"we at Sanity Muffin deam this album one of our favorite releases to date, beautiful, beautiful beautiful))) Lovage's voice and song structures are beyond original, textural and transforming... such a beautiful treasure and perfect in every way on cassette."
"we've been in a constant state of glowing bliss ever since we first pressed play on this collection of beautiful psychedelic folk songs by Oakland's (by way of Canada) Phipps Pt. glistening vocals drenched in sheets of intoxicating reverb melt perfectly into majestic guitar shimmer and subtle keyboard textures. we're reminded of one of our favorite UK psych folk artists Pantaleimon, as Lovage (aka Phipps Pt.) has the same kind of voice, all dreamy but with a distinctly dark disposition. It's easy to imagine Current 93 joining forces with Phipps. Pt., the sounds on Kiss melting in a haze dripping with endless warmth. this is such a rewarding and engulfing listen. we could go on and on about how much we love this, but we got the last 8 of these in existence, so chances are this will likely be gone before you've finished reading these words. we can't wait to hear what she does next!." aquarius
qué bien Myriam Gendron (letras de Dorothy Parker, un poquito de Nina Nastasia y otro poco de Sybille Baier) y Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (tanto tiempo esperando a que Jasmine Dreame Wagner diera una señal de vida). pero Lovage Sharrock me tumba. Caethua, Pocahaunted,Itasca, Edison Woods, Christina Carter (mucho mucho), y aún así diferente a todas. una canción: 'wearhythm' (una flauta, una guitarra, su voz). otra: 'the would and' . y mi favorita: 'rites of time' (hay un silbido y una melodía con aroma a clásico que me recuerda a 'true love will find you in the end' de Daniel Johnston). por el medio, una versión de 'sea song' de Robert Wyatt, tan elegante como sólo podría serlo Christina Carter.
"incredible culling of rare Sun Ra material from impossible to find
Saturn jams mostly 1960s-1970s in a hand-coloured by Oakland kids
edition of only 100 copies: running the classic Ra gamut from solo synth
bloop through full-on sci-fi gospel orchestra, beatbox violence, space
chants and wiggy full ensemble horn freak outs, this is pretty much the
bomb in terms of unheard Sun Ra and pretty much everyone who has heard
it has been blown away. all covers are unique and hand-coloured just
like the original Saturn sleeves. cassette release of the year? highly recommended!" volcanic tongue
"one of the best mixes of Sun Ra material we have ever heard. a dynamic and continuous mix of spectacular Sun Ra music projected
out from pyramid tops for all to enjoy and be transformed by! if you don't know much about Sun Ra's music, we'll here's a perfect
sampler of his material, mostly taken from rare 60's & 70's
recordings, rare synth stylings, solo abstract piano work, deep trip hop
like grooves mixed with horn freak-outs, gospel vocal chants and Sun Ra
speach insights!
each cover is unique and different as they are all hand colored by the neighborhood kids here in Oakland, just like the original private press records the band colored in between rehersal takes! All copies of this limited to 200 pressing come with a foe Saturn Records Buisness Card with the Chicago and Oakland phone #'s on them!" sanity muffin
"Sun Ra first solo homemade recordings eerie-ly recorded onto a reel to reel in the beyond dark ages of 1948. now that ra is 100 and floating in the interstellar space: here is the blueprint of his trademark glee-spree sprawl dipped into the cosmic glitter of nothingness, alone in a empty church with nothing but his vivid and endless imagination to co-pilot. if the "carnival of souls" soundtrack by genius gene moore is enough to make you want to take it with you forever & drive off a bridge: heres more smiling golems of interplanetary lost-world haunts to pepper your eerie day.
fairly “inzane” ~looking issue of this short suite of recordings made on reel-to-reel by sun ra in 1948 in a “mysterious location” running through standards (and an “abstract original”) on a fully-fledged church organ, predating his more outré tendencies by a good few years. nice, crispy, overloaded recording spec lends a harmonic richness & claustrophobic weight to the proceedings.” mimaroglu
