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Release Date: June 24, 2014
Contact: Bill (at) teamclermont (dot) com

Label: Cloud Recordings
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From the mixed-up files of W. Cullen Hart comes "Mosaics Within Mosaics" by The Circulatory System, a suitcase assemblage for 26 musicians, available June 24th on limited edition double LP, compact disc, and mp3 via Cloud Recordings or immediate streaming during your next convenient lucid dream cycle. Constructed by drummer Derek Almstead from over a decade's worth of Hart's intricate recordings and experiments, Mosaics Within Mosaics is a new phase Circulatory System album, because they all are. But it's also a highly traditional interconnected/musique concrète-dappled/post-SMiLE/harmony-drenched/imagistic/collaborative home-recorded entheogenic Wall of Sound fantasia from one of the form's inventors and unceasing innovators. 

Following The Circulatory System (2001) and Signal Morning (2009), Mosaics Within Mosaics carries on the quietly audacious work of Athens, Georgia experimental pop figurehead W. Cullen Hart, co-founder of the beloved Olivia Tremor Control. The third album under The Circulatory System flag comes, as always, draped with Hart's layered paintings, a creative voice that has evolved in almost exact parallel to his music. The back of the set likewise comes sealed with the small logo belonging to the Elephant 6 Recording Co., another Hart design, and the album's credits contain many of the musicians that familiar logo has come to imply.    

Between the band's signature double-drum blasts, the mosaicscapes are detailed by a series of intimate small ensembles drawn from the extended community orchestra of Hart's longtime collaborators, including woodwind trios and quartets by Olivia Tremor Control compatriot John Fernandes (Old Smokey, Dreamboat), a wollensack balloon solo by Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), and contributions from Derek Almstead (Faster Circuits), Heather McIntosh (The Instruments), Peter Erchick (Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't), Eric Harris (Frosted Ambassador), AJ Griffin (Laminated Cat), Jeremy Barnes (Neutral Milk Hotel, Hawk and a Hacksaw), and others. 

Alongside Hart's open-hearted wonderings ("When You're Small"), Martian harmonies ("Neon Light"), comes a playfulness rarely visited since the early Olivia days ("Over Dinner the Cardinal Spoke"). With ever-shifting mixes built to highlight the many approaches to each piece, Mosaics Within Mosaics is perhaps the first album to capture the extra-dimensional scope of what it sounds like to be W. Cullen Hart. The album's 31 songs are prone to suddenly turning into songs in noun-form only, reassembling before one's ears into holographic self-revisions of themselves. All are sewn together by the title sequence of vignettes, a series of wordless Joseph Cornell-like puzzleboxes as beguiling and welcoming as anything in Hart's considerable catalogue.   

"Mosaics Within Mosaics" is a world to dive into with good headphones or from a comfortable spot (both physically and mentally) in the exact center of a well-apportioned stereo field. Arrangements spin into close detail, whirl through transparent layers of overdubs, and reveal cross-sections of drum parts, birds, tropical bells, reamplified feedback, air organ, tape loops, laughs, rocks, dripping water, kazoo, and _____. Listen closely, you might hear yourself.   

As always, The Circulatory System and their self-operated Cloud Recordings welcome all recordings of your dreams and other correspondence at PO Box 821, Athens, GA, 30603. 

Circulatory System - "Stars And Molecules"

From the album "Pacific Surf Line" on Alive Naturalsound :
www.alive-records.com/artist/gospelbeach/

GospelbeacH - Sunshine Skyway

Adventure

Days (2003 Remaster)

Knowing Me, Knowing You

Stefan Weich is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles. His music is a dreamy exploration of traditional music structures, alternative guitar tunings, and analog synthesis. Stefan has been writing and releasing music under several different names (Das Bowls, Chicle, Couch Baby, etc.) since he was thirteen, but Granite Prism is his debut as a solo artist. Sonically, Granite Prism is dense with lush synthesizers, reverberated guitars, terse bass lines, and vocals that fluctuate between a whisper and a croon. When Stefan was recording and tracking Granite Prism, he took inspiration from Deerhunter’s Microcastle and Wit’s End by Cass Mccombs. 

Granite Prism explores Weich’s feelings of loneliness, aimlessness in his quest for love and acceptance in the modern metropolis. Although these songs may come across as melancholic, there exists a duality within them that is humorous and optimistic. Ultimately, Granite Prism is an album for those who find themselves, or have found themselves, in a melancholy mood. It is not an album that will be blasting on someone’s speakers at a house party, but rather an album you’d listen to with headphones on the train to work, or when you’re stoned in a dark and damp cave. 

Stefan Weich - "Holy Nights"

Pale Lights 

Séance for Something	EP 

Mother Cries 
Girl In The Park 
Alone In This Room 
Sweetheart 

Recorded and mixed by Gary Olson at Marlborough Farms	studios, Brooklyn,	Spring, 2016.	Mastered by Ron Harrity at	Peapod Recordings, Portland, 

Pale	Lights on these recordings are 

Philip Sutton:	guitars, singing 
Andy Adler: lead guitars 
Maria Pace: bass guitars 
Lisa	Goldstein: drums 

Keyboards and saxophone played by	Kyle Foster
Harmonies by Suzanne Nienaber 
Piano swoops on Mother Cries by Gary Olson 
Thanks to Hamish	Kilgour for the tambourine on Mother Cries. 
Sleeve art by Kevin Alvir. 

Mother Cries is not her crying tears. 

All songs written by Philip Sutton © 
CAL006 
Calico Cat Records 2016 ©


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