[TLO10] Improvised recordings made by Midday Veil inside the Integratron, an acoustically perfect tabernacle situated atop a geomagnetic vortex in the California desert. Mastered by Mell Dettmer.

Edition of 100 cassettes with download card.

PREORDER COMING SOON

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

Edition of 300 LPs with download card.

Order LP now:

PRESS:

“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.”

-Brad Rose, 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.

Order cassette now:

[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.

Order cassette now:

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

Order cassette now:

PRESS:

“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.

Order cassette now:

PRESS:

“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

“…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!”

- Dave Segal, The Stranger’s Line Out

[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]

[TLO04] Portable Shrines Magic Sound Theatre Vol. 1

Double LP vinyl-only compilation curated by the Portable Shrines collective, the DIY organization that presents Seattle’s Escalator Festival. 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.

Order LP now:

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).

]]> http://records.translinguisticother.com/2010/09/22/tlo04-portable-shrines-magic-sound-theatre-vol-1/feed/ 7 http://records.translinguisticother.com/2010/08/22/tlo03-midday-veil-eyes-all-around/ http://records.translinguisticother.com/2010/08/22/tlo03-midday-veil-eyes-all-around/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:11:43 +0000 admin http://tlo.davidgolightly.net/?p=44

[TLO 03] Debut studio full-length from Midday Veil.  Produced and recorded by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios in West Seattle.

Order CD:

Order LP: (White vinyl, edition of 500 with free download card)

PRESS:

“gorgeousness wrapped up in a song [...] An album for repeated listens that rewards your efforts”
- Terrascope

“Eyes All Around is an album of perfect balance – a meditation on life and death, light and dark, ambient, near-subliminal blankets of sound and loud, jaw-clenching power. It is an album in the truest sense: oversized, vividly illustrated and providing an anthology of distinct, yet distinctly intertwined, songs, sounds and emotions.”

- Revolt of the Apes

“Eyes All Around is one of those ‘take you on a journey’ recordings; it’s a sensational round trip that’s both exceptionally harrowing and blissful, mystical and earthy, cerebral and sensual. Mind expansion rarely is this sexy.”
- Dave Segal,  The Stranger

Selected tracks from Eyes All Around by Midday Veil

[TLO02] Midday Veil – Subterranean Ritual

Improvised material channeled from the cosmic beyond in September 2009. Mastered by Mell Dettmer. Edition of 300 CDRs with handmade screenprinted covers.

OUT OF STOCK

Midday Veil – Subterranean Ritual (excerpts) by Midday Veil

[TLO01] Midday Veil – Queen of the Void

A pagan rock mini-epic unfolding over two expansive tracks recorded by Midday Veil at the Josephine in May 2009. Mixed and mastered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios. Edition of 300 CDRs with handmade screenprinted covers.

OUT OF STOCK