Artist Home Page: www.mountanalog.com
Label Home Page: www.filmguerrero.com

Artist Biography:
Mount Analog's New Skin is the second full length album from Seattle based musician/producer Tucker Martine's collective. The first was released in 1997 by the Bay Area's Pehr Label and was compiled mostly of compositions Martine had made for a slow, dark Japanese dance form called Butoh. In the years since Martine completed the first Mount Analog record, he has become a highly sought after producer for his unique command of the recording environment and as a musician. New Skin was made gradually between Martine's work on records by artists as accomplished and diverse as Jim White, Modest Mouse, Laura Veirs, Land of the Loops, Bill Frisell, Sam Rivers, Jesses Sykes, John Zorn, and Lori Carson. Some of his extensive field recording work throughout Morocco, Mali, Turkey and the US also found its way into the assembly of the album. In 2002, Mount Analog was commissioned by the Northwest Film Forum to compose music for two Depression Era films, the result of which will likely be the follow up record to New Skin. The apparent ease with which Martine collaborates with such a wide range of musicians, film makers and choreographers is evident upon listening to his latest offering. Engaging and cinematic, New Skin is a thoughtfully layered work that reveals more with each subsequent listen. Shadows of classical music weave seamlessly with hints of early American folk, hypnotic rhythms and ambience, dissoloving and reappearing in a strikingly original, haunting, collage.

Mount Analog's Tucker Martine and avant-piano man Wayne Horvitz released their project Mylab on Terminus in February of 2004. Following rave reviews from Jazz Times, Billboard, a feature review on NPR's "Morning Edition", and an many others, New Skin comes at a time when the listener is ready to dive in, even deeper.

"Each track is an intriguing musical world unto itself... This is a brilliantly conceived and superbly produced debut album that indicates Martine and Horvitz's musical future will be a major thrill."
--Billboard Magazine