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Suishou No Fune & Numinous Eye - Black Flowers Of The Forest In The Cosmos
Essence 2013

Titanic collaboration between Tokyo’s dark and drifting psychedelic geniuses Suishou No Fune and San Francisco’s tripping, free jamming guitar/drums duo Numinous Eye, lead by no other than Mason Jones, long-running Japanese psych specialist and formerly of space rockers Subarachnoid Space.
Black Flowers Of The Forest In The Cosmos is what I would call a perfect meeting. Do not expect a random afternoon jam here, but a late night, perfectly crafted mystical experience.
The drums and sometimes two of the three guitars of the line-up set the rhythmic foundation for the dream-like, fragile abyssal cries and distressing harmonica of Pirako, while gentle echoes and languid strings, spaced-out distortion and amp hums float around all corners slowly building a rich and tranced-out world of droney magic.
Not ever so gently – loud and distorted amp-frying blissful crescendos are capable, at times, of bursting the air -, but always so hypnotic, you will be transported beyond traditional time/space conventions into the jammy, semi-motorik “Space Cruising” goodbye track to finally touch the black flowers of the cosmos.
Stunningly mastered by James Plotkin, Black Flowers Of The Forest In The Cosmos is presented on a beautiful and totally handmade and handpainted – yes, piece by piece, each copy is unique – sturdy textured tip-on gatefold packaging with an art technique mixing natural collages and watercolor. Includes a printed OBI strip.
This edition is limited to 170 copies only.

Suishou No Fune & Numinous Eye - We Are Looking For Space Mushrooms

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Mini Chorale

Track off of her forthcoming album Don't Weigh Down The Light, out June 23rd!

Meg Baird- "Counterfeiters"

Stolen Body Records is proud to announce the release of Al Lover – Cave Ritual Redux. Featuring remixes from Cave Ritual, new tracks, guest remixes and a remix of a Lumerians track. All out on a limited edition pressing of jelly swirl green.

Comes with download code.

‘It’s not often in today’s world that you come across an artist who has found a unique form of self-expression, seemingly operating on his or her own trajectory’ – The Quietus

‘Al Lover is most well-known for his ability to be a non-synthy/trappy/basic beat-maker, and instead a psych-producer, which is very rare. He is quite literally the only one who does what he does’ – Noisey

For those who aren’t already familiar with the workings of Al Lover then allow Stolen Body Records to introduce you to this exceptional, experimental producer from San Francisco – who has been gaining much notoriety for his melding of contemporary past garage and psychedelic rock into harsh yet spacey abrasive beats. Influenced as much by The 13th Floor Elevators as DJ Shadow, Al Combines crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples and layers of textured effects to create an unexplored path for psychedelic music, offering an earthy and loose approach that sounds more like you’re listening to a DMT fueled psych band than a beat made on an MPC.

Cave Ritual Redux exhibits Al Lover re-inventing his already unique style by adding a new dimension to his previous album Cave Ritual released at the end of last year. With this offering, Al Lover takes older ideas and reinvigorates them with new textures, layers, imagination and creates a new body of mind altering work.

Track Listing:
1. Cave Ritual (Holy Mountain Redux)
2. Broken Binary
3. Flight Patterns (Deconstructed Drone Redux)
4. Lumerians – Hook For An Eye (Al Lover Reinterpretation)
5. Laboratory Broadcast In Stereo
6. Genesis Porridge (Heart Chakra Redux)
7. Yoko Ono as Martian Landscape
8. Brian Jonestown Masochist (Anton Newcombe Reinterpretation)

Al Lover - Brian Jonestown Masochist (Anton Newcombe Reinterpretation)

Al Lover - Broken Bianary

Floating Points - Elaenia from the album Elaenia out now via Pluto.
Hugh Cornwell - Hot Can On A Tin Roof from the album The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell out now via Invisible Hands.
Robot Koch - Care (ft. Julien Marchal) from the album Hypermoment out now via Monkeytown.
Sopwith Camel - Fozon from the album YAORcht Rock out now via Festival.
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint - Fast (Movement 3) from the album AOR Breaks out now via Festival.

SOPWITH CAMEL- Fozon

From the album Fractures: 
Pre-order 30th May 2016. Released 13th June 2016. 

Audiological exploration by Sproatly Smith.

Further details: 
ayearinthecountry.co.uk/fractures-dawn-night-editions-pre-order-release-dates/ 

Fractures audiological contents created by Circle/Temple, Sproatly Smith, Keith Seatman, Polypores, Listening Center, The British Space Group, The Hare And The Moon ft Alaska/Michael Begg, Time Attendant, The Rowan Amber Mill, A Year In The Country and David Colohan. 


Notes and Scribings: 
Fractures is a gathering of studies and explorations that take as their starting point the year 1973; a time when there appeared to be a schism in the fabric of things, a period of political, social, economic and industrial turmoil, when 1960s utopian ideals seemed to corrupt and turn inwards. 

As a reaction to such, this was a possible high water mark of the experimentations of psych/acid folk, expressions of eldritch undertones in the land via what has become known in part as folk horror and an accompanying yearning to return to an imagined pastoral idyll. 

Looking back, culture, television broadcasts and film from this time often seem imbued with a strange, otherly grittyness; to capture a sense of dissolution in relation to what was to become post-industrial Western culture and ways of living. 

Such transmissions and signals viewed now can seem to belong to a time far removed and distant from our own; the past not just as a foreign country but almost as a parallel universe that is difficult to imagine as once being our own lands and world. 

Fractures is a reflection on reverberations from those disquieted times, taking as its initial reference points a selected number of conspicuous junctures and signifiers: Delia Derbyshire leaving The BBC/The Radiophonic Workshop and reflecting later that around then “the world went out of time with itself”. Electricity blackouts in the UK and the three day week declared. The Wickerman released. The Changes recorded but remained unreleased. The Unofficial Countryside published. The Spirit Of Dark And Lonely Water released.

Audiological Transmission #21​/​52​​: Fractures - The Land Of Green Ginger - Sproatly Smith

A project, dedicated to bring the non-mainstream pieces from the Turkish Rock History into light with unique art works.

Illustration: Aytur Şahinbay


BAND:
Feridun Hürel: Vocal, guitar-saz
Onur Hürel: Bass guitar
Haldun Hürel: Drums


"All music rights belong to their rightful owners."

3 Hürel - Haram (1972)

Kuula

SubArachnoid Space - Shut inside

Adventures in Audio, hand-picked audio gems at fair trade to the artist. 

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