Cash, Watch the Stereo fame, they all use violin, electronics, invented instruments, synths, guitar, bass, and effects. The effect sounds fresh and appealing as it unfolds itself. All three of them not only know how to gear up a nice set of pieces that are involving for a listener but also know how to wrap them up so they are not too short or too long and have a steady narrative which is important in that file of music. Looking forward to some new outings from those busy three. - Hubert Napioski

(Bad Alchemy) Bryan Day ist ein gutes Exempel für das Prinzip 'Doppelleben'. Mit einem Nähr- & Standbein im Exploratorium in San Francisco. Aber freier Hand als Gestalter freispielerischer, spontaner Klangverläufe mit Invented Instruments, Homemade Synths, Found Tapes & Objects und als Macher von Public Eyesore/Eh?. Und damit ein Inbegriff für Sub-Underground und DIY. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE (Spleencoffin, SP-72-CS, C-47) zeigt ihn im Winter 2023 in Omaha im Zusammenklang von Violin, Electronics, Invented Instruments, Synths, Organ, Guitar, Bass & Effects mit L. Eugene Methe (Days Spielgefährte in Naturaliste und Macher von Gertrude Tapes) und Alex Boardman (Partner von Day schon in Shelf Life und von Methe in Rake Kash). 'Sandstorm' und 'Ancillary Sediment' sind dazu passende Selbstaussagen. Doch wer sind da die 'Revisionists' und was wäre eine 'No Return Policy'? Hört man da Postrocker auf Draht, oder postindustriale Ausläufer ins Dystopische? Rauschen und knirschen da der Sand im Getriebe, oder das Salz der Erde, melancholische Auguren, oder allzeit bereite Prepper? - Rigo Dittmann

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