Perfection by Bobby August

Artist: Bobby August
Album: Perfection
Format: Tape / Digital
Cat.No: VCR007
Release Date: 10th September 2021

I UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR WORDS VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfcfbgup7P4

PLASTIC WICKER CHAIRS VIDEO https://youtu.be/mb32WQ0IZz8

Vitamin Concept is delighted to present the debut release from the enigmatic Bobby August. Bobby August aka Paul Jones aka Bobby Gardener has led many lives; Bradford born, New Zealand reared, adept of the European landmass & now Vilnius based. Co-founder of Stolen Recordings, mastering engineer for Berlin label Das Andere Selbst, in bands as diverse as Cindytalk, Marimba & Cabbages, cook, revolutionary, journeyer here Bobby steps out on his own, tilting at Perfection...An almanac of travelling unpolished instrumental beauty.

"Haunting, the hunter guitar, like liquid, liquid-like guitar. Bobby's fingers walk on the horizontal line.. and the melody through an old iPhone with no charger is a universe of quiet and permanent determination. Each string on his guitar is a separate instrument in his arrangement as he creates an architectural space with just his hands and sometime his voice." Koichi Yamanoha (Grimm Grimm)

And here's Bobby on it all... "Perfection was recorded on a phone given to me by my good friend Kat, an old Iphone 4, thank u Kat. This collection was recorded in Berlin and then on a trip to see my family in New Zealand… I had left NZ at 17 and returned when I was 48 .. I really don't know how that happened ...but it did. In that time I had a few different lives and loves... and this continues..

I'm now sitting in a living room in Vilnius listening to the radio. I just had some fantastic cheese.. Very sour with caraway seeds and a bread of nettles and caraway, made for me by a friend Modesta... She has a dog called Afrika .. Afrika came with a warning that seems unfounded... She is beautiful dog and so friendly .. Yes she gets excited ..but don't we all?

Anyways I'm now a year away from NZ I guess in 30 years time I'm due another visit .. I wonder what awaits me then? A predominantly white land owning upper class with a nation of surfs toiling on their behalf ? Or a free nation of rational thinking equals? Let's see, maybe 30 years can make a difference?

I keep a musical diary of sorts.. Recording on the phone little ideas or melodies ..I often send these to mates like a wee snap shot or way to just to get in touch and say hello. Often friends appear in these song's either as thoughts or background bumps… or in the case of Jinsu getting a feature in his own right .. Long live the revolution!

These recordings where never intended for release .. but an offer came and was graciously excepted ..I was super happy that Sefa and Oliver wanted to release them... As to me these songs really do reflect a very odd year .. I would like to use this opportunity to say thank you to everyone and everything.

Let's give it up for perfection..."

Bobby August, 28 April 2021

Tracklist

1.	Plastic wicker chairs	2:40

2.	Then we start naming things	3:09

3.	Once named we meet limitations	2:46

4.	Perfection is lost	2:58

5.	What was readily available and free to interpret	2:22

6.	Now has staged references	2:51

7.	Perfection is nameless	2:04

8.	Unspeakable none thinking	3:13

9.	Daydreams	2:09

10.	I understand the need for words	4:01

11.	But I'm not sure they help when attempting to leave things as they are	3:14

12.	Let's imagine what we want [feat. Jinsu]	2:16

13.	imbue songs with nothing	1:54

14.	For me today was plastic wicker chairs and eggs	3:29

15.	Tomorrow I imagine will be different	2:13

16.	Don't name your songs	2:36

Credits

released September 10, 2021

Written, recorded & mastered by Bobby August.
Design by Oliver Marchant

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