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Skrow046: The Twin Commandments - Drift Music
The Twin Commandments - Drift Music
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Continuing in the spirit of vault releases, here we have Dan Lillie, aka The Sticky Situation, in a far different incarnation. Written and recorded some 8 or 9 years ago, these are mellow, pensive ambient pieces which exhibit a pervasive minimalist influence - Steve Reich’s phasing technique is experimented with quite a bit throughout, for example. This is, perhaps, particularly notable on “One Plus One Plus One,” which deconstructs a famous riff from a certain ubiquitous metal band.
In all, this release gives us 45 minutes of melancholic atmosphere perfect for a quiet afternoon, or evening, or whatever. Put some headphones on and drift away.
Tracklisting:
- The Opening Up Chord (3:17)
- One Plus One Plus One (4:29)
- C+Em+G+Bm (5:44)
- 3+4+5 (13:01)
- Beating Sines+Clouds+Birds+Piano (19:30)
Skrow044: Dongle Doc - Ça gratte
Dongle Doc - Ça gratte
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Skrow! dutifully and happily welcomes another newcomer to the fold, French improvisational guitar researcher Dongle Doc. Ça gratte is a 35 minute psychedelic journey into a uniquely organic atmospheric experimental cybermetropolis, in which lurks twisted jazz-blues alleycats, vaguely rock-scented ruffians, seedy semi-sapient drone-noise night clubs, and other sonic creatures too wonderfully terrible to describe.
Enjoy carefully in your favorite aural apparatus today for the low low price of nothing! Happy trails.
Tracklisting:
- Raphael track 1 (9:33)
- Impro Guitare (3:47)
- Impro Guitare 2 (3:27)
- Raphael track 2 (12:26)
- La cinquième rose (1:48)
- Peterpan (2:00)
- Reggae (2:54)
Skrow040: Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking
Guitar Bastard - Planeswalking
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Believe it or not, the perpetually delayed first installment of the Skrow! label compilation is officially coming out within a matter of days. Yeah, I don’t believe it either. It’s true though. Srsly. Meanwhile, feast your ears on the latest from our good friend Guitar Bastard…
One continuous 45-minute aural sphere of influence within which one may find themselves drawn, willing or not, into higher dominions of reasoning. An incessant expanse of subtly fluctuating drones enveloping a limitless void of mystique and otherness.
Yeah. Headphones, bro.
Tracklisting:
- Planeswalking (45:03)
Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky
earthbreather - Forget the Sky
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With great pride do we present the debut of experimental, free-genre duo earthbreather. A collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse, this non-geographically proximal pairing came to be, as these things are, via the internet. In late 2008, Saffron Slumber began “remixing” by way of manipulation and de/reconstruction some brief guitar clips sent to him by Ellipse. The latter, as well, began to perform similar mutations upon pieces created by the former. As this process continued, the songs would evolve into something entirely new, and the process itself became progressively more collaborative. An unwritten manifesto took form between the two artists to ignore the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.
On Forget the Sky, earthbreather experiment with various aural textures and explore atmospheres dark and light, concrete and ethereal, consonant and dissonant, all in flowing and relatively structurally free compositional forms. The result is an album that is both cohesive and varied throughout its approximate 50 minute duration.
Headphones are suggested and encouraged. Please join us.
Tracklisting:
- Talk in Blue (10:34)
- Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
- Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
- Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
- Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
- Craters (7:52)
Skrow032: Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind’s Eye
Guitar Bastard - In the View of the Mind's Eye
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Hypnotic buzz and swirling ghostly tones, a vortex of haunting sound for one to fall into. One extended guitar-based soundscape from the aptly named Skrow! newcomer, known in other circles as shawn phase of temp sound solutions, who had this to say about the work:
“27 minutes of prepared guitar by yours truly. steinbererish koa/graphite into behringer v-amp2, operating table, fan/duster recorded/postrecorded directly to sony tc-570 3 head reel to reel and digital hdd simultaneously. monitored and recorded in stereo using univox/lafayette 80 watt quadraphonic hifi stereo system and randall 150w amp ran to a 4×12″ speaker to simulate stereo effects.
thanks to sony, sanyo fans, the luthier that made my guitar, the skrow family for embracing my weirder side.”
Dark meditations for dark minds. Headphones required.
Tracklisting:
- In the View of the Mind’s Eye (27:00)
Skrow028: Ellipse - After the Sun
Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
Skrow003
Ellipse - This Is Not a Straight Line
One electric guitar, infinite delay. 9 improvised loop experiments made over two quiet days in August. Lovely cover art has been painted by Kevin Stephens.
Tracklisting:
- A Vascular Discourse (4:27)
- Harmonium (5:19)
- Glass Fortress (8:24)
- Undulations (3:45)
- Naked Under the Stars (7:31)
- Glacial Velocity (11:34)
- Eyes Like Rain (8:15)
- The Human Orrery (5:49)
- Bathe In Light (8:38)
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