Patch Notes: Brijean

Brijean is a collaborative project featuring DJ and percussionist Brijean Murphy (whose talents have seen her work with indie bands Poolside, Toro Y Moi and U. S. Girls) and multiinstrumentalist and producer Doug Stuart. Together, the Oaklandbased duo make dreamy pop music that draws on disco, house and jazz. Last month, the duo released Feelings on Ghostly International, an album described as dance music for the mind, body, and soul. To mark its release, Brijean recorded a improvised session for this weeks episode of Patch Notes at their intimate home studio, making use of gear such as the Korg Minilogue, Roland TR8S and Teenage Engineering OP1. We decided it would be fun to improvise for this video since we dont normally focus on that in our live performances, the duo says. We tried to map out as little as possible, but planned the general arc of the improvisation; starting out of time and eventually bringing in the tempo with the drum machine that Brijean was programming. We had also agreed upo