Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree

Stephen Vitiello and Taylor Deupree sat together for an extended weekend session, in a warm summer July in New York with the goal to capture the time and place, to a put a stamp on this moment in time. Deliberately choosing a stripped-down palette of instruments, Brush was made only with an acoustic guitar and a Vongon Polyphrase delay pedal with some overdubs of Wurlitzer electric piano and a soft, malleted ride cymbal. With microphones in the room, capturing every pedal noise, squeak and the occasional car outside the window, the duo got into the headspace of cyclic and ever-changing echo patterns, loops cascading, crashing and marking the march of time.

Brush is one of those recordings that eschews over-thinking, over-editing and digital trickery. Simplicity, personal connection, happy accidents and imperfection form a very human work teeming with tiny moments of incidental sound winding its way through unscripted gutiar picking. Brush is a small world nestled in the forest in a New York July.