paa annandalii ~ cavernous fruits

paa annandalii ~ cavernous fruits (rotifer, 2016)

I always had deep respect to Robert's work, first of all because of Mohave Triangles – it was so huge and intense and dazed and trippy... No words to describe its magic, just pure joy for any drone-maniac! After long hiatus Paa Annandalii appeared, continuing synth-driven drone journey even deeper, through caverns of human mind – searching for pineal treasures, subconscious revelations and simply relaxing the listener to the state of all-pervading radiance. Which we all are, as a matter of fact! No new age philosophy needed to explain that, just look at everything from the quantum physics point of view. And don't forget that the act of observation itself has an impact on observed. So there is no "reality" behind music actually, and that's why we can't live without it. Music reminds us our nature, especially if it is truly continuous music, reduced to basic formula of intertwined frequencies, breathing inside one cluster of tones. Going that way we may feel disembodied, omnipresent energy, that fills everything without any border. Have you ever felt that? It's refreshing and inspiring, no matter how often you do it! I suppose this is the point from where this music radiates, waving its way to unknown... And you always welcome to join that ship.

listen ~ buy

deep magic & mohave triangles

 deep magic & mohave triangles ~ split (diatom bath, 2016)

"final release for Mohave Triangles & probably the last release of Deep Magic as well. this one was in the works for quite some time; so long that it has become a portal into the past, even better though a chance to once again come full circle. 

Diatom Bath has been slowly churning the waters for some time and with this release brings the end of these projects up to the surface & really pulls into question the idea of progression. most importantly pushing forth the feeling to linger a little longer. to bath in this now. sit in the meadow and watch this sun set today on these grasses and these flowers & these companions." tomentosa

listen/buy mohave triangles ~ listen deep magic ~ buy cassette

paa annandalii

paa annandalii ~ altars (celestial paths ltd., 2015)  

Two excellent celestial journeys guided by Robert Thompson in limited edition of 25 copies each.

Robert Thompson of Quartz Safari and Mohave Triangles fame is returning to shelves of drone lovers with two new titles both exquisite and powerful in terms of deep listening and contemplation. 'Altars' is a closest thing to Mohave's 'Astral Holograms' - synth drone epic that felt like you're going to float in space forever, even when tape will turn into dust inside your deck after centuries of playing on repeat. Dense and think walls of sound combined here, on 'Altars' with lightness, and there are some real magic in doing that. You can dive deeply into the textures of synth flows and then realise that you've gone through them, somewhere to completely different space. It's like flying above the clouds and even higher, to see white sun and black sky on the background. 'Altars' tape proves that sound can be so transcending at some point, that you don't need to know what it was about, when artist recorded it - you just starting to feel and experience something new. And it happens each time when you ready for such experience.

paa annandalii ~ yen pox (celestial paths ltd., 2015) 

'Yen Pox' tape goes to another territories, previously explored by such hermits as Deep Magic, Black Eagle Child and Rambutan - using guitar as source of endless loops forming rainbow-like stairway, but not to heaven (at least in usual meaning), but to higher consciousness levels. Yes, it might be called a 'heaven' of our own self and in that case we can interpret these tracks as mantras or aural mandalas built from brightly shining Nothing. Since the beginning of times people used two main sources of achieving this 'heaven' - sacred plants and music. Both methods are working good, but music is the most exquisite, ethereal and yet powerful. Some sound textures have ability of activating hidden capabilities of mind and our imagination is only first of them. Then goes much more and it gives us much more space of choices, than any psychedelic substance, which impact is usually 'programmed' and predictable. 'Yen Pox' has potential for deepest exploration inside perception and interpretation of our selves and world around. Yet at the same time it may be just nice relaxing music for your evening with book and burning incense. And it's part of this free choice thing. Or free will. As Kyle Landstra once said: 'choose your own adventure type of music'. And what's good - it's a new adventure every time!

listen / download (name your price) / buy cassette

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(hoy damos la bienvenida a un nuevo tree people: Tim Six de Creation VI, autor del blog and you will never learn who is pied paper. y con dos sendas cintas de Robert Thompson :) como siempre, mucha ilusión.)

granules

 granules ~ unfolding (self-released, 2011)

Sepehr Lemar Nabi • guitar, Kaoss pad, percussion, processing, arrangements, cover artwork

Franciscus Alex Rebro • piano, glockenspiel, mbira, Roland FA-76, beer bottles, field recordings, percussion, samples, processing, arrangements

Niv Bavarsky • guitar, voice, percussion, processing 

tracks #5 and #12 feature flute contributions from Sarah Stanley

"Granules is an experimental workshop ~ Sepehr, Niv and I have unique musical backgrounds, artistic interests and tastes, and we never once sat down to discuss specifically what our "sound" or aesthetic should be like, though we did discuss tracks in the works. the music developed naturally out of the constraints of our recording capabilities and what we were interested in playing and hearing. many influences have made deep impressions on all three of us in different ways, including experimental electronic music, jazz, 20th century composition and ambient music. we want to abandon genre idioms and explore new expressions through experiments in texture, color and form. we also want to evoke unusual images. Unfolding began as somewhat of a jumble of ideas, but as we worked together for over a year, scrapping and revising tracks, a sense of movement and unification started to come together. I don't want to make any comment as to the emotional qualities of the music, save for that I've honestly never heard anything quite like it." franciscus alex rebro/giraffe kingdom

foto: svimmel

más frágil imposible, más bonito, tampoco. cantidad de detalles, grabaciones, de campo, tintineos de campanillas, flautas, triángulos, cristalitos chocando unos contra otros, el ulular de un búho, gotas salpicando o incluso rozando, glockenspiel, piano, y una sensación de que, como dice Franciscus, no hay nada que se le parezca, excepto tal vez los collages microscópicos de Quartz Safari, grupo en el que toca precisamente Sepehr Nabi junto a Robert Thompson de Mohave Triangles. de ahí la fascinación.

