Name: Bolan in the Bardo by Goats Peak
Duration: 3 min 49 s
Description: This memorial single dives deeper into dub-inflected abstraction and swirling Fourth World textures. Tracked in the aftermath of loss these are good and perfect wishes for easy transitions. The memory of Bolan is a comfort to those he knew. The other is for the memory of Bradi - exemplary support during perilous time(s) (per Swogger).

Artwork by an anonymous friend <3

Tenor Sax with Reverb
Ant. Petrof Piano
Classical Guitar with Chorus + Reverb

In Dm

Instructions for Falling Upwards

Selective Process

Between Alignment Emission

This memorial single dives deeper into dub-inflected abstraction and swirling Fourth World textures. Tracked in the aftermath of loss these are good and perfect wishes for easy transitions. The memory of Bolan is a comfort to those he knew. The other is for the memory of Bradi - exemplary support during perilous time(s) (per Swogger).  

Bolan in the Bardo

This 3-track EP sharpens the Goats Peak palette, adding vocals and post-punk textures to the disconcerting mélange of dark psychedelia, early industrial and post-punk. The swirling horns, reeds, and analog synths remain, but the tone is less abstract, more confrontational. “The Hem” grasps with a dirty hand. “Year of the Brain” finds a worm at the heart of science. Closing track “Meet the Monster,” spins a lurching organ motif into a twitchy, starless night with Beefheart interpolation.

Year of the Brain

Programmer is an exploration of the obscure but iconic sound of the Solton Programmer 24. A synthesizer referred to by some as the “Ultimate Italo Disco Machine”.

Vancouver’s CORBEN pairs this strange and beautiful machine with a Mellotron and a Roland SVC-350 vocoder to great effect. The result is a haunting and dream-like suite of music that lends itself well to solitude and other inward-facing experiences.

Available digitally and on limited edition cassette tape September 4, 2020.

Pre-order: https://pacificrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/programmer

Programmer

CORBEN - Programmer

Memory Lane Trip Hop and  Mix

Goats Peak is the latest work of Weird North legend Jack Balles - best known for his time with Stagmummer (Sudden Death Records, No List) and sessions with studio masters like Steve Albini and Gggarth.  From a log cabin made of earth and wood in the interior Okanagan (BC) mountains, Goats Peak tracks the damp forest between dub, leftfield and industrial with a queasy pastoralism of warped wind and burnt electronics.  25 years of biting the ample. Test your drugs.

Bolan in the Bardo

Goats Peak

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