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grouper / xela - Tsuki No Seika: Volume One
*STRICTLY LIMITED COPIES ONLY AVAILABLE OF THIS SUBSCRIPTION SERIES 7" - SLEEP AND WEEP* Strictly speaking, this split 7" from Grouper and Xela is a subscription-only release, and so shouldn't really be available to shops, but we've managed to grab a handful from the super generous Root Strata label (bearing in mind that it is actually limited to 300 copies for the world). This record marks the very first installment of Root Strata's 'Tsuki No Seika' series, a sequence of four 7"s that will go on to include contributions from Christina Carter, Richard Youngs, Islaja, Zelienople, Hisato Higuchi and Valet. The common theme running throughout is a restriction to acappella compositions, and the overall air of autonomy and self-sufficiency is even carried over into the artwork: each artist illustrates their own side of the sleeve. Grouper's musical contribution has something faintly festive about it, sounding like the warm-up hum of undead Christmas carollers. The piece acquires the seamless, fog-caked, drone-like quality that characterised Liz Harris' earliest output, momentarily abandoning her more songwriterly instincts for a return to the brilliantly intangible and esoteric qualities of 'Way Their Crept'. The Xela side is more discernible as a vocals-only piece, and avoiding droned-out abstraction he layers darkly reverberant falsetto recordings that tap into the almost Arvo Part-like streak recurrent in his work of late. The tone encroaches on something that's at least similar to ecclesiastical music, taking on the improbable aesthetic of a one-man church choir from the fourteenth century. Only the song's title upsets that logic: it's called 'I Drowned Her In A Dreamless Sleep'. This all makes for an exceptional start to the series, and with the likes of Carter and Youngs - both seasoned purveyors of unaccompanied vocal recordings - waiting in the wings, this bears all the hallmarks of an absolutely classic collectors edition. Grab one while you can.
NOT NOT FUN
LP // £15.99
Haunting and enigmatic lo-fi song sculptures from Californian psych maven Eva Saelens
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
NOW: £4.49
Easily one of the standout LP's of year: haunted loops, half-remembered lullabies and layered embers of sound.
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
NOW: £4.49
Incredible album fusing in elements of Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Slowdive and Badalamenti...
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Dense, harrowing and intense Death ambient from the heart of New Mexico...Highly Recommended.
Load Records
CD // £12.99
Powerhouse riffage and scourgingly precise bass vs. drum assaults from the amazing Lightning Bolt
DIGITALIS
MP3 Download // £2.99
FLAC Download // £3.99
Five great selections from the current crop of Digitalis artists
Type Recordings
MP3 Download // £4.99
FLAC Download // £5.99
Easily one of the standout LP's of year: haunted loops, half-remembered lullabies and layered embers of sound.
Repeat (Special Hand-Numbered Edition)
MIATERA
LP // £16.99
Slow, hugely absorbing minimalist masterclass - limited to 300 numbered copies with gold leaf insert.
APPLE PIPS
12" // £5.99
Amazing twelve with shades of T++, Breakage and Scuba rolled into a stunning deepstyle rollers groove.
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £3.50
FLAC Download // £4.50
Root Strata present a blissful suite of ambient reflections by Sean McCann.
Ahh-Ahh - Music for Ed Tannenbaum's Technological Feets, 1984-1987
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £3.95
FLAC Download // £4.95
Boldly experimental electronic experiments recorded in 1984-1987 on an Apple II computer and samplers.
Forever Falling Toward The Sky
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £3.50FLAC Download // £4.50
The solo project of Higuma’s Lisa McGee, here exorcising her dream pop demons.
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £5.99FLAC Download // £6.99
A tumultuous bed of wide basses and churned rhythms for Youngs' folk-learned croon.
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £1.70FLAC Download // £2.50
A righteous pick for anyone looking to travel further than their Emeralds or Oneohtrix records will allow...
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's masterpiece from 2007, now with two extra tracks. Highly Recommended.
MP3 Download // £5.99
FLAC Download // £6.99Root Strata
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Lushly pastoral neo-kosmische/new age ambience for the lovers.
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Arrestingly enigmatic debut solo from Elm and Barn Owl guitarist Jon Porras.
Root Strata
MP3 Download // £6.99FLAC Download // £8.99
Glistening kosmiche/synth music minimalism from Arrow Kleeman, who is also known as Lilienthal.
Southern Lord Recordings
2LP // £27.99
Now available on a deluxe, limited double vinyl pressing.
Important Records
LP // £16.49
Disciplined, slow motion sludge-drone on Important, with two bass players for extra low-end presence…
2LP // £16.49
