microphones in the trees: royallen
Showing posts with label royallen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royallen. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2015

venn rain / jeff brown / jade poppyfield / cool person / kurma



~ long ago recordings from Jimmy Billingham's dark wafting dream machine ~



 ~ a two cassette, four way split. the answered ad in the back of a science fiction novella asking writers to submit their own work. heavy on themes, and story arch placement ~

 featured sounds:

North Carolina's Kurma
Georgia's Jade Poppyfield
Florida's Cool Person
Washington's Jeff Brown

Friday, May 02, 2014

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

perspectives / josh mason


"after excavating concurrent sonic paths for the past decade, ancient friends Josh Mason, Josh Tippery and Kyle Conklin have finally come together on this tape; almost like they planned it this way all along… Perspectives present a slightly more developed sound than we are accustomed, while Josh Mason continues to fiddle with space-time, vibrating us into the next plane." permanent nostalgia


Tuesday, October 08, 2013

cenote glow / tipow


"Franklin Teagle post-Afterlife solo synth mind-expansion."



"collaboration of Josh Tippery & Michael Pouw comprised of degraded tape manipulations and dusty guitar improvs."


Worn Habit, una debilidad que nunca han dejado de darnos alegrías a pesar de su empeño en pasar de puntillas. siempre sinónimo de delicatessen y otoño, siempre en perfecta consonancia con sus portadas: nadie las mima como Michael Pouw. ¿os acordáis de Forming? mínima fidelidad, mínimas copias, mínima distribución, felicidad máxima. me faltan palabras para describir 'palmetto rose'. unos cascabeles nos introducen poco a poco en una melodía hipnótica sin fin cuya energía me recuerda a 'free sentient beings' the The Rainbow Body. bucle de bucles, espiral de espirales, cambio de cambios (minuto 5:32 de la cara b) y esa cosa intangible, tan necesaria y a veces ausente, llamada esencia. pocas cosas más flotantes y cálidas que la cara a y la cara b de Cenote Glow escucharemos este año. ¿superbrain de Buchikamashi?. tampoco una portada más comestible. ni un título más musical. Tipow (Michael en buena compañía de Josh Tippery de Royallen y Cool Person) brillan por igual pero a muchísima más baja fidelidad, lo mejor de los mundos de Permanent Nostalgia y Worn Habit. loops, cintas manipuladas, guitarras que casi ni se aprecian, frecuencias misteriosas, sonidos aletargados, ruido agradable. Tipow, esa palabra tan chula formada a partir de los nombres de Tippery y Pouw...ti...pow. 

Monday, July 23, 2012

s. gone / royallen / llanten


"danchisko may have shortened the name but the impact is still long for this world. the previous sovetskaya jaunts were dreamy affairs but "kimberley al butnan" is something else. skeletal, irregular rhythms dot the horizon while methodic key plundering follows the trail up the mountain. each point on the map flirts with melodicism while staying on the knife's edge. there's a wobbly, uneasy feeling hiding under the surface, but i'm okay with getting seasick as long as we continue down this way." experimedia



"royallen: blessed recoveries from the minister himself. this track may or may not count as a cultural anthropology credit. It’s like flipping through the various stations and each offers a moment of random ramblings from the local dj or a juncture of juxtaposed junk jingles and jangles. llanten: deep tribal lucidities with an impenetrable flow. tribal ritualism, primitive rhythms, narcotic washes, and mesmerizing trails. It’s an anthropological hodgepodge that continuously flows from one groove to the next. cultural immersion in collective postmodern contrasts and contradictions." rotifer / foxy digitalis