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Burning Up The Night

by fupper

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  • Book/Magazine

    ‘Burning up the night’ is an exploration of a life in one night and the power of wanderlust.

    Two stories in one, indirect echoes of the other.

    one

    Charlie’s on a journey through a displaced version of his past that plays out under the shadow of a power cut as he wanders through the silent streets on the outskirts of an ever elusive unnamed city that he becomes irrationally determined to reach.

    two

    It starts in a shopping cart at night, at the top of a hill, the ocean displayed bellow.
    Under its surface particles dance, awaiting his arrival.

    The book is intended as a companion piece to go with the album of the same name released on Wrong Speed records in 2021.
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    Cassette + Digital Album

    Pro made cassette, J card printed on both sides, 50 copies.

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about

Words from label: I was in a band called Stanton with Fupper in the 90s and early 2000s. We met at college. He had boxes and boxes of tapes he'd recorded. It was in his blood. We bonded over the format and the bands that embraced it (from Sebadoh to the Dead C via underground hip-hop). Stanton stopped in 2003. Fupper didn't stop with recording cassette albums. I'm so pleased to be releasing this, his latest album. I hope it's the beginning of something beautiful. His music needs to be heard, his story needs to be told.

Fupper has been a steady outsider solo performer for around 30 years and ‘Burning up the night’ is number 18 in a catalogue of ever evolving home-baked albums.

Playful cinematic psychedelic jams wander over looped loose polyrhythms, peppered with distant phonetic vocals, harmonica and abstract textural sounds. Layered in analogue four track warmth, culminating in a peripatetic soundtrack that celebrates imperfection and transience and is joyfully on the verge of falling apart.

‘Burning up the night’ was recorded in duophonic lofi in a shed, in a garden, in South East London between 2018 and 2020, with the company of a large brown eleven year old dog.

You walk down the street in an ocean front town. Everything is silent, no one is around, you have the place to yourself.

It’s early evening and the sun is beginning to set on the horizon which you can just about make out between the houses.

The streets begin to elevate as you climb up the slope, at first a gentle ascend that then becomes more extreme. You rest your hands on your thighs to help propel them forwards.

You continue to climb in this fashion for a good fifteen minutes until you can to see above the houses when looking back in the direction just travelled; and as you do you witness the sun set on the horizon, and stop to watch that last flash of blue as it vanishes. Darkness perceptibly begins, and you turn away and continue to climb; determined to reach the top of the hill before evening fully sets in.

After a further twenty minutes, you find a steady rhythm and no longer feel the strain; muscles relaxed, stretched, and with enough energy to continue. The gaps between houses have become sparser, as buildings begin to appear more industrial and featureless. You become aware that the slope has begun to level off, and you notice a larger warehouse with a car park to its side; sat in isolation at the precipice of the hill.

There is a smattering of streetlights surrounding the car park, no cars in sight. The only object left standing is one shopping cart sitting in a pool of light to one side of the car park away from the warehouse.

You approach the cart taking your time, looking about to see for any other signs of life. There are none. Darkness now envelops the car park, allowing the pools of light from the streetlights to become more dominant. The cart becomes the sole object of your attention, illuminated under its own streetlight. You stand by it and look inside, empty. You put your hands on the handles and give it a gentle shove and let go, it rolls away from the source of light into darkness, you watch as your eyes adjust. You are surprised by how quickly it has become so dark. The cart eases to a stop and you step forward to join it outside of the light, then again give another gentle shove and watch it slowly travel away in the direction you just came from. You jog up behind it and do the same, dancing in and out of pools of light.

You continue in this way till standing back at the entrance to the car park with the hill back toward the town sitting directly beneath you. The town is now painted in a summer evening blue with a crescent moon sitting just to the right of the middle of the street heading down. You can’t make out any definition of shape at the bottom of the hill, but midway up, the houses are artificially drawn out by the moonlight.

You impulsively climb into the cart and sit watching with the hill directly in front, and then begin to gently rock backwards and forwards, slowly attempting to introduce this movement into the cart itself. It begins to respond as your own actions and the gravity of the hill begin to connect. Slow at first, you start to descend the slope you had just travelled.

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released July 1, 2021

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fupper London, UK

slipstream, lo-fi, wabi-sabi soundtracks.

Nostalgic guitars and found sounds wander over loose rhythms while distant vocals and harmonica's weave in and out on a journey that celebrates imperfection and transience.

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