Stephen Vitiello with Brendan Canty and Hahn Rowe, June 2025 release
https://balmat.bandcamp.com/album/second
“Second plays like a post-rock tasting menu prepared by three James Beard award-winning chefs… you can hear the many decades of experience in each walloping snare hit and elegant ripple of feedback. It’s the sound of restless expertise” Hearing Things, June 10, 2025
“Bridging jazz, post-punk, and kosmische, Second conjures an exciting topography.” “The Best Ambient Music on Bandcamp, Bandcamp Daily, June 2025
“And when Rowe takes the lead on the closer, “Mrphgtrs1,” it creates some of the most beautiful drone since The Velvet Underground.” HHVMag
“Second that underscores its true craft – plain damn elegant.” First Impressions 055
Between is a rotating collective of artists that began in 2012 one night at old ryokan in Kyoto, Japan. It is collaboration that brings artists, stories and memories together acutely distilling the essence of 12k’s mission and aesthetics into one project.
Taylor Deupree: Synthesizers, Electronics, Xylophone, Seashells
Stephen Vitiello: Guitars, Banjo, Synthesizers, Field Recording
Corey Fuller: Rhodes, Upright Piano, Prophet-5
Marcus Fischer: Drums, Bass, Vibraphone, Bamboo Wisk
Federico Durand: Modular Synth, Small Objects, Field Recording
Michael Grigoni: Lap Steel Guitar, Dobro
Molly Berg: Clarinet, Voice
Available from 12k
Recent EP: First with Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe from Longform Editions
Installation documentation from Traversées \ Kimsooja : Stephen Vitiello
Video, Winds of Peters Mountain, Stephen Vitiello and Matt Flowers, 2018