Sound People is a collaboration between Strategy and Gulls. Though I’m not familiar with Gulls, I think Strategy is a tremendous talent. The music name for Paul Dickow of Portland (city your musician friends are most likely to insist they’re moving to eventually), Strategy is an organic electronic experimentalist, using dub techniques and tape loops to construct a constantly mutating narcotic haze. Sounds like pretentious navel gazery the way I describe it, but it is actually very groovy. His stellar Future Rock ablum, released on Kranky, made my top ten back in 2007. That was constructed from 4 years of various band rehearsals and jams cut up, effected, and transmuted into a fine collection of hazy psychedelic jive. You can find out all sorts of things about this guy and his friends at his Community Library site. The new collaboration, Sound People, is described as such:

FRESH off the decks is a brand new collaboration betwixt Paul Dickow (Strategy) and Jesse Munro Johnson (Gulls).
“This recording is drawn from multiple sessions of sonic exploration. The focus of these sessions was on live processed percussion (Dickow), and live processed trumpet, mbira, and bells (Johnson). Resulting in lush and vivid sonic maps full of topography and vibrance. Perfect as an early morning wake up soundtrack, pop it up in your headphones and lay in the grass.
Improvised completely fresh and fueled by countless cups of high powered exotic teas, this represents the best sounds from the first sessions. More to come”

The new album tea time can be found for free here.

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