microphones in the trees: calypso borealis

Thursday, October 31, 2013

calypso borealis


"the debut release by Calypso Borealis starts off in a foggy, “half-awake in a dew-dappled garden” Sunroof!/early Hototogisu type zone, with hesitant clean guitar noodles, childlike xylophone tinkles, free folky percussion patters and brittle waves of distortion doing their thing over a reedy organ drone. about halfway through the piece (which is entitled “Epoung Nou”) a different, slightly darker drone hovers in and juxtaposes itself against the seemingly oblivious xylophone, while splashing cymbals and wah-ing synths battle for your attention somewhere off in the distance..." tape sauce

me da mucha pena cuando los sellos empiezan a desaparecer poco a poco. Existencial Cloth nos regaló en el pasado cintas preciosas con diseños preciosos, como Reedbeds, Quiet Evenings, Dream Safari, Sky Stadium, Deep Magic, Archers by the Sea y esta maravilla de Calypso Borealis, su primera cinta e inencontrable, al menos para mí, durante años. Emmanuel que, increíbles casualidades de la vida, es de origen gallego y veranea en Nigrán todos los veranos, tuvo a bien enviármela y aquí está, por fin, para disfrutar de su verde musgo y de sus drones dulcísimos en todo su esplendor.

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