The Snow-Rat Audio Tape

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1.	Snow-Rat Finds A Mirror 02:01	buy track
2.	A Nervous Snow-Rat Thinks On His Feet 02:11	buy track
3.	Snow-Rat Crosses The Street 02:25	buy track
4.	All The Rats At The Bar Looked Tired 01:37	buy track
5.	Snow-Rat Finds Another Mirror 03:21 video	buy track
6.	Snow-Rat Starts To Realize He Might Be Special 04:15	buy track
7.	Snow-Rat's Tail Is Growing Stronger 03:56	buy track
8.	Snow-Rat Takes In The Spring Rain 01:48	buy track
9.	Rat Dances From The Old Days 05:36	buy track
10.	Snow-Rat's Increasing Isolation and Worry 05:35	buy track
11.	The Most Beautiful Funeral A Rat Has Ever... (featuring Lifeguard) 02:22	buy track

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Venezuelan-American musician & Chicagoan Carlos Lowenstein started his instrumental home-studio project ‘Sun Picture’ last year in the middle of the pandemic, recording and releasing two albums; ‘Hello and Walk Together’ & ‘So Many Little Rooms’. Lowenstein makes his TiM debut here with his newest, “The Snow-Rat Audio Tape” a concept album evolved from a chance encounter last winter. Lowenstein explains; “Sometime in the middle of last winter, I was walking down a Chicago alley when I was stopped by a sad looking rat, slowly trudging through the snow towards the icy garbage. It had been a year of anxiety, disease and death and something about this animal’s demeanor seemed to fit the moment. Looking back, I’m not even certain this encounter even happened. I might have conjured it as I worked on this repetitive music. But one way or another, Snow-Rat became my muse.” ‘The Snow-Rat Audio Tape’ certainly conveys an aura of bleakness & winter, with Lowenstein’s greyscale’d and repetetive melodies (sometimes created by guitars, synths, or ambient sounds) coming into focus & then withering away, with the marrow sucked dry by forces internal and external. The perfect soundtrack to the forthcoming snowpocalypse.

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released November 5, 2021

All instruments / recording by Carlos Lowenstein
Mastered by Scott Craggs

Special thanks to Lifeguard for performing at Snow-Rat's funeral.
It was a beautiful night.

Also big thanks to Brian Case.

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Sun Picture Chicago, Illinois

Sun Picture is the instrumental home studio project of Venezuelan-American musician Carlos Lowenstein.

Using everything from modular synths to live instruments, Sun Picture blends elements of ambient, dub, spiritual jazz, and Latin-American beats. This mix is approached with a restraint suggestive of krautrock’s detached stance. ... more

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