Exit Signal, by SOMAFREE INSTITUTE

Exit Signal

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1.	Aurora 01:46	buy track
2.	Somnambulists 05:23	buy track
3.	Horizon 07:22	buy track
4.	Phase Induction 05:08	buy track
5.	Burning Darkness 04:34	buy track
6.	Simulacrum 04:22	buy track
7.	Exit Signal { Ascension } 07:58	buy track

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Existing at the nexus of the acoustic and the electronic world, Seattle’s SOMAFREE INSTITUTE expand upon the established foundation of their Vertical Helix Scan and Seek Sound Shelter EPs with their debut LP, Exit Signal. Anchored by drummer Tim Call and launched into the stratosphere by analog synth wizards Andrew Crawshaw and Justin Thomas Kleine, SOMAFREE INSTITUTE deliver seven tracks of propulsive and pulsating instrumentals that simultaneously rocket into the future while slyly navigating old school methods.

Harnessed and captured by Tim Green (The Fucking Champs, Unwound, Six Organs of Admittance) at Louder Studios, Exit Signal serves as a document of three musicians pushing and pulling against the electronic world in real time. The result is an album that beats with a human heart even as synth arpeggios, vocoded vocals, and auxiliary programmed percussion paint a chrome and neon landscape. There’s a palpable tension in that dichotomy, reinforced by SOMAFREE INSTITUTE’s suspenseful—if not outright sinister—timbral and melodic choices. Too evocative on its own merits to warrant the soundtrack designation, too dynamic to serve as a metronomic stimulant, and too engaging to merely color the air, Exit Signal is an active and engaging tactile exploration of the electronic world’s textural possibilities rendered in song form.

- Brian Cook (Sumac / Botch / Russian Circles )

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released April 5, 2024

Tim call - Drums / Synthesizers / Vocoder

Andrew Crawshaw - Synthesizers / Programming

Justin Thomas Kleine - Synthesizers / Vibraphone / Vocoder

*Justin Sweatt - Synthesizers / Guitar on Void / DPJ / Phase Induction

*Tim Green - Synthesizers + Piano on Simulacrum / Electroniczny Morderca /

Synthesizers Recorded by Andrew Crawshaw @ Moto Sonic Studio 2019 - 2022

Drums, Vibes and Additional Synths Engineered and Recorded by Tim Green @ Louder Studios January 2023

Additional Synths recorded by Justin Sweatt January 2023

Mixed and Mastered by Tim Green @ Louder Studios

Produced by SOMAFREE INSTITUTE and Tim Green

Moog Sub37, Moog Matriarch, Moog Minitaur, Moog Mother-32, Sequential Prophet 600, Sequential Prophet 6, Sequential Pro3, Sequential Rev2, Sequential Pro One, Sequential Six Trak, Elektron Analog Four, Elektron Digitone, Arturia Matrixbrute , Arturia Microfreak, Korg Poly61M, Korg Polysix, Korg Mono/Poly, Korg Minilogue, Roland Juno-106, Waldorf Streichfett, Novation Bass Station, Arp String Ensemble, Behringer 2600, Behringer Wasp, Mellotron M4000D, Erica Synths Syntrx, Eurorack System (4MS, Roland, Erica Synths), Vibraphone, Ludwig Drum Kit, Cymbals,

Fender Jazz Master, Piano, Warp Factory Vocoder

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