Album Notes

Parts paen to the SST heroes of yore,free improvisation,simple melody,complexity,dynamism and space,
The bass playing of Richard Sims has been reaching people on the fringes of the musical underground for nearly two decades.
Most recently with Albuquerque punk/math heroes "The Friendly" Overcoat/Touch and Go artists "Boas" & Asian A Go Go Instrumentalists "Red Chamber"


...from the bitter winter,his newest release,not only finds
Sims in a new location(Chicago)but also in a far less frenetic and agressive frame of mind.

Sublimely accompanied by Jacob Smith on keyboards,Graeme Gibson(Disappears,Fruit Bats) handling both production and percussive chores and
featuring an appearance by Doug McCombs of Tortoise
...from the bitter winter is 62 minutes and 10 seconds of
transcendent soul music,guided by Sims' lush,introspective
and profoundly moving bass playing.

Richard Sims is currently in the studio working on his new record. Tentatively titled "Skeleton Larks and Wolves of Penumbra" it is due out this year.Though in some ways drawing from the same spectral palette as ...FTBW, "Skeleton" reaches into new sonic territory, drawing the listener ever deeper into Sims' always shifting journey...