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Is This Anything

by See Jazz

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1.
Hymn 02:20
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2.
Dance With Me 02:45
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3.
1982 05:19
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4.
Sidney Pointier Smile 03:24
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5.
Heaven Is Real 02:25
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6.
Artificial Love 03:30
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7.
Free City Rhythms 03:28
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8.
Press Play To Start a Revolution in Your Head 02:40
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9.
American Possibilities 04:07
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10.
Laika 03:38
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11.
Weird September 08:08
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about

See Jazz is a recording project by Aaron Pfannebecker. The project uses drum machines and synthesizers as collaborators and templates for warped bedroom collage pop guitars and earworm vocals.

See Jazz exists makes songs that are textures on top of textures. Inspired by outsider art and living in space and a world all its own, See Jazz is music for outsiders.

Is This Anything? was recorded in NYC in Queens and Western Massachusetts before and after the pandemic but not during. “I couldn’t make anything during that time,” Pfannebecker says. “I lost someone close to me, and the world was so out of whack. I went into a cacoon.”

Lyrically, See Jazz sings about America now and what it feels like to be lost in it. See Jazz sounds like what would happen if Nick Nicely, New Order, and The The had a baby.

Adam Langellotti from Kurt Vile and the Violators plays bass on all songs but one. Jed Smith from My Teenage Stride and Jeanines plays bass on Dance With Me. Zara Bode from Sweetback Sisters, whose grandfather was Vaughn Bode (the Beastie Boys have a line about him, “I’m a Cheech Wizard like Vaughn Bode) sings on 1982 and background vocals on Heaven Is.

See Jazz is for uncool people everywhere scattered to the edges of contemporary popularity contests. Is This Anything? is a patchwork quilt of melodies made to make your ears dance and help make you new friends.

Aaron Pfannebecker has played in Drawing Boards and Sisters and been covered in Stereogum, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, NYLON Magazine, Brooklyn Vegan, and played shows with Atlas Sound, Dum Dum Girls, No Age, A Place to Bury Strangers, Jeff The Brotherhood and many more.

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released November 10, 2023

Aaron Pfannebecker (Drawing Boards, Sisters) - vocals, guitars, synthesizers, drum machines, Omnichord
Adam Langellotti (Kurt Vile) - bass
Zara Bode (Sweetback Sisters) - vocals
Jed Smith (My Teenage Stride, Jeanines) - bass

Recorded and mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Parquet Courts, anything Dinosaur Jr./Sonic Youth related)

Mastered by Carl Saff

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