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muted colors

by Ben Sloan

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warren wigutow
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warren wigutow That was quite a time at the Birchmere last night! Your set was a textured, polyrhythmic marvel and the way you and your band mates built a sonic home around the wonder that is Beth Orton moved me deeply. Thanks for all of it. Warren
Mike Gintz
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Mike Gintz One of the best albums I've heard recently - incredibly varied and dynamic. Percussionist/composer Ben Sloan somehow creates something cohesive despite zipping from lush indie to hyperspeed dnb nu-jazz vocal processing freakouts to orchestral melancholy and incorporating a variety of guest vocalists—the album coheres around a core of beautifully-recorded percussion, lush synth layers, and glitchy processing.

RIYL: Dntel, Mouse on Mars
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My eyes shut / It’s like I’m coming back / My hands up / You weren't expecting that / I’m already gone / I’m big enough for this / But we had fun / that’s what I’m getting at / What’s the count on me?
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muted colors 03:35
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calm loop 01:17
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light feet 01:25
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On March 24, 2023, percussionist and producer Ben Sloan, who has performed and recorded with The National, Moses Sumney, Beth Orton, Mouse on Mars, Rozi Plain, Serengeti, and WHY?, releases his debut album, muted colors, a shapeshifting exploration of genre-fluid sound. And he brings a few of these friends on the journey. Featuring Sumney, Serengeti, Liz and Josiah Wolf of WHY?, and Felicia Douglass of Dirty Projectors, Sloan’s debut was culled from his digital scrapbook—old hard-drives, folders, field recordings, studio sessions, and countless voice memos—resulting in a time capsule-type album that feels frenetic, yet contemplative, betraying a heavy core beneath a flitting surface.

“The album is something of an abstracted diary,” says Sloan. “Each track is a vignette, a little colorful, sensational world to briefly indulge.”

For nearly a decade, over and over, Sloan toyed with, stowed away, unearthed, refined, then reburied the sounds on muted colors—a percussive construction site, a fleeting musical thought, a bird outside his bedroom window—until now, when they’re finally being heard by the world. But muted colors is not only intended to be heard, it’s also intended to be seen.

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released March 24, 2023

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