Drummer Chris Corsano has today shared I Don’t Have Missions, the lead single from his forthcoming album The Key (Became The Important Thing [& Then Just Faded Away]), out June 28th. The album offers a rare instance of this prolific collaborator ( with Paul Flaherty, Joe McPhee, Dredd Foole, Michael Flower, Paul Dunmall, Bill Orcutt, Nate Wooley, Mette Rasmussen, C. Spencer Yeh, Ben Chasny & Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Nace, Wally Shoup, Evan Parker and dozens of other players) going deep on his own vision, a concept that extends to the accompanying kaleidoscopic music video that Chris painted & formulated himself.
Stream the single here: https://lnk.to/thekeyfadedaway
The album is described as encompassing a focus on free improvisation and noise into a granular fusion with acoustic experiments and ideations of hard rock riffing and post-punk sound.
Drag City: the intensity radiates entirely from inside Chris’s process, in conversation with himself. He’s involved in every aspect of the process here: making his own string-drums with which to anchor each performance and tapping into multiple instruments for some Corsano-on-Corsano overdubbing. Not to mention mixing the record. And hell, painting the record.
For those curious, Chris’s string drum involves stretching a silicone string across a snare with a bridge, resonating a bass note when struck. According to DC, this foundation implied possibilities for full band arrangements, which Chris was compelled to respond to himself across his new album; his guitar playing on “I Don’t Have Missions” reveals a semi-unconscious attempt to Frankenstein together the influences of several of his six-string collaborators, locating a new staggering space in Chris’s music.
Pre-Order The Key: https://www.dragcity.com/products/the-key-became-the-important-thing-then-just-faded-away
Bandcamp: https://chriscorsano.bandcamp.com/album/the-key-became-the-important-thing-and-then-just-faded-away
Tour Dates
Don’t miss Chris’s upcoming solo tour dates in the UK in May with Earth Ball.
Egypt
19th May @ Cairo Jazz Club – Cairo
^Solo and w/ Alan Bishop
UK
*Opening for Earth Ball
20th May @ Cafe OTO – London
21st May @ Cafe OTO – London
22nd May @ The White Hotel – Manchester
23rd May @ Cube Cinema – Bristol
24th May @ English Bridge Workshop – Shrewsbury
25th May @ Flying Duck – Glasgow
26th May @ Lubber Fiend – Newcastle
27th May @ Wharf Chambers – Leeds
28th May @ The Chapel – Nottingham
29th May @ Con Club – Lewes
30th May @ The Cavern – Exeter