High Flavors, by Max Kutner

High Flavors

by Max Kutner

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archerliam Ok I think I’m ready to sound off on this astounding release. Max has assembled some fine players that all speak the same ‘language’. Highly recommended for fans of textured improvised chaos.

Flavours Hook Kids must certainly be a nod to vaping and the tactics companies use to target kids! My favourite song title on the album and probably my favourite song too! Although that changes every time I listen because there are just so many special things happening in every track.

A fine document Favorite track: Flavors Hook Kids.

Brendan Byrnes This record is really special. Incredible textures, grooves, and musicianship. This is the kind of record you could listen to a million times. Favorite track: Struggling Sometimes.

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1.	Deramping 05:45 video	buy track
2.	A High Point of Low Culture 04:21	buy track
3.	Infinity Has No Center 05:42	buy track
4.	In Want Of An Interpolative Escape Machine 06:09	buy track
5.	Struggling Sometimes 04:31	buy track
6.	Flavors Hook Kids 05:35	buy track
7.	Towers Collapsing 03:31	buy track
8.	Less A Moral Lesson 06:52	buy track

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"Besides being crammed with smart writing and absorbing instrumental detail, it's an exquisitely paced record. Owners of adventurous ears owe it to themselves to hear it." - The Stash Dauber, Nov. 2022

This is my first album as a bandleader under my own name as well as my first composed album since moving to NY in 2018. It's a pretty important release for me because of these two factors and also how much of a direct hand I had in the production and realization. The pieces represent the fullest, most fluid realization to date of my musical personality and expand on much of the work I've done with all of my prior projects in Los Angeles (Bubbeleh, Izela, Evil Genius, Android Trio, etc.). If there was a theme tying the stuff together, I think I could best describe it as "mental movies". This is the content of my skull splayed out in full color and sprawled across all the pieces. I'm extremely proud of how much the music speaks to my interests, humor, taste and even my playing.

The music here is performed by a quintet of New York-based musicians (and some of my closest friends in town). In addition to guitars, I also play keyboards, electronic drums and place prerecorded samples throughout all the tracks. A recording of my grandfather playing saxophone during a concert of his from the 70s is sampled on track 2.

The album was recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi at BC Studios in Gowanus. That is the same studio where Swans, White Zombie, Bill Laswell's Material, Zorn, Violent Femmes, Dresden Dolls, Blind Idiot God, Sonic Youth, Brandon Seabrook, Sana Nagano and a host of others made albums over the past 40 years. Martin was directly involved with all of that as engineer. The main room is in the bowels of an old canning factory and used to be a horse stable as I understand it. It's an enormous space with tons of ultra reflective brick for a super live, cavernous sound which comes across on all the tracks. This gave the set a unique aesthetic for an album of through-composed, math-y compositions featuring a band which is a jazz-like orchestration (plus me anyway). We recorded the whole set on Sat, Sept 18th, 2021 and I gradually created overdubs of my parts and the synth content from my apartment over a period of roughly 4-5 months. Martin and I mixed the tracks together at BC in 3 8-hour sessions over the first half of 2022.

I hope it appeals to musically curious folks who share tastes across prog, math-rock, modern jazz and free improvisation among other styles and also folks who are firmly dedicated to their sense of humor and prefer to take in full-length albums the old-fashioned way: from start to finish.

-MK, 11/04/2022

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released December 2, 2022

Recorded September 18, 2021 at BC Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY.
Mixed November 2021 - July 2022

All tracks composed by Max Kutner (Maladept Music, ASCAP).

Max Kutner - Production, Electric Guitars, Samples, Synths
Eli Asher - Trumpet, Bells, Toys
Michael Eaton - Tenor Saxophone
Kurt Kotheimer - Electric Bass
Colin Hinton - Drumset

Martin Bisi - Recording and Mixing Engineer
Daniel Walter Eaton - Mastering
Eron Rauch - Cover Art

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Max Kutner New York, New York

Max Kutner is a guitarist/composer currently based in Brookyln, NY.

Max has previously performed and/or recorded with the Magic Band (Captain Beefheart), Henry Kaiser, Mike Keneally, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ulrich Krieger, Alphonso Johnson, Don Preston, Lili Haydn, Oingo Boingo and many others. ... more

discography

Partial Custody

Apr 2024
Downtown Kung-Fu Live Live

Aug 2023
High Flavors

Dec 2022
Content

Sep 2022
Miscellany A

Oct 2021
Maror

Nov 2020
World

May 2020
rummagelore

Aug 2019
Array

Feb 2018
Disaffection Finds Its Pure Form

Sep 2017

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