New Media Contemporary Presents: Live Sound and Visuals Series

BOTANY | OTHERWORLDERS | PAUL UNGER

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BOTANY

Austin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Stephenson’s first proper solo LP in nearly four years End the Summertime F(or)ever is sample-studded mood board of bass-heavy abstract hip hop, spiraling psychedelia, and disco-house, that evaluates deep time, aging, societal upheaval, the afterlife, and the cosmic perspective as they appear through the distorting, relentless Texas heat. Though the album was titled long before the tumult of 2020, it serves as a premonitory fever dream of what has transpired in the months between its completion and release.

OTHERWORLDERS

An idea long held by Daniel Huffman (New Fumes), Otherworlders was launched as a recording project in 2022 after reuniting with friend and former band mate Karl Poetschke over Sunday tacos and recording sessions at the Dome Home in Dallas, Tx. 

Under the direction of Huffman, OW is a cohort of “otherworlder” musicians who lend their talent performing live, improvised live performances and recording tracks that act as a palette for Huffman's aural paintings that are the albums. Debut album, Hidden Energy/ Positive Light release on 07/23/2024 digitally on bandcamp and on cassette via Aural Canyon.

PAUL UNGER

Paul Unger is currently the Assistant Principal Bass of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Double Bass at TCU. Mr. Unger is an integral member of the critically acclaimed jazz

group, “Flipside”. A group referred to in Cadence magazine as “contemporary jazz at its best”, “exhilarating and challenging music making that is rarely dull. A band not to be missed”. David Lewis at Cadence said, “not only is Unger a first rate rhythm player, there is no question of his ability to extend his technique well beyond mainstream expectations.”