dinasty at ghost town

"this 11 artist tape batch has more than one red thread running through it ~ the magnificent art by Simon Fowler (who crafted the cover Sanguine Futures by High aura’d, among many others) is echoed by the sense of awakening and mantra throughout the varied styles of the works. all tapes are pro-dubbed on Type II Chrome tape, imprinted on both sides, and inserted with high quality 4-panel J-Cards." bathetic records

panabrite ~ tracer ep (bathetic, 2014)

"kinetic modular pop"  

"Tracer EP pulls together brief exercises in percussive modular synthesizer experiments and minimal keyboard workouts, a sort of hazy approximation of discarded documentary score and blown-out basement synth framed in a peculiar narrative sensibility."

listen ~ buy 
 

aquarelle ~ interrupted forms (bathetic, 2014)

“electroacoustic, liberated from expected choice, emboldened by whim-salmgundi”

listen ~ buy 

planning for burial ~ distances (bathetic, 2014) 

 “preordained ruination, doldrums amplified & improvised, hung with care”

listen ~ buy

scott tuma ~ cracker where i am (bathetic, 2014)

“sun tea, bleached Hired Hand, windup music box”

listen ~ buy

high aura'd ~ teeth for sinking in (bathetic, 2014)

“John Muir presents blackened ambient”

listen ~ buy

m geddes gengras ~ 8.2.13 (bathetic, 2014)

 “convergent tectonics, building toward volcanic winter”

listen ~ buy 

lee noble ~ forming (bathetic, 2014)

“a yearning, plead with an earnest seduction” 

listen ~ buy

padang food tigers ~ running my habits clean (bathetic, 2014)

“an ascendance to true contemplation, the porch parishioners”

listen ~ buy

ekin fil ~ a moon heart (bathetic, 2014)

“will o’ the wisp, barreleye gazing upward toward the sea surface”

listen ~ buy

zac nelson ~ vulgar divination (bathetic, 2014)

 “a secular invocation, a reflected invitation to delight”

 listen ~ buy 

  

willian cody watson ~  憂鬱 (bathetic, 2014)

“a lonely collage meat for late night crawling. lauding darkness, but hopeful for brighter days.”

listen ~ buy

la máxima alegría sería tener todas estas cintas juntas, de golpe, colocadas pegaditas en la estantería. sólo he podido escuchar entera la de Panabrite ('pop modular cinético' tocado sobre collages sonoros saltarines, efervescentes, movedizos, library, la más querida y la que me hace especial ilusión) pero los samples de High Aura'd, Padang Food Tigers, Scott Tuma y Aquarelle son una preciosidad. aunque todos lo son, de la pe a la pa, sin excepción, porque el espíritu de Bruce Langhorne revolotea sobre casi todos ellos. coherencia, belleza, buen gusto... y Scott Tuma, que por mucho que lo recomiende nunca sería suficiente. de cuando las portadas, todas ilustradas por Simon Fowler, acompañan a la música.

~ la hornada completa ~

lake mary

 lake mary ~ komebai (wounded knife, 2013)

"I was stoked to get asked to be apart of the Wounded Knife family, and in knowing that they dealt mostly in improvised music, I figured I would stick somewhat to the format, which lead me to choosing, and finishing, these two tracks. Both based on improvisations with classical composer/pianist Eric Rich & the band Inner Oceans. These songs to me, sound like waking up,and in these specific cases, waking up in the mountains of western Colorado or to the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. Typically I stick to the acoustic guitar, but for these songs I don’t think I even picked it up, banjo yes, but this is a rare treat. please take the time to listen to Eric Rich & Inner Oceans as well, for they have changed my life in so many ways." Chaz Prymek

sencillo y descriptivo, Chaz Prymek definiendo y musicando el despertar de la naturaleza. en sus cintas, al menos las que he escuchado, siempre hay dos canciones muy diferentes una de la otra y nunca sé decir cuál me gusta más. suelen tener esa peculiaridad, oklahoma soul y ambient soul praderil en un polvoriento cruce de caminos. y siempre en pequeñas dosis: primero 'canopy​/​mardotsha' (Planted Tapes), después su colaboración con Nathan Wheeler ('agrimony, porch music') y un sendo split con Padang Food Tigers (Scissor Tails) que captura lo incapturable, toda la magia de 'the hired hand' de Bruce Langhorne. y por último esta preciosidad pensada para transportarnos no sólo a esas montañas de Colorado y Utah, sino incluso, y sin exagerar ni un ápice, más allá del sistema solar.

en la cara a, 'wake up lake, wake up' compendia como nunca su cálida tonalidad otoñal con experimentos acústicos sobre texturas improvisadas, fluído y sin sobresaltos, al estilo Terry Riley meets Silver Antlers. cuando no sabes si lo que suena son miles de guitarras cristalinas deslizándose o un sinte que fluye como agua de río, cuando las cosas no son lo que parecen y el ambient puede ser orgánico como una flautilla de bambú. en 'white pine' teje un puzzle precioso con un banjo y algo que parece un armonio o tal vez el curioso, entrañable, fascinante piano-bicicleta de Eric Rich. minimalismo de cámara con la mirada puesta en nombres que infunden respeto: Morton Feldman, Harry Partch y Lubomyr Melnyk o el lado más dulce de Pierre Palla. ambient con un poso folk, drone folk, avant folk, morriña a la estadounidense, no sé, algo agradable y ensoñador como la música de Dura y Alabaster Falcons.

sold out ~ listen/name your price

padang food tigers

padang food tigers ~ ready country nimbus (bathetic, 2012)

"warm, embracing, nostalgic, emotive. a few words to describe the indefinable, thrown into the wind to pin the immersive atmospheres located within the wax of Padang Food Tigers' (ex-drone folk heroes, Rameses III) new album, Ready Country Nimbus. comparable to feathers floating in the breeze, this London-based duo (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) make their gentle passage via sublime vignettes to set up residence in pastures new. theirs is the sound of dirt and cobwebs being swept from the corners of childhood memories. the world weeps tears of knowledge, comfort, concentration, enlightenment, while handing flowers to a parade of beautiful women.

Ready Country Nimbus is an emotional sepia-tinged blend of tones, gospel, and spirit. it's more than music, it's a swelling presence. it’s inflated poetry, bent and focused through the necks of guitars, banjos and nature. It's kind of holy. for fans of: Scott Tuma, The Hired Hand soundtrack, Derek Bailey, Loren Connors, Tetuzi Akiyama." bathetic

estoy levitando de felicidad...si bruce langhorne no hubiese compuesto the hired hand, creo que la música de padang food tigers sería perfecta como banda sonora imaginaria de la preciosa película de peter fonda, como 'you can never go fast enough' para 'two-lane blacktop', o 'tropical malady' de félicia atkinson. qué pizpireta la caracola cuando hace casi dos años nos recomendaba 'go down, moses' en luzzzalig. especialmente dedicado para los que en su próxima vidosa quieren ser un banjo

~ listen ~

(download their previous albums go down, moses & born music)