Assembled Minds' second album 'Creaking Haze & Other Rave Ghosts' by Matthew J Saunders.

(c) Patterned Air Recordings

08 There Was A Wrong Doing

07 Through The Morris Light

06 Morris Horror

05 Summoning Of The Rave

04 Come Meet Us In The Grotto

03 At The Hands Of The WoodlandGovernor

02 The Face In The Mirror Is Not Mine

01 Mirror Dances

The Assembled Minds is the recording project of Matthew J Saunders (Magnétophone (4AD), R.E.E.L., The Twilight Sequence, Veil). Traditional analogue studio rituals, sci-fi dreaming, arcane LED-lit magical practices and all nature of wyrd wild sonic tom foolery.

The first lp, 'Tomorrow Curves', is a collection of analogue sci-fi soundtracks and voltage controlled incantations.

The second album, 'Creaking Haze and Other Rave Ghosts', is an invocation of hazy horror raves from the mists of the collective mind. Here's what Simon Reynolds said about it:

"Differently great. Rippling reverb-misted pianos and a sleepwalk trance of drum machines and pumping bass – the vibe is much more Ultramarine’s 'British Summertime' than ardkore. And there’s this sound that’s in most of the tracks: a high-pitched “peaky” timbre that is… ecstatically edging into dissonance, is the best I can do by way of describing it. It reminded me of what Trevor Horn once told me: his belief that great albums have the same sound running all the way through – his example was The Blue Nile’s Hats – so that every track is a chip off the same lustrous block, refracting slightly different. "

Enter our world, wide eyed and workshop grimy...

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