Stadiums & Shrines

 

RxRy | L.3_Glacious

Glacious belongs to L, which resides in Alpha, a complete and approaching release. This massive particle arrangement will be worth the wait, and hopefully can spread over some wax one day.
RxRy‘s self portrait hangs above, and words, below:

in a space between two points of light
a swarm of dust ripples waves
on the open jaws of the evening

yawn like rain clouds parting slowly
across the entombed face of geography
frozen in ice that was Mesozoic vapors

galactic gyre of fractured meteoric tail
across the tender arc of the glass dome
the soft curve of the sky’s one skull

suspended in dry air over opaque ranges
the flux of tide’s shallowest breath
spinning sand and bones in spiracles

harbingers of stasis and furled feathers
as slow as the sun forgetting favor
or diamonds flowing cold in the brook.

space clouds tail dry feathers

dust geography glass tide’s favor

jaws ice skull spiracle diamonds

tail feathers
glass favor
skull diamonds

clouds dry
geography tides
ice spiracle

space
dust
jaws

_Rx

 

“A lot of songs have been written about the ocean and now my landlocked brain finally understands why. In those waves I saw beauty, chaos, nothing, infinity. It was overwhelming. We set off to make a nautical funeral of sorts or perhaps a celebration of all things eventually turning to sand. A wabi-sabi beach album for the infinite ocean.”

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Mutual Benefit | I Saw The Sea

We’ve been underwater with Mutual Benefit before. While that first feeling was essentially daydreamt, this one comes from somewhere more tangible. Recently inspired by a mini tour up the west coast, Jordan Lee relocated from Ohio to Boston and wrote I Saw The Sea. The stunning piece is fully formed with the help of friends including a touch of violin from Katie Pierce.

There’s also a little kickstarter up to support their Kassette Klub/Head Underwater showcase at South by Southwest. Backers will get this release and beyond.

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I read the other day that parts of New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces were just re-discovered. The geothermic formations (whose native names translate to “fountain of the clouded sky” and “the tattooed rock”) had once been considered the 8th wonder of the world, and attracted tourists from all over due to their surreal beauty and pure white silica hot springs. That is until 1886, when a devastating volcano erupted, burying them in a crater of sediment, consequently shaping a lake that would eventually swallow every trace of their existence.

That idea somehow inspires this mix: an arrangement* of tracks (old and new) that simply feel like this phenomenon, from enchanted mist to tragic ash to aquatic darkness.

Tracklist and download is over at the extraordinary Rebel Magazine.

Special note: the Louis Armstrong cover (by My Bloody Valentine) is a tribute to the late John Barry, and a track from Victorialand is in there for… Victoria, of course.