Effective period / Period of releases: 2017

Members: Gregg Bielski

This is an LP collaboration with G.W. Bielski, who had lured me out of musical seclusion.
Subsequently we brought my Ritual Tension band mates on board for some of the tracks.
The Kiss is 9 tracks total and runs 35+ minutes.
And I promise you, like many kisses, it may not be completely to your liking.
In fact I think it has something to displease everyone!
It’s a lot about the spoken word, lots of poetry, which should discourage most people.
But if you’re a poetry purist, it has a lot of music too, and not very normal music either.
It’s spooky in parts, pulsing in certain sections, weird ass shit altogether.
If you’re into melody, well, there’s ‘noise,’ it’s ‘experimental.’
If you’re deeply into noise, there’s’ melody,’ and ‘singing.’
There’s even a beat in some of the songs, but not a lot, if you’re into beat.
If you like stuff well-defined, this isn’t for you, either.
If you’re a complete weirdo and into Ritual Tension, all members of the band are present, but collaborating on separate tracks, which is one reason it’s called ex->tension.
Really only elements that are unequivocally high quality and pleasing are the cover art work by my bro Andrew Nahem, the soundscapes by Gregg, the contributions by my mates Marc Sloan, Michael Shockley and Andrew, and sound mastering by Scott Anthony.
This is my first record release in more than a couple decades, and I’m kinda proud of it, and of my mates too.
FYI: we’ll be putting it up on some streaming services and doing some live RECORD RELEASE gigs in the next few months, in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and NYC. See you there. Cheers.
- Ivan Nahem Ritual Tension / ex->tension July 7th, 2017