Fishland by Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings
“Fishland” is the expansive debut album from Aaron Space & His Terrestrial Underlings aka composer/drummer/vocalist Elihu Knowles. Based in Portland via the Bay Area, Knowles’ jazz background deeply influences his soulful and experimental tunes. On “Fishland” he deftly blends maximalist free-form explorations alongside pop harmonic structures to coalesce into something fresh and uniquely its own. The palette is as wide as its song forms; piano, bizarro samples, lush strings, acoustic & electronic drums, other-worldly synths, saxophone, rhodes, field recordings and a plethora of undefinable sonic experiments. A debut as bold and fully-realized as “Fishland” is hard to believe and yet, here it is, beamed down from interstellar space.
Tracklist
| 1. | Aaron Space Speaks | 2:18 |
| 2. | Zellerbach | 3:54 |
| 3. | Slow (Fast) | 4:08 |
| 4. | Stome Soup | 3:50 |
| 5. | Fishland | 5:33 |
| 6. | Cat Corner | 0:28 |
| 7. | You Are (What You Eat) | 4:31 |
| 8. | Fast (Slow) | 2:44 |
| 9. | Where's Frankie? | 1:08 |
| 10. | Stone Soup / Homer | 3:21 |
Credits
released May 22, 2020
All tracks produced, arranged and performed by Elihu Knowles, with the following exceptions:
Additional production by Sam Griffin-Ortiz on Aaron Space Speaks, Fishland
Bass by Quinn Girard on Slow (Fast)
Piano by Daniel Woodruff
Guitar & Bass by Nikhil Wadhwa
Saxophone by Hayden Dekker
Initial mix by Antonello Marafioti
on Stome Soup
Final mix co-produced by Roland Kniese
Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound
Cover painting by Quinn Girard
Design by Steve Rosborough
All tracks produced, arranged and performed by Elihu Knowles, with the following exceptions:
Additional production by Sam Griffin-Ortiz on Aaron Space Speaks, Fishland
Bass by Quinn Girard on Slow (Fast)
Piano by Daniel Woodruff
Guitar & Bass by Nikhil Wadhwa
Saxophone by Hayden Dekker
Initial mix by Antonello Marafioti
on Stome Soup
Final mix co-produced by Roland Kniese
Mastered by Piper Payne at Infrasonic Sound
Cover painting by Quinn Girard
Design by Steve Rosborough
