Le Révélateur - Extreme Events
Edition of 300 LP Digital Download

WO Release Date: August 22, 2014 
US Release Date: September 2, 2014

Five years after founding Le Révélateur, Montreal-bred musician Roger Tellier-Craig returns to Root Strata with Extreme Events, a collection of dense sonic studies that betray a futuristic and timeless beauty. Alongside collaborator Sabrina Ratté, who creates the project’s videos and live visuals, Le Révélateur operates at the ideological intersection of audio and visual, analog and digital, nostalgic and anticipatory, human and machine. Extreme Events is characterized by complex rhythmic asymmetry and twinkling aesthetic resonance – ultimately a prescient re-vision of hypothetical cyberpunk futures realized in the desert of digital decay and burgeoning artificial ecologies.

Cut and mastered by Helmut Erler at D&M, Berlin. Distributed by Morr Music.

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Afterimage Selves video
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Le Révélateur - Afterimage Selves

Le Révélateur - Stream Terminal

Christina Carter - Masque Femine
Edition of 500 LP / Digital Download

US Release Date: November 11, 2014
EU Release Date: November 7, 2014

Masque Femine should be regarded as a total work - much like a film, a ballet, a building, or, an altarpiece - rather than as an album of individual songs. And, its fundamental subject should not be understood to be romantic love.

Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice, guitar (both electric and acoustic), piano, and keys. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures; re-contextualized certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group's music; and recently, investigated 'the song' as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on 'the word'- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretions of the work of other lyricists.

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Christina Carter - Last Night When We Were Young

Christina Carter - Quiet Nights

Sean McCann - Ten Impressions for Piano & Strings
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: Jan 16, 2015
US: Jan 20, 2015

Realized over a four year period, Sean McCann’s Ten Impressions for Piano & Springs is a document of transition and maturation. Slow moving cloud forms over corporeal landscapes, these impressions whisper of McCann’s imminent & decisive lean towards classical & avant-garde musics, culminating in 2013’s Music for Private Ensemble on his own imprint, Recital. Less a final statement on ambient music, more a meditation on change, discovery and process.

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Sean McCann - Sense Of Life

Sean McCann - Guardian

Recorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum’s (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80’s centric production, montage and style. Recalling such luminaries as Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Harold Faltemeyer, Craig Safan and such lofty houses as KPM, Bruton and Parry with nods to oddballs from Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Blum still manages to be forcefully yet effortlessly unique. Inspired by countless soundtrack compilations and blog mixes of rare, foreign library and VHS music, Vision Heat varies in production style and technique as if it were the definitive archive - deftly genre skipping from moody sci-fi suspense, incidental queues and dramatic scores to uplifting electro-boogie, synthpop and cinematic arrangements. Ultimately so much more than an homage, The Chosen Themes are a subtle and skilled conjuring of a full spectrum re-imagined past. Part one of a two volume set.
Exclusive video stills provided by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.

Vision Heat - Ginergy

Vision Heat - Run With The Foxx

Vision Heat - Fast Teddy

Byron Westbrook - Precipice
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: October 2nd, 2015

Precipice is Byron Westbrook’s first long playing record under his given name. Operating under the handle Corridors for many years, Byron has established a reputation for creating immersive multi-channel, site specific live experiences using sound, image and light. Precipice expounds upon these ideas as a collection of approaches to texture, landscape, perception of time, and the potential for sound to generate visual space. Like climbing a column which inexplicably leads to a plateau of glass, the topography above and below visible in crystal clear relief.

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Byron Westbrook - Spectral Ascension (Edit)

Byron Westbrook - Prismatic (Edit)

Vision Heat - The Chosen Themes: Program II
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: November 27, 2015

Recorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum’s (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80’s centric production, montage and style. Recalling such luminaries as Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Harold Faltemeyer, Craig Safan and such lofty houses as KPM, Bruton and Parry with nods to oddballs from Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Blum still manages to be forcefully yet effortlessly unique. Inspired by countless soundtrack compilations and blog mixes of rare, foreign library and VHS music, Vision Heat varies in production style and technique as if it were the definitive archive - deftly genre skipping from moody sci-fi suspense, incidental queues and dramatic scores to uplifting electro-boogie, synthpop and cinematic arrangements. Ultimately so much more than an homage, The Chosen Themes are a subtle and skilled conjuring of a full spectrum re-imagined past. Part two of a two volume set.

