We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Quiet Fill

by Ben Varian

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $8 USD  or more

     

  • Cassette + Digital Album

    High quality pro-dubbed and imprinted cassettes. Limited run of 250.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Quiet Fill via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 15 days

      $8 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Very limited CD edition. High quality CD in jewel case with full color art. Shrink-wrapped. Limited to 50.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Quiet Fill via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 15 days

      $13.50 USD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 46 Plastic Response Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 85%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Riff That Spliff (4Eva), Burgundy Lox and the Life Werse Living, Party!, Kremlin Bats, Fifth Thought, Beekeeper, Ioeoular, Tideline, and 38 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $348.45 USD or more (85% OFF)

     

1.
Bread 04:01
2.
Butter 03:07
3.
Empty Canoe 01:43
4.
5.
Not That Guy 03:18
6.
7.
Ben 02:13
8.
9.
10.
11.

about

"Another diary-novella chapter of patiently constructed song/mantras which finds Ben yet again trademarkedly ballet-ing 'tween the Chuckle, Cry, and Groove circles near the center light of our life-sized Venn diagram ~ (this intersection zone is called “Ben’s Zone”, the shape of which, called “Ben’s Textile Cone Shape”, similar to a tesseract, is invisible though conceptualize-able.

Once outlined for you by The Ben Varian Approach (Ben’s live group and also An Approach), you’ll become suddenly very aware of various formerly secret, mundane, and now fascinating details like the brand name of your toilet, the joy of pumping gas, the secret delight of pickles with peanut butter etc.

This album - the Fifth to come out in this format? is titled Quiet Fill. Aptly! - (in all the time I’ve known BV I’ve never seen a demonstration of any titular or musical IN-apt-ities (you should see this drummer bowl!)) - it includes a real sweet cast of auxiliary contributions, all helping to hold up (and down) the wanders, which are this time at times notably more solidified structurally in some deliberate upright Hollywood Nilsson / S. Dan typeaway, drifting into some Miles grooves n bite sized sound painting/doodles punctuated here n there with the soulful rhythmic riff brain dancing home orchestra hits .. stepping in the attitudinally parallel cont’d footsteps of Hosono, pop Eno, David Berman, Carole King, (I put em in my personal list of lyrical masters whether he’d like that or not!)

Modest and sidelined, Ben’s always demonstrating the longer-lasting benefits of subtle honest life-as-art living-writing over contrivance or gesture (“when it’s cold I shiver / when it’s hot I sweat / I brace myself and I don’t get wrecked”) - jamming personal moments and epiphanies together paratactically to find the song they make in-between. and like these writers listed Ben’s got a singular all-inclusive self-truth vision that doesn’t seem to have fundamentally changed in any way since he started writing / playing music however long ago and shows absolutely no signs of doing so (reminder to revisit ‘Reassurance Song for Jerry Martini’ from earlier collection Potassium .. where you’ll discover a the original use of a bundle of since revisited lyrical snippets)

I’m two degrees from the original saying of this as you’ll see, but a friend said once to me : “ accidental koan response by my friend I ask "how will you change ?" he says "by trying to stay as much the same as possible" “ - Jake Tobin

credits

released February 3, 2017

Jake Tobin - Saxophone on "Butter", -Here We Go- on "Bread"
Curt Oren - Saxophone on "How To Make Coffee"
Marcus Maurice - Violin on "Bread" and "How Long Was I Out"
Tyler Martin - Trumpet On "Ben"
Josh Saul - Lap Steel on "How Long Was I Out"
Allyson Yarrow Pierce - Vocals on "How Long Was I Out"
Anna Jeter - Vocals on "Bread" and "Butter"
Liam Hindahl - Vocals and drum engineering on "How To Make Coffee" and "Not That Guy"; Vocals on "At The Navy Base"
Kevin Christopher - Vocals and drum engineering on "How To Make Coffee" and "Not That Guy"
Everything else by BV.

Recorded 2015-2016 In various houses on various machines in Olympia, Wa.

Album art and layout by Allyson Yarrow Pierce.

Thanks to River, Liam, and Kevin for letting me use all your stuff to make the whole album.

"Don't judge me."
Thanks,
Benjamin Varian

Released on Plastic Response Records, 2017. PR45.


FACT Magazine: www.factmag.com/2016/12/21/ben-varian-album-quiet-fill-make-coffee/

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Plastic Response Records Greenville, South Carolina

Plastic Response Records is a record label based out of Greenville, SC. We specialize in releasing music we truly love and cherish.

contact / help

Contact Plastic Response Records

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Quiet Fill, you may also like: