Friday, April 19, 2019

BVRTH drops debut album today, along with new single feat. vocals by The Nurse. RIYL: Aphex Twin, Air, Stereolab, Digable Planets.

St. Paul-based musician, Derek Virta, is former member of Graveface “house band” Dreamend, tourmate of Black Moth Super Rainbow.

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Derek Virta of BVRTH as photographed by Margeaux Claude

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“You Walk Alone” is the third single taken from the debut self-titled album by BVRTH, out now. Featuring vocals by The Nurse (Sarah Koteles), she is also the co-writer, co-producer, and engineer behind the track.

BVRTH’s Derek Virta says, “This collaboration is years in the making. Sarah and I lived in Chicago and were introduced when I was touring with Dreamend.  She was into dance music, something I didn't know anything about, but she made me a mix tape that I loved, and we stayed in touch. All of the layering and patterns, are created from scratch, and at the time I wrote this, I was feeling a Battles / Adult vibe.”

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BVRTH – In The Press

“Dynamic and entrancing.” — MXDWN

“A soundscape similar to early AIR or even a less deranged version of Black Moth Super Rainbow. It’s quite beautiful.” — Treble

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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 today) 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 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 today.

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

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BVRTH
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Out Now
(Virtageaux Records)

Streaming Link:


Track Listing:


01. Oblivian (STREAM | MP3)
02. Warden (STREAM | MP3)
03. You Walk Alone (feat. The Nurse) (STREAM | MP3)
04. Stonesend
05. Iljo
06. Geauxst
07. BRBDB
08. Eye Gouger

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BVRTH - Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion


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