[TLO13] Produced by Northwest luminary Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Wolves in the Throne Room, Akron/Family), Midday Veil’s second studio full-length THE CURRENT maintains the experimental intensity of the band’s acclaimed improvised releases while marking a distinctive return to songcraft. Featuring artwork and design by Robert Beatty.

FORMATS: CD, LP with download card, cassette with download card

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[TLO12] Hand-dubbed VHS compilation of all of Midday Veil’s official videos to date.

Features videos for Great Cold of the Night, Moon Temple, Choreia, Anthem and Asymptote (Part II).

Running time = 57 minutes. Hand silkscreened covers designed and printed by Emily. Edition of 50.

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[TLO11] Hazy, ethereal vocals and slow-building keyboard drones adorn spare, funereal drums on the latest full-length from A Story of Rats, the brainchild of Seattle-based multimedia artist Garek J. Druss. Vastness is Druss’s twelfth release as ASOR—including one previous full-length LP—and the first to incorporate live drums, performed by Andrew Crawshaw.

Recorded and mixed by Blake Green and mastered by James Plotkin. Featuring original artwork by Druss, hand screened by Crawshaw at Broken Press.

Edition of 300 LPs with download card. Digital download includes an exclusive remix of “Her Teeth are Nil” by AUTHOR & PUNISHER.

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PRESS:

“Vastness and the Inverse … is a crushing display of how heavy music can be without strictly being metal.”

- We Must Obey

“A STORY OF RATS deposit you in a cavernous, labyrinthine landscape which they lead you through with torchbearing hands over the course of two long pieces…Working with synth, vocals and drums primarily, the trio create so much with so little. There’s a mastery of atmosphere on this album. ”

- CVLT NATION

[TLO10] Improvised recordings made by Midday Veil inside the Integratron, an acoustically perfect wooden dome built with telepathic extraterrestrial guidance by George Van Tassel (1910-1978) atop a geomagnetic vortex in the Mojave desert. Mastered by Mell Dettmer.

Edition of 100 cassettes with download card.

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Review of INTEGRATRON from VICE Italy

“Midday Veil consistently produces some of the best experimental psychedelic music I’ve ever heard, always bending genres and minds at the same time. This new cassette, Integratron, promises to do that yet again, as it is a series of improvisations recorded in an acoustically perfect wooden dome situated on a geomagnetic vortex in the middle of the California desert. I honestly don’t know what could sound more perfect right now.”

-Hammer Smashed Sound

“Midday Veil make music the way this kind of music ought to be made…under the spell of whatever environment they find themselves. [...] The drumming and bass line and the guitar swells and even the occasional female chant all sound hypnotic, like they traded their own souls for others that night. It’s creepy how well it’s all pulled off.”

-Foxy Digitalis

“While listening to the songs, I went head first into an emotional roller coaster. At times, everything seemed eerily connected. The reverb within the dome creates an incredibly ambient harmony that seems to heal the body. But as the record progressed, I began to experience anxiety and fear creep over me…It really is one of those albums that submerges the listener without giving him much of a choice.”

- Sound Colour Vibration

[TLO 09] S/T debut full-length. Transcendental tribal-electro from Portland quintet Swahili.  Mastered by Pete Swanson.

Edition of 300 LPs with download card.

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PRESS:

“one of the most original and refreshing psychedelic projects I’ve heard in a while”

- Hammer Smashed Sound

“there is nothing about this music that is by the book. [...] The percussion beats you over the head while the synths sound like the end of the world. It’s a sonic fucking monument.”

-Experimedia

[TLO08] Debut full-length from Seattle heavy psych drifters. Dramatic, Morricone-tinged vistas, recorded by Jackson Long.

Edition of 100 cassettes with download card.

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“Scriptures feels like a 40-year trek through the desert (in a good way): parched, wandering instrumental rock, with guitar slides that sound like hawks diving.” – Seattle Weekly

“This tape is fraught with dramatics and gripping climaxes.  From track to track, you’ll feel yourself beaten and bloodied by its unrelenting crescendos and heavy emotiveness…It is an amazing journey…” – Foxy Digitalis

[TLO07] Debut full-length from Seattle dark folk shamans Geist & the Sacred Ensemble.  Recorded by Bobby Wane, mastered by Mell Dettmer.

Edition of 100 cassettes with download card.

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PRESS:

“This Seattle trio is creating dark, sinister, trembling earth ballads that have echoes of country evenings and haunted memories. Almost reminiscent of the earliest, best freak folk sounds of bands like Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, they would sound right at home on an Arthur comp in 2004 or around a Southwestern campfire in 1921.”

- Ari Spool, Impose Magazine

“…a snakey, earthy brand of mind food, best experienced after midnight in nature.”

