Fanatic Promotion: BVRTH’s Derek Virta, former tourmate of Black Moth Super Rainbow, makes his own hip hop-inspired psych on latest single. Debut album drops April 19th.

Friday, March 22, 2019

BVRTH’s Derek Virta, former tourmate of Black Moth Super Rainbow, makes his own hip hop-inspired psych on latest single. Debut album drops April 19th.

St. Paul-based musician’s “Warden” inspired by Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, Digital Underground, Guru's “Jazzmatazz”. Hear it now at MXDWN.

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Derek Virta of BVRTH as photographed by Margeaux Claude

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MXDWN calls “Warden,” the Hip-Hop inspired new single by BVRTH, “Dynamic and entrancing. Listen here or at the link below!

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/BVRTH-Warden

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“A soundscape similar to early AIR or even a less deranged version of Black Moth Super Rainbow. It’s quite beautiful,” Treble Zine in its coverage of “Oblivian,” the first single from the upcoming debut album by BVRTH, the solo project of musician, Derek Virta. Listen here or at the link below!

[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/BVRTH-Oblivian

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About – BVRTH

While living in Italy in his late 20’s, Derek Virta of BVRTH wasn’t playing or listening to any music, he was just riding his bike all over Tuscany. By the time he moved back to Chicago six months later, he was an amateur bike racer, later winning three Minnesota (he is now based in St. Paul) state championships.

Virta refers to BVRTH music as “psych sludge,” which is not a total misnomer, but is likely overly influenced by Virta’s history playing in Graveface Records “house band” Dreamend and touring with Black Moth Super Rainbow. In actuality, Virta’s music takes that rich goo of a sound and bathes it in precise production values that make it not just rich, but wealthy.

Virta also counts Aphex Twin, Grails, Air, Stereolab, Suicide, and Low as influences on BVRTH.

The music on Virta’s self-titled debut BVRTH album (out April 19^th) is immediately impressive, especially for a guy who only jumped back into writing and recording in late 2018, handling all of the guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and programming himself.

Growing up, Virta discovered Fugazi, Bad Brains, and Unwound in high school, and also found himself getting into jazz at the same time. His love of hip-hop can be heard on BVRTH, too, especially on the latest single, “Warden,” inspired by Digable Planets, A Tribe Called Quest, and Digital Underground.

“I was pretty much a sponge,” he says.

Everything Virta soaked up gets wrung out on the eight-track BVRTH album, contributing to the instantly familiar, but intensely layered, quality of these tracks. BVRTH is the self-titled debut album by BVRTH aka Derek Virta, out via the musician’s Virtageaux Records label on April 19^th.

Virta is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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BVRTH

April 19^th, 2019

(Virtageaux Records)