Total Blue (Vinyl LP)

If you like your music to be the musical equivalent of a Windows 95 screensaver, well do we have a new album for you! Total Blue is the Los Angeles-based trio of Nicky Benedek, Alex Talan, and Anthony Calonico, musical collaborators for over a decade, but newly united under this banner. Armed with “digital synths, Akai EVI wind synthesiser, fretless bass, and guitar”, they’re ready to soundtrack your next boardroom meeting, a round of SimCity 2000, or even an episode “Bob Ross-but-he’s-an-android”. - Flying Out

Music From Memory is excited to introduce ‘Total Blue’, the Los Angeles-based trio of Nicky Benedek, Alex Talan, and Anthony Calonico. Despite collaborating for over a decade, ‘Total Blue’ represents a new chapter in their artistic journey together as a trio.

Embracing chance, inviting the unknown, and guided by a spirit of sheer play and exploration, ‘Total Blue’ was driven by a desire to ‘touch the beyond’ in pursuit of an elusive vibe the three had been chasing for years.

Alex, Nick, and Anthony envision ‘Total Blue’ as the all-encompassing full picture, a place where the real and the imaginary begin to blur; a destination reached not through escapism but by expanding one's perspective; a widened scope of vision where personality both shines and disintegrates.

Across the album, their mission statement is expertly achieved with subtlety and delicate human touch; painting with a lush palette of digital synths, Akai EVI wind synthesizer, fretless bass, and guitar, the trio masterfully balance texture and color, evoking wide expansive vistas that stretch from Los Angeles right out to the furthest reaches of sky and sea. This is ‘Total Blue’ - a place of time and timelessness where echoes of history and tradition merge with rootless inhuman sonics.

Tracklist

The Path
Corsair
Heart Of The World 
Jaguarundi
 Dorian Dial 
Chaparral
Bone Chalk 
Pearl Plains