FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brendon Randall-Myers [email protected] | 909 575 7445 BROOKLYN AVANT MATHEMATICAL EXCITERS MARATECK RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM “TIME IS OVER” Listen: marateck.bandcamp.com About: Marateck is an instrumental rock band that deals in opposites and extremes: minimalist vs. maximalist, consonance vs. dissonance, mechanistic vs. humanistic. The group brings together eclectic compositional voices and extensive performing backgrounds to create intense, emotional music played with obsessive, focused precision. The band is named after guitarist Jesse Kranzler's great-grandfather, Jacob Marateck, who was sentenced to death four times. In his life, Jacob stirred the pot and created dissonance in times of consonance and sought to create consonance in times of dissonance. The group’s debut album, Time Is Over, confronts time and rhythm as both immutable and elastic. Much of the music is constructed around the gradual growth or dissipation of rhythmic activity. Other moments combine erratic or free-time elements with constant pulse, either though rapid cuts between contrasting material, or superimpositions of simultaneous disparate elements. The resultant music rides the line between composed and chaotic; the sum of which becomes a sound which is, hopefully, altogether new. Time Is Over is the result of over two years of writing, rewriting, rehearsing, and touring. It was commissioned, in part, by Roulette Intermedium and the Jerome Fund for New Music. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Behold The Arctopus) at Menegroth: The Thousand Caves and features synth and keyboard performances from Jeremy Malvin (aka Chrome Sparks.) Selected Press: "Marateck don’t play thirty-second notes and they don’t quickly arpeggiate extended chords, but they ingeniously integrate polyrhythmics and polymetrics into often odd-time signature compositions...Time Is Over is an essential album for any fan of odd rock music." - Dæv Tremblay, Can This Even be Called Music?” "Marateck’s stripped-down, articulate take on math-rock yields a sense of pointillistic perfection. They're adept at both creating a feeling of space and filling it up, shifting between atmospheric passages and bursts of brutal upheaval." - Emili Earhart, Tone Madison “The sound of the band ranges from the dark sonic territory of instrumental Slint to the muscular musical flex of bands like Shellac, Lynx, and early Don Caballero...[There’s a] tension and release throughout that creates a rhythmic push and pull that treats the time and space between the notes with a feeling of fluidity that never feels forced.” - William Covert, Fecking Bahamas Promo Images: ! !.