Anchor's got aweigh... and now Blau's ship shatters as it strikes land! This is the land that production forgot, the place where Nature is central and permeating out from the core. The sense that the sound matters never arrived, and here to stay in its place is the process a song happens and then leaves out into the world. Did Nature leave? No. Nature got loose. And now that these songs have clearly gone into the world -- are they left to run around naked? Yes. Nature's Got Away made it to tape fresh off of a tour in Spring 2007 where Karl Blau traveled to Japan and performed with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats, and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records, Old Time Relijun). Written on the road and recorded at "home" at the beloved Dub Narcotic Studio by Karl Blau accompanied mainly by: Olympians-- Peter Dolan (Chin-Up Merryweather), and members of LAKE: Lindsay Shief, Eli Moore, Mark Morrison, Micah Davis-Wheeler, Andrew Dorsett, and Ashley Eriksson; with also Portland folks Nate Ashley and Greg Olin (Graves); and Seattle's Steve Moore (Earth, Sunn0)))))).

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Karl Blau to kompozytor, producent, wokalista, songwriter i mulitiinstrumentalista z Waszyngtonu obecny na scenie niezaleznej od kilkunastu lat.
Jego muzyka stanowi tygiel wszystkich gatunków pojawiajacych się na świecie w ostatnim półwieczu. Znaleźć w niej można elementy folk, dub, R&B, bossa nova, grunge, hip hop, drone, worldbeat, a także soul i rocksteady.

Blau był zaangażowany w kilka projektow, m.in. Brothers Blau, Captain Fathom czy Your Heart Breaks. Intensywnie kolaborowal z muzykami z Waszyngtonu. Wśród nich warto wymienić zwłaszcza Phila Elvruma (The Microphones, Mount Eerie), do którego często jest porównywany.

Wraz z Elverumem i wokalistą i gitarzystą Bretem Lunsfordem od 1997 współtworzy indie rockowy projekt D+.

Blau to niezwykle płodny artysta. Od czasu debiutanckiego krążka "Doin' Things the Way They Happen (Knw-Yr-Own 1997) wydał kilkanaście albumów. Ostatnio nakładem K Records ukazala się plyta “Nature’s Got Away” (2008). Od płyty "Tape" z 2003 udostępnia swoje utwory za pośrednictewm serwisu subskrypcyjnego Kelp Lunacy.

Anchor's got aweigh... and now Blau's ship shatters as it strikes land! This is the land that production forgot, the place where Nature is central and permeating out from the core. The sense that the sound matters never arrived, and here to stay in its place is the process a song happens and then leaves out into the world. Did Nature leave? No. Nature got loose. And now that these songs have clearly gone into the world -- are they left to run around naked? Yes. Nature's Got Away made it to tape fresh off of a tour in Spring 2007 where Karl Blau traveled to Japan and performed with some of his biggest musical influences: namely Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz), Reiko Kudo, Nikaido Kazumi, the Moools, Tennis Coats, and Arrington DeDionyso (of K Records,.......
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