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Callum Higgins and John Powell-Jones come together for a vinyl release of their newest exploration of ambient space and acoustic resonance on Sacred Tapes. 

Kicking off 'No Gods, No Masters' is an organic ambient drone, beautifully accentuated with delayed plucked strings and overwhelming tape delay. Cut from the same cloth as avantbient masters Set Fire To Flames, this incorporates the juxtaposition of frazzled electronic blooms and atmospheric percussives (wooden strikes, cavernous echoes and hissing vactrols). Through the relatively subtle (albeit covertly menacing) introduction, this piece twists and turns into a fractured exporation of space, filling the near-field with churning industrious drone and the peripheries with sycopated saturated echoes and palpable impacts. 

'Serpent' is a much more eerie affair, trading the distorted ambience of the previous offering for an insectile chattering creeping around some infrequent string plucks and plectrum scrapes. Never reaching the heights of growth as the previous piece, but offering a more varied sound palette highlights the skills present to create something with such restraint as to eschew melody, but developmental enough to form into a fully realised image.

Final piece and closing barrage 'River Of Sin' is in many ways a resolution of the previous offerings, winding from a top-heavy cosmic solar-flare squealing through shaped feedback and glassine echoes into a cataclysmic culmination of the resolute dissonance of the opening phrases to a flat-line closing squall.  






STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A brittle and organic journey through haunted basements, deserted woods and to the unforgiving space. Subtly spooky, disconcertingly visceral and entirely bracing. Unsettling ambient bliss.

TRACK LISTING

1. NO GODS, NO MASTERS 20:24
2. SERPENT 14:08
3. RIVER OF SIN 05:10

Swaggerjack return with their second album of improvised free-noise. Big Church OST is an accidental soundtrack to a non-existent film. Recorded in one session in August of 2014, this second outing for the duo shows a more refined sound built on an increasingly connected partnership and honed by the progression of both John Powell-Jones and Callum Higgins in their numerous other musical projects.

Big Church OST arrives ahead of their week long residency for Samarbeta which will see Swaggerjack produce an album likely to be unheard by the most, as the single dubplate made will be archived in the British library. For more information on this check out www.samarbeta.co.uk

Recorded at Islington Mill in August 2014
Mastered by Callum Higgins

*All tapes dubbed at home*
credits
released 05 January 2015

The follow up EP to Yes Blythe's Debut album "Keep The Faith" first saw the light of day as a short run cassette release on the Gnod tape imprint Tesla Tapes. "Initiate Screen Prevails" is finally being given a vinyl release on Sacred Tapes. Not only the first Vinyl release for the label, kicking off an offshoot SAC-R series, but also a first vinyl release for the artist.

This 30 minute EP ranges from subtle layered field recordings to intense crushing noise created with depth and detail. The record comes packaged with printed fabric insert and risograph'd recycled card info sheet.


TRACK LISTING

A. Travels Nerves To Freedom
B. At Labyrinth Borne-Sun

Moskenstraumen, Christopher William Anderson’s first and only release under his own name, sees him saying goodbye to the electric guitar as the instrument of choice for solo compositions.

The tracks were crafted using a Gretsch Duo Jet and numerous tape and digital delays/loopers into something far removed from the sound of the source.

Originally self-released 3 years ago almost to the day and sold in painstakingly produced hand crafted packaging only a few were lucky enough to grab a copy. Now we are incredibly privileged to help "Moskenstraumen" see the light of day again amongst the increasing ranks of Sacred Tapes releases.

Written and recorded by Christopher Anderson between 2009-11


TRACK LISTING

An End To Calm
Blood & Salt
Moskenstraumen
Eye
The Last Refracted Light


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