Post-rock; post-ambient ; post-office. The 50s romantic pop re-imagined as a global hyper colour fever dream through improvised textural guitar. The atomic age and retrofuturism on deteriorated film helping you to relax and chill out to the post-apocalyptic sound of long dead imaginations.
Hiperad came from an idea to take old songs as the prompts for improvisation. About half of season 3 of the podcast was influenced by this approach where I took the music (mainly chords) from the first number 1 records of the charts. The vibe I was going for was a post-apocalyptic community finding these and trying to remake them with whatever they had available, incorporating whatever style they thought because they wouldn't know what it actually sounded like. From this distance how would you know what was 50s or 80s or just an indeterminate “now”?
released April 10, 2024
Guitar - James Hastings