VIDEO OF THE DAY — JASON URICK: “AGELESS ISMS”

Portland experimental musician Jason Urick has taken listeners on sonic adventures into extraterrestrial space and beyond on such albums as 2009’s Husbands, 2010’s Fussing & Fighting, and 2011’s Title King collaboration with Cex, citing such wide-ranging influences as John Cassavetes, Pavement, Marco Ferreri, Sebadoh, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, the Bee Gees, and Jah Shaka. On his latest album, I Love You (Thrill Jockey, January 2012), he continues his exploration of ambient sound on five tracks ultimately put together on his laptop. “I began to use the phrase ‘I Love You’ as a mantra of sorts while working on this material,” Urick says about the album. “Running the phrase over and over in my head until the words started to break down and render the phrase foreign again. In these meditations I became more at peace with the music making process and more unsure/unfamiliar with it at the same time. This feeling spilled over into my understanding of myself going from feeling very in tune in body and mind to completely adrift in a large universe, again in very rapid succession until all that remained was a vibration.” Consisting of “Don’t Digital,” “Ageless Isms,” “The Crying Song,” “Syndromes,” and the title track, the album imbues the technology with an emotional resonance that results in hypnotic multilayered sonic excursions with a heartbeat all their own. Urick will be featuring songs from the new album at Cameo Gallery on May 8 on a bill with Doe Paoro, Future Shuttle, and a DJ set by Ital.