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Dominic Voz listened to all music and went his own way, capturing the city in all its splendour and madness. A masterpiece.
Favorite track: Right To The City II.
"What the press release describes as 'a process of fractured storytelling' feels entirely accurate, for it is an album that embraces the dichotomous energy of its city-subject, alluring and formidable alike. And, much like the modern city, it is a work of astonishing synthesis, pulling together a broad range of well-rendered textures to produce a surprisingly complex journey to a beautiful, if occasionally overwhelming, future." – Daniel Hignell, The Quietus
"Chicago’s Dominic Voz twists countless disparate sonic threads into something unique and beguiling...Right to the City is an intoxicating blend of ambient, spoken word, classical, and deconstructed electronic music alive in a world of glitches and gorgeous landscapes." – Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
"Sound-art and social justice are at the heart of the work of Chicago-via Portland artist Dominic Voz. His Portland origins connect him with the adventurous Beacon Sound, who are co-releasing his new album Right To The City with Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records...It's a beautiful combination of early-'00s style folktronic acoustic manipulation, '90s early jazz-fusion postrock and contemporary sound-art ambient. You're gonna love it." – Peter Hollo, Utility Fog FBi radio Sidney
"Forest Brook’s cover art paints an urban picture without words, in the same manner as Voz composes a sonic snapshot, also (for the most part) without words. One can glean the message in the titles, including “Oxycodone” (which refers to the opioid crisis) and “Las Cuentas” (“The Bills”). But the largest statement is made at the very end, in the stunning 'Home'...We hope our listeners do not try to fall asleep to this record." – Richard Allen, A Closer Listen
Chicago-by-way-of-Portland musician Dominic Voz fuses ambient, classical, spoken word, and deconstructed dance music into an album of visceral beauty and heady ideas. Grappling with themes of urban contestation and dispossession, 'Right to the City' celebrates our communal fabric in the face of contemporary capitalism’s social stratification and endemic violence. The album is the first co-release between Accidental Records, and Portland’s Beacon Sound, a stalwart of gorgeous and innovative music from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The album features several collaborators, including Patricia Wolf (Balmat) and Jonathan Sielaff of Golden Retriever (Thrill Jockey).
credits
released September 30, 2022
All music composed, recorded, and mixed by Dominic Voz in Chicago, 2020-2021.
Mastered by Simon Davey at The Exchange.
Paintings by Forest Brook. Layout by ACN.
All instrumentation by Dominic Voz except:
'Oxycodone' features voice by Éléonore Rimbault
'Las Cuentas' features bass clarinet by Jonathan Sielaff, and voice by Éléonore Rimbault
'Dan Ryan' features voice by Francisco Botello
'Jackson Park' features modular synthesizer by Edgar Medina
'City Currach' features bass clarinet by Jonathan Sielaff and voice by Chelsea Sue.
'Home' features voice by Patricia Wolf
Dominic Voz is an artist and social worker based out of Chicago, IL. He has been producing experimental sounds for over a decade under various monikers.
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