GULL

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Gull is “best described as a drum; a living, breathing drum of flesh on fire that cries out assorted tongues of creatures past and delivers it from a single unique perspective; a communal music broadcast of blood and bile left as an offering on the altar of sound.” With the release of Relative Stranger, there are odes to dreams, to Patti Smith, to a well-traveled car, to a friend and bandmate lost. Surely, Nathaniel Rappole’s wildly interesting life experiences have also influenced the “assorted tongues” represented in the album; among them: living at a facility for endangered animals for ten years, being hired as a traveling puppeteer and technical director, as well as a mask maker for a business specializing in Furry attire, spending 2 months on a Nile houseboat in Cairo with a British woman and her Bedouin lover, working various non-profits, and performing and connecting with strangers on the streets of Mexico. With all of this under one’s belt and more, it is no surprise that this multi-instrumentalist’s solo musical project is as fascinating and multifaceted as his life.

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