Center & Blur, by Bubba Crumrine

Center & Blur

by Bubba Crumrine

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1.	Zwischen Den Kisten 05:40	buy track
2.	Stainless Tongue Etude 03:55	buy track
3.	Chosen. 06:48	buy track
4.	New Cartographers 03:24	buy track
5.	Lay Down Your Horns 02:27	buy track
6.	Release All to the Wilds 06:05	buy track
7.	Mallets 05:14	buy track
8.	Coiled 01:15	buy track
9.	Choke 03:38	buy track

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Bubba Crumrine’s third studio release, “Center & Blur,” is anchored in voice, synth, and percussion and threads a line between ambient, noise, and cantor music. Dense instrumentals pair with queer lyrical themes of discovery, protest, and a future, post-gender world.

Writing began ahead of a pre-pandemic tour with Jen Kutler, then completed in lockdown. Guests include Cameron Wisch (Porches, Cende) on drums, Keir Neuringer (Irreversible Entanglements) on tenor sax, and Amy Zuidema on bass clarinet.

During lockdown, Crumrine launched a benefit collaboration EP, “A Pod Apart,” with proceeds going to the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition Mission and whose first track, “Beyond The Pink Rainbow” was picked up for the U.S. Trailer for “Deliver Us.” They also appeared as keynote speaker for Cornell University’s “Sounding Out Ithaca” panel and curated three virtual events through Experimental Sound Studio’s The Quarantine Concert Series, which received a feature from The Wire.

Since 2014, Bubba Crurmine has performed with the likes of Wendy Eisenburg, Amirtha Kidambi, Chris Corsano, Sarah Hennies, Toby Driver, Fuck The Facts, Cloud Rat, Odonis Odonis, Erica Dawn Lyle, Lucas Brode, and Machine Moon.

Since 2008, they’ve curated for and founded Ithaca Underground, which “changed the city's music scene” (Ithaca Journal), and even received a nod on Noisey/Vice in 2016.

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Composed and Performed by Bubba Crumrine
bubbacrumrine.bandcamp.com

Amy Zuidema - bass clarinet on "Chosen."
Cameron Wisch - drums on "Lay Down Your Horns"
Keir Neuringer - saxophone on "Coiled"

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Matthew Saccuccimorano at Electric Wilburland
www.scaramangaindustries.com

Artwork by Chris Corsano
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Layout by Dave Petersen

Co-released on CD by Astralands
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released April 26, 2022

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