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-admin, 2024-04-18
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fiddling away on new things~
thanks for tuning in 🧡
-admin, 2024-04-18
â–¸ released on bandcamp, digital, 12"
Insulary was written, recorded, and compiled entirely remotely. the ep touches on all of our most cherished influences and weaves them into a patchwork of bass music-inspired alt-pop and sentimental, ambiguously forlorn hooks.
â–¸ released on bandcamp
produced by and written with nancy conforti in jan-feb of 2018. Winter is a brief ambient release filled with subtle tensions and odd combinations.
â–¸ released on bandcamp, cassette, digital
written and recorded from 2017 to 2018 and released on quiet time tapes. QTT8 marks a stylistic turning point for us, at which our production took on a cleaner, more intentional voice.
â–¸ released on bandcamp, website
written and recorded mostly in 2016. Inconditional is a raw and chaotic collage of plunderphonica interstiched with samples of home-recorded guitar, bass, and drums.
â–¸ released on bandcamp, website
written and recorded from 2015 to 2016. Sent from my iPad is our first full length album, originally released with an essay, sample guide, ten collages, and project files for every song.
â–¸ released on bandcamp
written and recorded in 2015 with xavier arocha. Sent from my iPhone is our first release, an unfiltered amalgam of all our favorite electronic and bass music-adjacent sounds, laced with upcut and recycled youtube samples.
bas relief is the music recording project of david mitchell and william osiecki. formed in 2015 as a result of living and running a record label together, the pair have been collaborators for nearly twenty years, cutting their teeth in knotty math rock and emo bands.
the music of bas relief is often warm and sentimental, featuring guitar woven into a textured, bass music-inspired alt pop, still channeling the spirit of their formative influences and projects past. genre keywords shift sporadically from drum & bass, to ambient, emo, and idm.
by day, david books shows for blue skies turn black, a promotion company in montreal, and william manages topshelf records. david is also a founding member of the band gulfer.
"Bas Relief have none of the trappings of some casual foray into electronic composition—their output is genuinely stellar, subtly baffling in the best way."
-Bandcamp Daily on Insulary
"... Bas Relief have created a singular, personal statement that unfolds and breathes like a living creature ..."
-Exclaim on QTT8
"A warm, blissful, and fascinating project sitting at the crossroads of ambient experimentalism and indie pop songcraft."
-The Quietus on QTT8
"... unashamed sentimentality ... is all the more moving for bearing its heart so uncompromisingly on its sleeve ..."
-The Wire on QTT8
"... Bas Relief have conjured something wholly endearing and exploratory here ..."
-Gold Flake Paint on Inconditional
February 16, 2024 @ Casa del Popolo w/ Laced, Gonima, and Corey Mastrangelo (Montreal)
September 27 2023 @ Monarch Tavern w/ Loraine James (Toronto)
November 9 2019 @ Casa del Popolo w/ Good Fuck (Montreal)
November 2 2019 @ the Bog w/ Caracara & Riverbeds (Montreal)
September 28 2019 @ Theatre Fairmount w/ God Is An Astronaut & The American Dollar (Montreal)
July 18 2019 @ Diving Bell Social Club w/ Molly Drag, Nicholas Lussier & Will Orchard (Montreal)
April 21 2019 @ Brasserie Beaubien w/ The Jem & Liz Hogg (Montreal)
March 31 2019 @ Casa del Popolo w/ Another Michael, Sasha Slug & Manila (Montreal)
December 14 2018 @ The Bakery w/ The Emotron, TIME, Non Grata & Ginko (Atlanta)
December 4 2018 @ Bar le “Ritz” PDB w/ Mutual Benefit, Gabi (Montreal)
November 15 2018 @ la Vitrola w/ Peaer, Lockimara & Massolit (Montreal)
November 3 2018 @ Diving Bell Social Club w/ Syngia & Holobody (Montreal)
July 17 2018 @ Casa del Popolo w/ Mother Evergreen, The Most, Laps & Mia Verko (Montreal)
June 23 2018 @ Casa del Popolo w/ Pink Navel & H A U N T E R (Montreal)
April 1 2018 @ la Vitrola w/ Fog Lake & Town House (Montreal)
December 16 2017 @ Atomic Cafe w/ Milanku, Dianacrawls, Apes, Lourié & S’cuse (Montreal)
November 10 2017 @ la Plante w/ Friendship & Ouzkxqlzn (Montreal)
November 5 2017 @ Bar le “Ritz” PDB w/ Joni Void, Brandon, Still Kicking & MPSO (Montreal)
October 18 2017 @ Brasserie Beaubien w/ Jack Moves & Also Also Also (Montreal)
September 30 2017 @ la Plante w/ Sorry Girls, MPSO & Casual Decay (Montreal)
July 12 2017 @ la Vitrola w/ Vasudeva & Adjy (Montreal)
May 31 2017 @ Silver Door w/ Lily and Horn Horse (Montreal)
May 12 2017 @ Bar Robo w/ Emperor X & Animal Flag (Ottawa)
May 11 2017 @ la Vitrola w/ Emperor X, Animal Flag, Soul Glo & La Luna (Montreal)
May 10 2017 @ le Knock-Out w/ Emperor X & Animal Flag (Quebec City)
April 23 2017 @ Poisson Noir w/ Sea Beau, Wei Zhongle, Yao Guai Cave & Lyndsie Alguire (Montreal)
March 28 2017 @ la Vitrola w/ Half Waif & Bambi Lou (Montreal)
January 12 2017 @ Poisson Noir w/ Hartsfield Jackson, Girl Arm & Choroy Choroy (Montreal)
November 18 2016 @ la Plante w/ Gonima, Fade Runner, Fengir & CMD music (Montreal)
August 3 2016 @ la Sala Rossa w/ Sly Why, R. Ariel & Raveen (Montreal)
July 4 2016 @ Psychic City w/ Corridor, No Friends & Loess (Montreal)
June 17 2016 @ Madame Wood w/ Happymovie & Xavier LeĂłn (Montreal)
May 7 2016 @ la Plante w/ Golden Python, Valeda, Common Holly & Mon Doux Saigneur (Montreal)
December 8 2015 @ le Divan Orange w/ Arms and Sleepers, smileswithteeth & Happymovie (Montreal)