Soft Cat Announces New Record

Baltimore’s Soft Cat is set to release their debut record with Friends Records in Fall 2010

Raised in Texas, Soft Cat’s Neil Sanzgiri combines as many people and resources as he can together to create a unique blend of influences and arrangements ranging from folk pop to classical baroque interpretations on the singer/songwriter genre. Soft Cat’s music exists as the space between when the sun rises and the darkness that precedes it.

As lead singer of the Dallas based psych-pop band Voot Cha Index (who recorded with The Polyphonic Spree bassist Mark Pirro) while still in high school, Neil Sanzgiri relocated to Baltimore, MD to attend college while still keeping contact with many of the Texas affiliations he had. After returning in summer of 2008, he formed Talking Tiger Mountain with members of Sleep Whale, Sunnybrook, Matthew & The Arrogant Sea, and a number of other Denton friends, creating monumental folk rock tales. Soft Cat retains many of the production styles learned from both of these bands and integrates it in his own view of what he calls “the sound of everything that never happened” from his favorite songs.

Starting as a class project, Soft Cat developed into a project featuring various Baltimore musicians from acts like Small Sur, Weekends, and many more to create a passive understanding of the intricate wholeness existing in natural phenomenon of everyday. The songs lie somewhere between Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and The Microphone’s The Glow Pt. 2.

Wild Space is Soft Cat’s first album released through Friends Records. The ideas in this album are a collection of themes and explanations growing to a symphonic conclusion. As Neil explains it, “Any concentration of wilderness, growth, or life contained in a surviving ecosystem located in an urban setting is known as Wild Space. It is a non-domesticated area existing and dwelling as arcane emptiness. Wild Space creates fear from the unknown yet gives context to conformability. Organisms grow and cultivate while going unnoticed. Wild Space serves as the in between spaces in our lives.”

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Wildspace Tracklist:

1. Silver Babies Sun
2. Dark When it Should Be Violet Hour
3. It Won’t Be Long
4. Mourn in the Night
5. Wildspace
6. When My Brother Reaches Me
7. Five Months Waiting
8. Blackbird