listen ~ buy 

paa annandalii

 paa annandalii ~ transhumance (celestial paths ltd., 2013)

tape coming soon

Field Synthesis~Star Gazer
Dreamspace~Spirit Observatory
Transhumance

all music by Robert Thompson

nada... que no dejan de salir discos preciosos que quiero compartir. Quartz Safari, Mohave Triangles, Pendulums, Ursa Mnr, Paa Annandalii... siempre cambiante, siempre inquieto, Robert y su impresionante capacidad para hacer canciones con la misma facilidad con la que respira. la inspiración infinita. con este frío que pela lo único que apetece es refugiarse en su música cósmica y elevadora, pero Paa Annandalii tiene un aura nepalí muy especial. 'field synthesis' (un crescendo emocionante, tan fluída y sedosa que podrías escucharla una mañana entera sin cansarte), 'star gazer' (un sintetizador cual harmonium) y 'spirit observatory' son las que expresan a la perfección en qué lugar se encuentra el comandante espacial Robert Thompson, en algún punto intermedio entre Kyle Landstra, Pandit Pran Nath (en el corazón) y Klaus Schulze. también me recuerda a Ghostrider y Grapefruit, pero suena a Robert Thompson y sólo a Robert Thompson. denso e intenso, respirando, flotando y difuminando el espacio y los sentidos. las cintas boreales, las cintas de la tranquilidad.

listen/name your price

quartz safari

   quartz safari ~ quartz safari (fadeaway tapes, 2013)

"the follow up to their "pineal origins" tape from 2011, this self-titled release from quartz safari shows robert thompson and sepehr nabi weaving an intricate web of immersive electronic sound. digital textures tease the ears as evocative signals are sent through space. pro-duplicated, edition of 50." fadeaway tapes

reconozco mi debilidad por las cintas de Fadeaway Tapes (Sundrips, Thoughts on Air, Venn Rain, Bandicoot Trail, Knit Prism...), por eso no podía imaginar un hogar mejor para la música de Robert Thompson de Mohave Triangles. Quartz Safari, cuya facilidad para encontrar la magia en los sonidos más orgánicos y diminutos y multiplicarla ya estaba en el caleidoscópico 'pineal origins', son la perfección sensorial, una mezcla de collages de microsonidos, efectos digitales y pequeñas espirales sonoras que fluyen como la seda. junto a Sepehr Nabi (él desde América, Sepehr desde Noruega), crea tranquilos paisajes de música sincronizando electrónicamente música ambiental, glitches, texturas y grabaciones de campo. 

dentro de la infinita gama de sensaciones que es cada canción, 'big freeze' es casi mi favorita. una de las más delicadas de un disco que desborda delicadeza. bordeando el sonido Dekorder, se refugia en el calor ya tan familiar y los loops de guitarra de Reedbeds. tan retro, tan romántica, es como si alguien se hubiese dejado olvidado al sol 'sentimental favourites' de Andrew Pekler y M. Sage lo rescatase casi derretido. 'supernova' es tal cual su nombre indica, una explosión estelar cuyo brillo va desvaneciéndose suavemente hasta desaparecer del todo. en 'now', unos arreglos minúsculos se desperezan para arrimarse con timidez a la electrónica crepitante (esa aguja desgastada que algunos llaman plug-in) y granulada de Fennesz (no se muy bien porqué, pero últimamente muchos discos me recuerdan al universo ingrávido y digital de 'endless summer'). nada comparable, sin embargo, a esa delicia final que es 'someplace empty', bonitísima, transparente en sus detalles, tan Journey of Mind. sus bucles sonoros que se desarrollan en continuo pero casi imperceptible cambio son el cierre perfecto para otro disco pequeño que suena como otro enorme. o, mejor dicho, para otro pequeño gran disco.

listen/buy ~ see ~ buy the tape

quartz safari

 quartz safari ~ pineal origins (rotifer, 2011)

"Pineal Origins by Quartz Safari is remarkably complex compared to a lot of other ambient-type electronic recordings that I've heard. rather than just choosing a few notes to drone over the duration of ten minutes and then call it a day, these recordings take serene field recordings (birds, water, etc.), heavily digitized electronic manipulations, and very light sounding guitar recordings and pack them into very dense ambient soundscapes that are some of the best I've heard. definitely a great overseas collaboration, US to Norway, that shouldn't go unheard for fans of dense ambient electronic music." prog archives

"debut release from the American-Norwegian collaboration between Robert Thompson (aka Mohave Triangles) and Sepehr Nabi. 40 minutes of psychedelic ambient, full of processed and glitchy guitar improvisations and occasional field recordings" weed temple

parafraseando a noise is a friend: etéreo: 1. del latín aether, que es intangible o poco definido y, a la vez, sutil o sublime. 2. relativo al éter. 3. de las esferas celestes, celestial. 4. una palabra preciosa, que flota, que no pesa. 5. fluido vaporoso, sutil, invisible, imponderable y elástico que, según cierta hipótesis, llenaba todo el espacio, y por su movimiento vibratorio transmitía la luz, el calor y otras formas de energía. 6. algo que no parece de este mundo, como Old Joy de Kelly Reichardt, el autorretrato de Munch o la música de Quartz Safari. ojalá pudiera decir algo realmente bonito sin sonar repetitiva ni recurrir a los tópicos, pero lo que de verdad importa es, como en las películas, ese momento en que escuchas un disco y te llega de forma especial... en realidad como todo lo relacionado con Mohave Triangles y en este caso el trío perfecto que forma con Seperh Nabi y Rotifer

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