object impermanence

Princess Peter - SEAL OF APPROVAL

SLOW DOWN

the past is fading

Holy Mother – © ⓟ 2014 Seth Faergolzia, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Moss that creeps, growing slowly 'cross a stone
Creepy moss, draping over everywhere it can
The moss is draping over everything it can
It can because its nature says it can

Long ago in distant lands across galaxies
Flew a stone, came to rest on lonely planet
Soon made home and grew from nearly nothing into life
A home to possibility 

A place called Earth, like no other
A place where endless beauty shifts and shapes with life
Some call it our Holy Mother
She holds and guides her children into endless light
Ah

Take a peek, a look inside a history
Heaven speaks when one has open ears to nature
Moss will creep and crawl across the face of Mother
How she laughs as life will tickle her

She is kind and grants the gifts up from her bosom
Peace of mind when one dwells within her garden
What you'll find inside her mystic thinking there is moss
A moss that's creeping over everything

A place called Earth, like no other
A place where endless beauty shifts and shapes with life
Some call it our Holy Mother
She holds and guides her children into endless light
Ah

Holy Mother

Teton's debut album Candy Spelling hits the world via Pretty Purgatory on July 21st. Pre-order it at bit.ly/candyspelling.

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Teton is the brain-child of Elizabeth Lovell and Sam Klickner, both raised in small, rural towns in Southern Illinois. Klickner, a music school drop-out, primarily self-taught performer and improviser, has recorded five records as the drummer of Chicago’s Wei Zhongle, while Lovell, a classically-trained pianist, fronted various outfits in the midwestern DIY universe, eventually cutting her teeth in composition, while working on a research facility in Antarctica. Soon after their romantic collision, the duo relocated to Portland, Oregon to join bassist and fellow, former-Illinoisan Jef Hill. Following a year of intense rehearsals, the band recorded their debut with long-time friend and collaborator David Allen (of International Anthem) and began touring the West Coast. 

The band’s debut, Candy Spelling, is a six song collection of contrapuntal art-pop that synthesizes the disparate traditions of 80’s icons like Kate Bush and Prefab Sprout with the dualistic prog of bands such as Magma and Henry Cow, while taking notes from medieval music and contemporary chamber music. Across lyrical themes of companionship, labor, birth, and the manifestation of intent, Teton delivers a specific sort of abstraction; one which is physically embodied in the album’s artwork (designed by Klickner), with it’s surrealist figurative and architectural forms, painted in dark gradients of burgundies and purples. 

Candy Spelling is a flowing Dalinian songscape, salted with intertwining melodicism that is rarely found in a power trio. Throughout, it's hard to believe that the sounds are being made live by only three people, as the music delivers five musical voices. Lovell delivers vocal lines polyrhythmically against her own quilted, double synth accompaniment. Klickner and Hill provide an erected, powerful back bone — a detailed trellis of rhythm and counter melodies. Of course, there are momentary guest features on the album from Portland luminary Andrew Auble and Wei Zhongle clarinetist John McCowen.

Teton’s intensely personal sound is perhaps partly the result of the couple’s lifestyle as artist polymaths: Lovell is a clothing and fiber artist; Klickner, a filmmaker and visual artist. Their combined aesthetic across forms is uncanny, dreamlike, and mystifying, with rich dichotomies at play. The songs are both masculine and feminine; delicate and aggressive; welcoming and merciless. Within these 25 minutes of music resides a fantasy world, sustained on dream-logic and chaotic symbolism. Teton embodies their mountainous namesake —a bold and towering ecosystem of taught, woven voices charged with an emotional richness found only in the intimacy of lovers.

Teton - Strike It Rich

From The album Horse Head Bookends by Gel-Sol, available as both vinyl and download via Verses Records. Vinyl pre-order available 8.19 at www.versesrecords.com/store/p12/Hors…re-_Order.html , digital pre-order available at https://versesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/horse-head-bookends , both available at Bandcamp on 9.19.17.
Video-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ6zuJKLE90

Horse head Bookends

The Magician's Sojourn

Gel-Sol : The Magician's Sojourn

Somnaut was an experimental electronics/voice duo in NYC in the late 90s. The intersection of science and art was Somnaut's playground. Jane Lecroy, a performance poet & singer, brought her unique vision to raw-yet-beautiful electronic & electro-acoustic constructions by David Last.

In this live track from 1997 you can hear the mysterious, experimental but fun vibe of Somnaut performances, which were always bathed in the light of video projections by Aaron Harder.

Somnaut

Dreamy For Cassini (Live 1997) by Somnaut (Jane Lecroy + David Last)

Running Through with the Sadness

On the NuDroid Musik album released Nov. 2nd
Purchase: http://www.amazon.com/Nudroid-Musik/dp/B0045NALHK
Produced by JasWho?
Written by JasWho?, Atiim Chenzira, & Sun Ru

Atiim's Lyrics: http://aclyrics.blogspot.com/2010/09/right-now.html

Running Through with the Sadness

Imaginator Records