- Dave Segal, The Stranger’s Line Out

“As a largely acoustic musical meditation on death and rebirth (various deaths and various rebirths, real and imagined, physical and psychological, to these ears), In Search of Fabled Lands resists easy categorization, at once skyward-gazing and planted firmly six feet underground. It’s an album that rewards the patient listener…”

- Revolt of the Apes

[TLO06] Debut studio full-length from Fungal Abyss, the psychedelic improv sister project of Seattle heavyweights Lesbian. Recorded by Nathan Smurthwaite at Uptone and mastered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios. Cover art by Darwin Rodriguez.

Edition of 250 cassettes with download card.

Fungal Abyss – “Arc of the Covenant,” from Bardo Abgrund Temple

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“Bardo Abgrund Temple might quite possibly be the best psychedelic rock CASSETTE this year. The sound is perfectly mixed – you won’t find a drop of lo-fi here, only beautifully (or maybe beatifically?) recorded drums, sharp guitars and thumping bass guitar (which doesn’t drown out other sounds, mind you). Here is some true psych from the true shamans for whom the psychedelic experience is serious business – those guys are not your usual nice “dudes-next-door” who just happen to play a bit “trippy” sounds during a band practice after Sunday school. These dudes are real fuckin’ psychonauts who know how to pack a punch.”
- Weed Temple

“first-rate modern psych rock by a group that knows how to walk the walk.”
- Cassette Gods

[TLO05] The latest installment in Midday Veil’s series of “Subterranean Ritual” improvised recordings, STRII is comprised of two haunting tracks recorded by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios.

Edition of 200 cassettes with download card.

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“The ‘improvised sound rituals’ featured on Midday Veil’s ‘Subterranean Ritual II’ shimmer and sway in a slow motion psychedelic breeze. With droning analog synth, reverberant baritone guitar, and gentle tom strokes leading the way, Emily Pothast’s treated wordless vocals fill in the spaces between, creating a spectral ambience that recedes and crests to the group’s own highly attuned sense of time and (s)pace.”

- Cassette Gods

“Great synth emanations, very strong meditative ghostly/Eastern female vocalizations, invocative guitar summons, and truly climactic percussion.  [...] a build toward mystical and cosmic encounters that is very successful at trapping the ungraspable, making audibly incarnate the incorporeal.”

- Foxy Digitalis

“Sensual and mystical…the rhythms of a world gone completely mad for all the right reasons.”

- Tiny Mix Tapes

“…a seductive…slither down a nocturnal, minimal-rock alleyway. It’s all about restraint and exquisite sensual tension, radiating a subliminal shimmer on the horizon of your mind’s eye. Quelle spectral!”

- The Stranger

“Midday Veil…possess the spirits of the greats of psychedelic rock (Ash Ra Tempel, especially)”

- Weed Temple

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[TLO04] Portable Shrines Magic Sound Theatre Vol. 1

Double LP vinyl-only compilation curated by Portable Shrines, the DIY organization responsible for Seattle’s Escalator Festival (2009-2011). Features rare or exclusive tracks by eighteen garage, psych, and experimental bands from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Deluxe gatefold packaging features artwork by Aubrey Nehring, Emily Pothast, Garek Druss, Dewey Mahood and Steve Quenell. Mastered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios.

Limited edition of 1000 LPs with download card included.

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PRESS:

“…this sprawling double album collects together some of the finest bands currently working the Northwest offering an eclectic and often excellent overview of the scene. Limited to only 1000 copies, this lovingly compiled vinyl artefact is housed in a sleeve designed by the collective, the graphics matching the music, the whole thing proving that there is a place in the world for music that steps across boundaries and does what it damn well wants. Show some support and check it out.” – Simon Lewis, Terrascope UK

Tracklist:

1. Geist & the Sacred Ensemble – Circles
2. Plankton Wat – Astro Fields
3. Tiny Light – Shasta
4. Diminished Men – Oblong Trance
5. To Get Her Together – Gotta Make Your Hands Work
6. AFCGT – Clock
7. Midday Veil – Child of God
8. Brother Raven – Beast
9. Eternal Tapestry – Chrome Forest
10. Prince Rama – I am not invincible
11. Master Musicians of Bukkake – BAN A CHU*
12. Janina Angel Bath – Mudra
13. Blood Red Dancers – The Lamb
14. This Blinding Light – Soul On Fire
15. Night Beats – Thorns
16. Purple Rhinestone Eagle – Burn It Down
17. A Story of Rats – _/_ (revised)
18. Kinski – Whatever Happened to Madeleine Stowe

*Master Musicians of Bukkake track is exclusive to vinyl (not included in download).