Exclusive video stills provided by Jennifer Juniper Stratford. jjstratford.com/

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Vision Heat - Manhunter

Vision Heat -  Tonight's The Night

Matt Carlson / Michael Stirling / Doug Theriault - Aakash
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: April 29, 2016

Aakash marks the debut recording of Portland, OR based trio Matt Carlson, Michael Sterling and Doug Theriault. Derived from live improvisational performances, Root Strata veteran Carlson’s (of Golden Retriever) rich analog synthesizers are joined by real time processing of Sterling’s (a disciple of late Hindustani Master Pandit Pran Nath and student of Terry Riley) lilting voice and the idiosyncratic guitar work and electronics of Theriault. Dipping into a kind of liminal void, Aakash isn’t just cosmic raga. It’s a subtle journey, micro visions of inner terrain.

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Matt Carlson, Michael Stirling, Doug Theriault - Clouds Into Midnight (Edit)

Matt Carlson, Michael Stirling, Doug Theriault - Mishra Bhairavi (Edit)

Jean-Sébastien Truchy - Transmission in an Expanse of Firelight, Hear Me!
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: September 16, 2016

A linchpin of Montreal’s experimental community for over two decades, Jean-Sébastien Truchy has performed with Fly Pan Am, Set Fire to Flames and Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche among countless others as well as co-running the presently defunct Los Discos Enfantasmes label. After a string of tape releases on LDE, Digitalis, Sic Sic & others, Transmission in an Expanse of Firelight, Hear Me! is Truchy’s first proper full length record. Combining elements of Musique concrète, field recordings, plaintive MIDI strings and emotive vocals Transmission… unfolds like a stage production or opera in which all the characters are refracted into one. In his own words “I try to look at sounds and structures as neutral elements that have not yet been categorized by preconceived thoughts, judgement and/or taste - to apply the idea of emptiness to sounds, structure and form.”

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Jean-Sébastien Truchy - ...You Shine In The Sky Of My Mind (Edit)

No UFO's - NU Lp for RS
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: February 10, 2017

NU Lp for RS marks No UFO’s first proper LP (as Soft Coast was considered a demo) and having been diagnosed with Carpal tunnel syndrome, will likely be the last of its kind. Eschewing the heavy gestures of today’s musical zeitgeist, Nu LP… finds Konrad Jandavs utilizing tape machines, foley libraries and rare synthesizers / amplifiers to construct an oblique sound world evoking reception, perception and agency. Of Nu LP…, Konrad states “I was trying hard to avoid making another 3 Feet High And Rising and that basically meant I was making a De La Soul Is Dead, but in the end it seems clear to me that I skipped ahead and made a Buhloone Mindstate.”

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No UFO's - PCM Track II

No UFO's - Classic NU Shit

No UFO's - NU Lp for RS
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: February 10, 2017

NU Lp for RS marks No UFO’s first proper LP (as Soft Coast was considered a demo) and having been diagnosed with Carpal tunnel syndrome, will likely be the last of its kind. Eschewing the heavy gestures of today’s musical zeitgeist, Nu LP… finds Konrad Jandavs utilizing tape machines, foley libraries and rare synthesizers / amplifiers to construct an oblique sound world evoking reception, perception and agency. Of Nu LP…, Konrad states “I was trying hard to avoid making another 3 Feet High And Rising and that basically meant I was making a De La Soul Is Dead, but in the end it seems clear to me that I skipped ahead and made a Buhloone Mindstate.”

