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You never expect your day to cross paths with music that sounds like how "Blade Runner's" dystopian Los Angeles city looks with cover art exsanguinating from Cheshire Cat's acid trip (courtesy of tefheart). But when you do, you have to expedite it to as many ears as possible.
Producer, artist and overall bassist first, Rugawd's nine-track instrumental project "Cats Play With Strings" scores the descend into the rabbit hole where the other side comes flush with screwy melodies and impossible bass licks along stout chord progressions. Chic rhythms are set like game stages and any given stage's environment can and will change. The project's fifth life, otherwise regarded as the song "Synesthesia," brings in slippery keyboard and six finger bass work rearing the impossible licks that never retracts its claws while climbing to new heights. "String Theory" (the only song with a producer feature) features Ethereal and couples rolling 808s and claps with grabby strings and ribbiting undertones playing. ST's production subdues the mood, placing a fantasy within a richer dream. The way in which "Luna's Lullaby" is sectioned as itchy synthesizer rays, rippling chord progressions and mocha flavored drums against a melodic, off-center bass solo displays the push and pull -- the two steps forward and two steps back, if you will -- of the entire project in one song. Not to mention "Nepeta Cataria" sounds exactly how the title is pronounced, which gets into strange territory almost like cats themselves.
Rugawd's mesmeric bass playing throughout "Cats Play With Strings" genuinely does the most in the effort it typically takes to get and keep a cat's attention. And in that conquest he captured and kept mine and on a larger scale our attention. So don't wait till your ninth life to start listening now.
Listen to "Cats Play With Strings" below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com/ @tefheart (via Instagram)
You never expect your day to cross paths with music that sounds like how "Blade Runner's" dystopian Los Angeles city looks with cover art exsanguinating from Cheshire Cat's acid trip (courtesy of tefheart). But when you do, you have to expedite it to as many ears as possible.
Producer, artist and overall bassist first, Rugawd's nine-track instrumental project "Cats Play With Strings" scores the descend into the rabbit hole where the other side comes flush with screwy melodies and impossible bass licks along stout chord progressions. Chic rhythms are set like game stages and any given stage's environment can and will change. The project's fifth life, otherwise regarded as the song "Synesthesia," brings in slippery keyboard and six finger bass work rearing the impossible licks that never retracts its claws while climbing to new heights. "String Theory" (the only song with a producer feature) features Ethereal and couples rolling 808s and claps with grabby strings and ribbiting undertones playing. ST's production subdues the mood, placing a fantasy within a richer dream. The way in which "Luna's Lullaby" is sectioned as itchy synthesizer rays, rippling chord progressions and mocha flavored drums against a melodic, off-center bass solo displays the push and pull -- the two steps forward and two steps back, if you will -- of the entire project in one song. Not to mention "Nepeta Cataria" sounds exactly how the title is pronounced, which gets into strange territory almost like cats themselves.
Rugawd's mesmeric bass playing throughout "Cats Play With Strings" genuinely does the most in the effort it typically takes to get and keep a cat's attention. And in that conquest he captured and kept mine and on a larger scale our attention. So don't wait till your ninth life to start listening now.
Listen to "Cats Play With Strings" below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com/ @tefheart (via Instagram)
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