Like a distant cousin to the circular window previously opened for UK’s Birkwin Jersey, “Orinoco” revels in beat symmetry, sputtering from forest to full kaleidoscoped cycle.
It belongs to a seven track EP called Old Hands arriving January 13th via Absent Fever. This post is in balance with Decoder, the freshly reconceptualized GOTC, and cultural magazine—learn more (and pledge support for its debut issue) at Kickstarter.
One late night in a performance space last fall, RxRy and Nathaniel mentally and physically synced from opposite sides of the room. That connection has grown in recent months; through shadow-chats and file shares they’ve opened up a limitless thread of possibility, and what breaths here is likely not the last of ideas to materialize. The Birth of Medusa, which works in both the mythological and biological senses of the term, is an audio/visual poem, a written piece scored and rendered into movement. All footage was shot using an iPhone in Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, and all sound was designed by Rx specifically for the text. And with that said, the rest is best absorbed beside.
“The albums I lived in” was the basic thought that opened last year’s list of LPs. The same applies today, and the only idea to add is: colors. On S&S throughout 2011, you might have noticed a shift towards tweaked images or collages of sorts; it just happened, almost subconsciously, in an ongoing attempt to somehow get a hold of where this music can send us. So naturally that process continued, and escalated, when approaching this year’s favorites, and now here we are:
This one first took to the A.M. over a year ago, and it’s circling back again (after all, it is infinite), in upgraded form, to skywrite an announcement: Under Sleeping Waves 12/25.
Happy Particles | Infinite Jet
Glasgow’s Happy Particles have decided to self-release their record on Christmas Day. And if there’s a single flight that can speak for the rest, it’s probably Jet, with those orchestrated highs and lows, charging through 2/3rds before dropping down to half speed on the final stretch—a soft-burnt trail left in its wake, right where the strings of “Slowness” take over. Previously channeled “Come Home All Dead Ones” arranges a similar bed for “Empty Circle”, and so on. Ten pieces total, each in perfect distance from the next, and available December 25th at the HP camp.
Yalls is back with that stained glass focus, headed down deep to light up the dark end with an air pocket full of surprises. Half him, half hiccups from another time, this stuttering number alternates between two demands: sink or dance, and really we’re left doing some head-bobbing variation of both.
The track is one of twelve to appear on Together, a Cultus Vibes compilation which drops tomorrow. Stop by Jimmy’s and Timmy’s for two more before release (and Fadar has a cut from the vibes man himself, Mr. Daze).