L'ANIMAUX HQ = ICE PLANET HOTH
THREE NEW LIMITED CASSETTES
[planets around the sun, concord ballet orchestra players, white light & cursillistas]
With the ever-present danger of being permanently snowed-in, it's a fairly typical January here in Maine... And while actual windows-down road-trip days seem pretty far off at the moment, we can at least offer a variety of new soundtracks to your favorite metaphorical/metaphysical trip of choice...
Deep waters beneath the floe:
LTFR 026: PLANETS AROUND THE SUN: TOWER FORMAT: CS [C-32] // EDITION: 45 // RELEASED: 01.25.11 // SOLD OUT
WITH AN OUT-OF-PRINT DEBUT CASSETTE [GOLD, DIGITALIS LTD.] UNDER THEIR ASTEROID BELT (AND A DOUBLE-LP WAITING IN THE WINGS), PLANETS AROUND THE SUN EMERGE FROM THEIR PSYCHIC SABBATICAL TO PRESENT THE TOWER CASSETTE. SELECTED FROM NEARLY THREE YEARS OF DOCUMENTED EXPERIMENTATION, THESE FOUR TRACKS PLAY LIKE RADIO TRANSMISSIONS FROM EXTENDED TRIPS INTO A STARLESS VOID, RETURNING WITH THE MESSAGE THAT PSYCHEDELIA ISN'T ALL PAISLEY AND PEPPERMINT SWIRL. THE CURIOUS PSILOCYBIN-NAVIGATING OPENER WINDS INTO THE RITUAL DOOM-MARCH OF LONG-TIME LIVE STAPLE "SLOW HORSE", HERE CAPTURED IN ALL ITS BLOWN-OUT LIVE-FI GLORY. A TAPE-FLIP REVEALS EVEN DARKER ROADS AHEAD: WAILING ECSTATICS PULLED SUBTERRANEAN, SURFACING FOR AIR TO THE OBEAHICALLY-WARPED INNER-GROOVES OF A POSSESSED BLACK ARK DUBPLATE. THE TAPE RUNS OUT ON AN ORGAN-AND-WAH-PEDAL-STOMPING FREE-PSYCH JAM, AMBIENTLY RECORDED AMONGST THE BLIPS AND WHIRS OF THE SPACE VESSEL'S ELECTRONICS RUNNING ON ZERO-GRAVITY AUTOPILOT. A MIXTAPE FOR YOUR NEXT TRIP ALONG INNERSPACE HIGHWAYS, TOWER IS STRICTLY LIMITED TO 45 HAND-NUMBERED HOME-DUBBED BLACK FOIL CASSETTES, PACKAGED IN FULL-COLOR PRO-PRINTED HEAVY STOCK J-CARDS IN NORELCO CASE.
AFTER BEARING WITNESS TO A COUPLE MIND-BLOWING LIVE SETS BY THESE PSYCHEDELIC TRUTH-SEEKERS, WE ARE COMPLETE CONVERTS TO CONCORD BALLET ORCHESTRA PLAYERS' CAUSE AND ARE PROUD TO BRING THEIR EPIC ANALOG DEBUT DOUBLE-CASSETTE AUDIO-TOME FANFOS TO THE PHYSICAL REALM. CONCORD BALLET GATHERS TOGETHER A CREW OF THE BOSTON-AREA'S FINEST KRAUT-WORSHIPERS, SPACE-ROCK PSYCHONAUTS, AND IN-THE-MOMENT FREE-IMPROV EXPERIMENTALISTS ONTO A SINGLE SPRAWLING STAGE, RESULTING IN A WIDE VARIETY OF HEADY CINEMASCOPE-WORTHY JAMS. DOCUMENTING CBOP RELATIVELY EARLY IN ITS EXISTENCE, FANFOS SUGGESTS A PARTICULARLY WIDE-OPEN CANVAS AND TECHNICOLOR PALETTE OF POSSIBILITIES (GHOSTLY THEREMIN, FLUTE, CASIO BANKS, ELECTRIC GUITAR DIVINATIONS, GROOVING BASSLINES AND EDGE-OF-SEAT DRUMS), LEADING THE LISTENER DOWN PRISMATICALLY-VARIED PATHS AS THE BAND NAVIGATES THRU THE PERPETUALLY-MANIFESTING "NOW". RANGING FROM BRIEF MYSTERIOUS VIGNETTES TO MAJESTIC SIDE-LONG MINDSCAPES, THESE TRACKS WERE RECORDED WITH A FLY-ON-THE-WALL LIVE QUALITY THAT DOESN'T OMIT TRIPPED FIRE ALARMS, OFF-MIC SNEEZES, OR STUMBLES, ALL OF WHICH REVEAL CONCORD BALLET TO BE DEVOUT BELIEVERS IN AUTHENTIC IMPROVISATION AND PSYCHEDELIA. EXPERTLY MASTERED BY GREG DAVIS AND PRO-DUPED ONTO PREMIUM CHROME TAPE, FANFOS IS LIMITED TO 75 COPIES AND PACKAGED "AUDIO-BOOK STYLE" IN A WHITE VINYL FOLDER, WITH PRO-PRINTED FULL-COLOR COVER ART. ALSO INCLUDES A DOWNLOAD CODE FOR A COMPLEMENTARY DIGITAL COPY, FOR EASIER TRACK-BY-TRACK PARSING OF THIS MASSIVE MISSIVE.
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In addition to these new titles, we still have a few copies left of Jared Fairfield's Mysteries cassette, the Gorman Trio / Sacred Basil split cassette, and Endless Caverns' Magi Hymnal cassette... grab them from the storefront before they're gone... and as always, out-of-print titles can be purchased via Tomentosa and Eclipse mailorders.
We'll also have copies of the brand-new Endless Caverns cassette Sensei Deprivation Tape on Existential Cloth Recordings by the end of the week... feel free to place an order now at the online store.
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Keep warm, till next time,
MLJ