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No UFO's - Apocryphal Blues

Hisato Higuchi - Kietsuzukeru Echo / 消え続けるエコー
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: April 21, 2017

Kietsuzukeru Echo / 消え続けるエコー (loosely translated to ‘Disappearing Echo’) is Tokyo, Japan stalwart Hisato Higuchi’s second offering for Root Strata - his first being an a cappella track for the Tsuki No Seika 7” series in 2011. After over two decades of releases on P.S.F., Family Vineyard, Apollolaan and a steady string on his own imprint Ghost Disc, Hisato’s latest effort marks a stylistic, yet finely distilled, return to his earliest live sets from the mid 1990’s - documented in the P.S.F. record 初期作品集 Early Works. Conjuring an incredibly intimate space with only guitar and voice, the home-recorded Kietsuzukeru Echo is illuminated from within. Eight songs of soliloquy and scene, eight songs that disappear.

http://rootstrata.com/release/RS103

Hisato Higuchi - Yomigaeru Uta / 蘇る歌

Hisato Higuchi - Itami Hakobu Utsuwa / 痛み運ぶ器

Kimi No Nawa Hikoki / 君の名は飛行機

Roe Enney - Glare
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: June 2, 2017

A somnambulant journey through psychedelic bedroom fantasy-scapes, Glare is Roe Enney’s first proper LP after only a few under-the-radar cassette releases on Phaserprone, Discriminate and Piero since 2011. Recorded over the last couple years, Glare unfolds like a manifesto on the devolution of communication. An experiment of thresholds: electronic, political, poetical, Roe Enney touches on the likes of Tara Cross or Anne Clark but only briefly before hurtling into a subterranean world of closed-off obsessions.

“The electronic artist is always enmeshed in a battle of thresholds. What does one do? This is because she, the electronic spirit, is always in the process of change. This spirit is never stable, it is tenuous. It is a moving hierarchy, a royal island with a v. real topography, with its own guard, observation deck, casino. The music on this record firmly pledges allegiance to this island, and yet it is out somewhere on the shore, perhaps ‘dreaming of elsewhere.’ Yet one cannot help what one is. Perhaps the record is cast-off.”

Mastered by Sean McCann; Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

http://rootstrata.com/release/RS105

Roe Enney - Ouroboros

Roe Enney - Comme Everyone

Roger Tellier Craig - Instantanés
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: September 29, 2016

Montreal stalwart Roger Tellier Craig (of Le Révélateur / Fly Pan Am) returns to Root Strata under his given name to offer a stunningly abstract pair of compositions indicating a severe departure from his earlier work. While Instantanés might at first evoke Acousmatic and Musique concrète traditions, the two side-long snapshots Roger presents feel far more spontaneous and rustic than those trappings might suggest, or as Luc Ferrari would say “a concrète music of the poor.” A studied meditation over 10 years in the making, Instantanés is a surreal mix of the familiar and the alien, a lush garden indifferent to human cultivation or experience.

Mastered by Rashad Becker; Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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Roger Tellier Craig - Soleil et chaleur dans le parc (Edit)

Roger Tellier Craig - Truth Mining (Edit)

TINT - Ricochet Screen
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: March 9, 2018

Ricochet Screen is the first proper LP from New York based TINT (aka Zane Morris). Encompassed as an overview of his solo recordings dating as far back as 2007, Ricochet Screen unfolds as a storied arc on the obsessiveness of composition, conception and mechanism. Culled from ad hoc recordings in vacant industrial buildings, lunchroom cafeterias and bedroom studios, the record functions as a meditative associative collage regarding a rebounding from omnipresent glass monitors, intrusive security measures and indeterminate barriers.

Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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TINT - Six Sides

TINT - Earth D423

Digital: https://kagami-studio.bandcamp.com

Kagami - Kagami
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download
Worldwide: May 11, 2018

Kagami is the duo of Jared Blum (Vision Heat, Gigante Sound) and Maxwell August Croy (En, Root Strata, Empire of Signs). Their eponymous debut, recorded between 2014 and 2017, finds the pair navigating a bracingly wide range of niches with aplomb and precision. Evoking summertime ambience, widescreen electronics, anthemic pop instrumentals and windswept romantic gestures, Kagami is a charming and dramatic record that at times recalls the soundtrack to some lost title from Nintendo’s golden age or perhaps a spiritual successor to the miniatures of Yasuaki Shimizu’s Music for Commercials.

Featuring Jonathan Sielaff of Golden Retriever on bass clarinet and Adam Hill on double bass. Original cover art by Brenna Murphy, layout by Konrad Jandavs.

Mastered by Helmut Erler; Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin.

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Harold Budd - Templar

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