For Strings by Cut A Lonely Figure

Cut A Lonely Figure is the solo project of Blue Tapes founder David McNamee, who also makes music under the name Soft-Bodied Humans.

Whereas Soft-Bodied Humans plays with noisy, obnoxious, psychedelic grime and industrial textures, Cut A Lonely Figure is minimal, meditative, longform and largely acoustic music.

For Strings is a 30+ minute piece composed and performed by McNamee with cellist Klara Schumann (FAUZIA) and violinist Maria Marzaioli (Porridge Radio, Slum of Legs).

Warm and soulful strings slide and weave around a gently pulsing rhythmic skeleton on the main piece, while the same structure is pared back to its bare bones on the colder, stranger companion piece, Faux Strings.


Praise for Cut A Lonely Figure:

"The whole work isn’t that long but it feels immense, transporting the listener out beyond our earthly home, into the heavens. I recently saw an installation projecting galaxies onto the inside of a cathedral, and I can’t help but think this would have been the ideal soundtrack for the experience." - A Closer Listen

Various music projects by David McNamee

Soft-Bodied Humans: Eclectic beats & bass project

Cut A Lonely Figure: Deep listening project - largely acoustic instruments with longform structures

The Blue Tapes House Band - collaborative project with assorted members of the Blue Tapes label roster

Releases on Gang of Ducks, Phantom Limb, The Tapeworm, Bloxham Tapes, Blue Tapes, Fractal Meat Cuts etc