"Gull is a masked one-man band that we once compared to Lightning Bolt and Battles, and Gleix is an electronic musician from Brooklyn who specializes in IDM, ambient, breakcore, and drill 'n' bass, and they've now collaborated on the new single... If you're familiar with both prepared piano and breakbeats, you probably have an idea of what to expect, and this song delivers. It's equal parts gorgeous and dizzying."
- BrooklynVegan
For this single, typically solo artist Gull has collaborated with artist Gleix, who provides programmed breaks, audio & video production alongside Gull’s piano playing. Gleix is one alias of George Gleixner, a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist whose musical and visual works often explore one of two extremes -- sometimes existing in a calm, meditative space separated from the outside world, and other times trapped within an ever-shifting anxiety driven collage of dark psychedelia. Growing up listening to artists on Warp, Planet Mu, and similarly rhythmically complex work, breaks found their way into much of his work, and still informs a lot of the way he approaches production. Since the pandemic hit, Gleixner had been forced to pivot away from working on live visuals at a venue in New York, and has instead been mostly building electronic instruments, weird machines, and video synthesizers.
Nathaniel Rappole’s solo project, Gull, has recorded a 7", 6 EPs, 4 full lengths, and has traveled vigorously—playing venues, on the streets, and in the wilds of Canada, United States, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, and SE Asia. Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts, and RNDM, and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Sleaford Mods, Ruby The Hatchet, Panda Bear, Mdou Moctar, Dan Deacon, and Melt Banana. Among his numerous achievements, Gull has been featured in various music-focused movies and documentaries, performed and answered questions pertaining to his travels at a TedX talk, and contributed an improvised performance to Grotesque Tables ii- Noah Wall's anagramic reimagining of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies deck of cards. In December, 2019, Gull went to Thailand and Laos to film a new doc in an ongoing series about musical ecology and culture around the world. Relentlessly hardworking, in 2020, Rapple not only released the Relative Stranger LP on Lagom Audio/Visual, but managed to pull off a covid-compliant tour (outdoor venues/masked) with Saxsquatch.
“Prepared Breaks” was released March 2021 through Lagom Audio/Visual.
Video shot by Cy Fi, visuals/editing by Gleix, illustration by Christina Gleixner.
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