Ky | “The Dancer“

From the album Power Is The Pharmacy 180gLP / CD / DL Releases May 12, 2023 Animation by Eric Bent Ky Brooks: Vox, Synths, Field Recordings, Guitar with Mathieu Ball: Guitar Joshua Frank: Bass Farley Miller: Drums Nick Schofield: Juno 6 Moog Grandmother Produced, recorded, and mixed by Ky Brooks at Hotel2Tango and Error 403, with additional production input from Nick Schofield and Eliot Bates. Drums recorded by Farley Miller. Album artwork by Mathieu Ball. The Dancer ___________ and the dancer makes his move to the center of the room he’s got his own special groove and he will bow in the face of time he will bow, he will bow it’s just where you hang your hat the unchangingness of that oh the chance to be together loving one another do you miss your other lover and its going way too fast and the subtle line says: make it last but you know i don’t know how i will bow, i will bow “I wrote this song while staying in the woods during the first summer of COVID. My partner at the time (the titular dancer) and I had left Montreal because it felt unsafe to be around people, and I had this feeling of life passing by so quickly, especially in the absence of normal social contact - normal early-thirties ennui accentuated by the experience of intense loneliness that characterized the early pandemic. I thought the song was meant to be an emotional ballad of some kind, and worked and re-worked it with piano and guitar but never got anywhere. Then I was messing around with my volca fm synth and came up with this looping, irregular synth sequence, and I realized it could be delivered in a more bitter way. Josh came up with the bass line after an afternoon music-listening session when we got back to Montreal, and Farley heroically found a way to play drums that work with the irregular rhythm. Finally, Mat added a guitar filigree over everything. The animated music video was created by my friend Eric Bent - we were imagining a kind of soft, pastel style like Matisse’s La Danse painting.“ – Ky