This episode is work safe.
Brooklyn-based CrystalTop Music reached out to its extended network and brought together eleven beautiful gems from eleven different artists for CrystalTop Music Presents. But drawing a line through the sounds collected under the banner of CrystalTop Music is an exercise that's more likely to result in beautiful scribbles and loops than in a legible graph. "Diverse" barely begins to sketch the range. In fact, the common element shared by these artists may be the absence of a stylistic bag that can comfortably hold them; all the songs seem to reach for some sound that doesn't fit into easy black and white categories.
Interview with Jacob Bronstein of CrystalTop Music.
We discuss Pyeng Threadgill's cover of Bill Withers' "Can We Pretend"; what brough him to New York from San Francisco; how he met Pyeng; my interview with Luz Flemming of Luz Mob; how the CrystalTop Music Presents compilation album came together and the artists who appear on the CD; the CrystalTop Music record label; how he and Luz met; his role as a musician and a producer; performing with Aidan Hawken as Mega Bass; their forthcoming full-lenth album; Megabass USA, the sole distributor of Megabass fishing products in the United States; the Laws of Gravity movie; Luz Mob's cover of "Tabaco Y Ron."
Featured songs are:
- "Can We Pretend" by Pyeng Threadgill
- "Harmony" by Ryan Scott
- "Tabaco Y Ron" by Luz Mob
