{"title":"Savant","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rervng07","title":"Savant - Artificial Dance","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT: ReRVNG07\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: September 4, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story of electronic music pioneer \u003cstrong\u003eKerry Leimer\u003c\/strong\u003e continues with a focus on his auteurist studio project \u003cstrong\u003eSavant\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompiling the standalone album, 1983's \u003cem\u003eThe Neo Realist (At Risk)\u003c\/em\u003e, with Savant's debut 12\" and a grip of compilation and unreleased tracks, \u003cem\u003eArtificial Dance\u003c\/em\u003e documents Leimer's complete collaborative venture into the unpredictable realities of music, exploring the gulf between what is expected by its creators and what is eventually - and eternally - committed to tape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavant was designed by Leimer to tap into entropic truths, asserting an uncaged counterpart to the loop-based minimalism he produced in isolation (recently surveyed on RVNG Intl.’s \u003cem\u003eA Period of Review (1975-1983)\u003c\/em\u003e). Aligning himself with the Cage-ean principles of chance operations and musical contingency, Savant was a band sans jam. Allegorically, a blindfolded collaboration whose happenstance source music Leimer would sample, loop and sculpt at will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeimer was creatively autonomous to the point of being a persona absentia in Seattle's 80s rock scene. Unconcerned by social status, Leimer enlisted musicians from experimental and post-punk groups in the area to come record as Savant at his home studio, Tactical. Among them were ambient composer \u003cstrong\u003eMarc Barreca\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e (founder of Op Magazine - the experimental music publication), \u003cstrong\u003eJim\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Keller\u003c\/strong\u003e of the \u003cstrong\u003eNew Flamingos\u003c\/strong\u003e, and their bandmate \u003cstrong\u003eAlex Petit\u003c\/strong\u003e. Others, like \u003cb\u003eRoy Finch\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDennis Rea\u003c\/strong\u003e, came from a similar orbit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven with these musicians at his beck and call, Leimer implemented a disarming musical strategy. Savant would have no fixed line up and often musicians would be asked to play instruments far outside their forté. Leimer would however give loose rhythmic direction for the musicians to develop spontaneously against click-tracks. When the performance locked in with Leimer listening at the controls, he'd capture it to tape. These moments became the soul of Savant and the combustive elements that would variegate its timbres.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavant tonally operates in a space between \u003cstrong\u003eThis Heat's\u003c\/strong\u003e dark primitivism and the found sound collage of \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Eno\u003c\/strong\u003e \u0026amp; \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Byrne's\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e. These analogies are simply stylistic, as the narrative behind \u003cem\u003eThe Neo-Realist’s\u003c\/em\u003e production makes clear Leimer was concocting via more alchemic means, avoiding genre aspirations by looking for accidental moments of musical intrigue and discovery. Leimer explains this process in the collection's liner notes: \"I was looking for flaws, for faults to act as the stand-out features of the music.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFar from a provisional stab at avant-garde sensibilities, Savant represents Leimer’s repudiation of ambient music's passive side. \u003cem\u003eArtificial Dance\u003c\/em\u003e embodies a perfectionist’s family portrait of outré musicians conforming to Leimer's nonconformist musical ethos. Fitting for its name, Leimer created conditions for asocial brilliance with Savant, materializing an outward offering from an inward studio and a collaboration of audacious invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSavant’s \u003cem\u003eArtificial Dance\u003c\/em\u003e is available now as double LP set, CD, and digitally. Extensive liner notes and artist interviews were overseen by \u003cstrong\u003eAaron Leitko\u003c\/strong\u003e. The collection was assembled by RVNG and K. 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