Ears Wide Open: So Many Wizards

Kevin Bronson on April 5th, 2010

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The last time we heard from So Many Wizards, mastermind Nima Kazerouni was rigging vintage television sets with LCD screens in preparation for live shows. Those shows, in 2009, as well as his “Tree” EP, established Kazerouni as a pop eclecticist of distinction, the kind of guy who maybe thought the Magnetic Fields play it too safe. So Many Wizards’ new EP, “Love Songs for When You Leave Me,” produced by the Morning Benders’ Christopher Chu, offers seven lovingly warped dashes of vintage-sounding pop that, you imagine, he might have made after his sweetheart dumped him in Aisle 3 of a secondhand musical instrument store. So Many Wizards (including bassist Warren Woodward and drummer Erik Felix) recently announced that Sacramento-based Waaga Records would be releasing the new EP early this summer. The EP is available in a hand-made book too, and … well, you just have to see that to believe it.

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