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Cryptacize
Dig That Treasure (Asthmatic
Kitty)
Also known as water witching, dowsing is the
ancient practice of finding water, buried mineral deposits,
gems, lost pets or possessions, and people. Doswers tap into
movements or vibrations using forked twigs, L-shaped rods,
pendulums, or sometimes nothing at all. The accuracy of dowsing
is widely debated, and often the relationship between cause
and effect is misunderstood or imagined.
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Cryptacize began across the street from the C&H Sugar
Factory in Crockett, CA, where Nedelle Torrisi
(former Kill Rock Stars artist) and Chris Cohen
(The Curtains) lived in an apartment slightly tilted. There,
constant dizziness and the smell of burning sugar became a
permanent part of their psyches. One morning while brushing
their teeth, toothpaste running sideways out of their mouths,
Nedelle pronounced the word 'Cryptacize' and things were never
the same. Seemingly, the house now inclined in the opposite
direction! Soon after this, they discovered something even
stranger - a video of a drummer named Michael Carreira
playing his cowbell. Having only this video, they sought him
out and convinced him to join their band and shortly there
after began working on their first album.
Every song on Dig That Treasure is a miniature journey,
a free fantasia, a dreamy habitat built out of the minimum
materials. Sudden rhythmic gestures and frequent key changes
will leave you feeling pleasantly disoriented in a song. But
trust your tour-guides! You might feel as if you've come across
a small tribe that speaks an unstudied language, and miraculously,
find that you can speak it too! Performing live, Nedelle,
Mike and Chris watch each other intently, moving in an intuitive
way to an unheard pulse, bringing their delicately constructed
songs to new life.
Dig That Treasure is humbly inspired by the larger-than-life
emotions of West Side Story, the joyfully percussive
guitar gospel of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The
Wizard of Oz's bittersweet escapism, the other-world
sentimentality of Sun Ra's Spaceship Lullaby, and
Henry Cowell's ethereal piano string strumming.
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