The Nail House EP iT Boy

IT BOY

THE NAIL HOUSE EP

iT Boy is the solo electronic project of composer and instrumentalist Theo Baer. His individual approach to melodic sound is influenced heavily by an eagerness to adapt and experiment with a variety of genres. The resulting pieces reflect an eclectic upbringing in musical performance. These compositions illustrate an intimate and vulnerable narrative channeled through the manipulation of tape loops, synthesizers, keyboards, and other assorted mostly analog voices.

With The Nail House EP, iT Boy's Theo Baer crafts an emotional narrative with sophisticated textures and moody, meditative gravitas. Each track on the album built around a cassette loop, the sounds heard derive their tonality from musical cryptograms of words, phrases, and names of specific significance.

A portrait of Baer's deepest inspirations and the personal hardships that have shaped his artistic journey, the album takes its name from the Chinese term for a home whose owners refuse to relinquish space to the imposing pressures of gentrification. Over the course of a year of writing and recording this project, Baer says, "my home and work studio became a "Nail House" in its own right. I was finally evicted shortly after finishing these works." Baer's response to these circumstances is at once vulnerable and intimately powerful.

CREDITS

All music composed and performed by Theo Baer (synths, keyboards, trumpet, drum machine, tape loops)

Deities: Zachary Paul (violin)

Clew: Ed Bear (baritone saxophone, electronics), Trevor Hamilton (vocals), saxophone recorded by Alex Weston

Mixed by Todd Schied

Mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k mastering)

Tracklisting:

1. Deities (feat Zachary Paul)

2. Clew (feat Ed Bear)

3. Bake-kujira