A Typical Night in the Pit

by Nick Malkin

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1.	Intro / Exchange 02:06	buy track
2.	Sixth Street Conversation 02:09	buy track
3.	Through a Rain-Streaked Window 05:55	buy track
4.	Secondhand Identity 01:56	buy track
5.	Into the Light '93 02:30	buy track
6.	Some KJAZZ Eternity 02:11	buy track
7.	Estacionamiento Privado 02:37	buy track
8.	Perfect Terminal 03:42	buy track
9.	View From Two Perspectives 09:26	buy track

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“A Typical Night in the Pit” is a collection of new music by Los Angeles’ Nick Malkin. It is an album that finds the artist absorbed in the density and chaos of the urban complex. It is unquestionably an “LA album,” but not the LA of hi-fi listening bars and twinkling, Instagram-ready New Age. Rather, Malkin navigates something more akin to the LA found in the films of Robert Altman or Alan Rudolph— overheated, tense, hazy, frayed— with blue-lit, nocturnal compositions that at times recall Mark Isham’s noirish scores for those subversive (anti-)Hollywood pictures. Enlisting a revolving cast of LA experimentalists, Malkin has assembled a record that is as chameleonic as it is cohesive, offering up vignettes ranging from the skewed MIDI-jazz of “Sixth Street Conversation” to the skulking menace of “Estacionamiento Privado,” before giving way to the wide-eyed, cloudy closer “View From Two Perspectives.

With contributions from:

Maxwell Sterling on double bass
Jon-Kyle Mohr on drums
Patrick Shiroishi on saxophone
Brian Allen Simon on saxophone
Clementine Nixon on vocals
M.Geddes Gengras on synthesizer
Todd Simon on trumpet

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released January 17, 2020

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