Prefuse 73 (aka Guillermo Scott Herren) is releasing a new album with a twist. The CD/Vinyl will be a double album, while the digital download will only include disc 1. The first disc is beat-based while the second disc is “a collection of modern classical compositions composed and played by Herren using mostly cello, flute, piano, bass, and clarinet.”

The album is titled Preparations and disc 2 is titled Ensembles:

Preparations Tracklist

01 From the East Intro
02 Beaten Thursday
03 Aborted Hugs
04 The Class of 73 Bells [ft. School of Seven Bells]
05 Girlfriend Boyfriend
06 Smoking Red [ft. John Stanier - drummer for Battles]
07 Prog Version Slowly Crushed
08 Noreaster Cheer
09 Let It Ring
10 17 Seconds Interlude [ft. Tobias Lilja]
11 I Knew You Were Gonna Go
12 Pomade Suite Version One
13 Spaced + Dissonant
14 Preparation Outro Version

Ensembles Tracklist

01 For Her Non-Place
02 Preparation One
03 Thorough Light
04 Spacious and Dissonant Part 2
05 Pitu
06 Preparation Two
07 Over Ensembles
08 The Last
09 Sunbeamstress
10 Humidity Interlude
11 The Ground We Lift
12 Preparation Three
13 Let It Ring Ensembles
14 Out We Will Go
15 Prepared as It Was

In addition to these 2 discs, the first single off the album, “Class of 73 Bells,” will be released as a limited edition vinyl by Warp Records on September 17th. The single features the School of Seven Bells, which according to pitchf*#k is:

the new band of ex-Secret Machine Benjamin Curtis, and ex-On!Air!Library twin sisters Claudia and Alejandra Deheza. (Claudia has also worked with Herren under his Savath & Savalas guise and as A Cloud Mireya.)

“Class of 73 Bells” the single:

A1 The Class of 73 Bells [ft. School of Seven Bells]
A2 Smoking Red [ft. John Stanier - drummer for Battles]
B1 En Blanco (A Prefuse/Epstein Production)
B2 The Classical Sounds of 73 Bells

Finally, Prefuse 73 will be heading out on a european tour after their one US show in Boulder Colorado:

09-07 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater - with Telefon Tel Aviv
09-20 London, Ontario - LOLA Festival
10-14 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan’s
10-15 Leeds, England - Room 237
10-16 London, England - Scala
10-17 Manchester, England - Apollo 2 - with label mates Battles
10-18 Brighton, England - TBA
10-19 Reims, France - Electricity Festival
10-20 Paris, France - Le Divan du Monde
10-21 Brussels, Belgium - VK
10-23 Fribourg, Switzerland - Fri-Son
10-24 Geneva, Switzerland - L’Usine
10-25 Munich, Germany - TBA
11-25 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church Sanctuary

Prefuse 73 Links

For a little more background, plus an interview with Guillermo Scott Herren from March 2007, check the pitchf*#k post.
Prefuse 73 at home
Warp Records

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