Out and About, by Staubitz and Waterhouse

Out and About

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1.	Morning Chorus 03:16	buy track
2.	Heart of the Mart 02:35	buy track
3.	Vocaloids 02:20	buy track
4.	No Recess 01:11	buy track
5.	Hot Stamper 03:39	buy track
6.	Dale 00:33	buy track
7.	Jazz Conversation 04:13	buy track
8.	Night Sweats 02:21	buy track
9.	I Am Sitting in a Car 02:04	buy track
10.	No Coffee at the Rodeway 01:33	buy track
11.	Live at Tubby's 10:11	buy track
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"How are we to speak of these 'common things', how to track them down rather, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in
which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are."

- Georges Perec, The Infra-Ordinary

Get ready, get ready - Staubitz and Waterhouse are back with a new record!

Following 2022's full-length debut Common Metals, a mini-album for Regional Bears, and a collaborative EP with Seamus Williams for Chocolate Monk, the Luc and Brunhild Ferrari of the Ocean State have returned to Gertrude Tapes with Out and About, their most engaging and kaleidoscopic album to date. Based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution and Wendy Carlos, Staubitz and Waterhouse continue to document their lives with diligence, sensitivity, and humor.

Side A, recorded over two years, distills dozens of discrete sites into an imaginary "average day" for the duo. The album begins at dawn on their stoop, proceeds to an early morning stroll at an outdoor antique market, makes a pit stop at a James Turrell Skyspace and a hotel
pool - all before a chaotic lunch at a woefully beleaguered charter school. Moving on, through, and out of the halls of education, "Hot Stamper" is a montage of the many sources of technophony we encounter every day: while grocery shopping, at a car wash, inside mill buildings, or in the bathroom at a furniture store. Later that evening our intrepid aural explorers find themselves at a lively "Pitbull" concert at "Great Woods," where the two nearly met three decades prior. Par for the course, they stop in for a nightcap at the Lafayette on their way home, where they overhear a scintillating conversation about all things jazz. The night concludes with blissful slumber, despite the berimbau-esque protestations of a furious bug trapped under a bucket.

Side B is a travelogue recorded over one weekend in early 2022, which documents their journey to the Hudson Valley in New York to play on the patio of the legendary Tubby's. The tone of this side is more loose and sprawling, and demonstrates that for Staubitz and Waterhouse there is no difference between living and performing - it exists on a continuum. You can hear it in the sounds of Kingston that bleed in around the edges, and in the tapes of insane birds that run
throughout their set, muddying the boundaries between what is real and what is artifice. The album concludes with a trip to the cavernous confines of Dia Beacon, where ghostly apparitions flicker in and out of focus and float throughout the space.

Let me tell you, these guys are always out looking for action.

- Barrett Clark, Record Producer

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released June 2, 2023

Side A recorded 2020 - 2022 in New England and Niagara Falls
Side B recorded May 7 and 8, 2022 in the Hudson Valley
All recordings were made with Mary's Galaxy S9 and Russ' iPhone
SE, except for "Live at Tubby's" which was recorded on a Zoom H4n
Mixed and edited by Russ using no additional effects
Cover art and newsletter by Mary
Mastered by Josh Stevenson at Otic Sound

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