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Rock Sutra

    ‘Rock Sutra’ is the new space rock album from Sun Araw. ‘Roomboe’, the first track, illustrates this process. Experience is elastic. Humans alive right now tend to think there is some sort of ‘baseline’ experience of a thing, a room, a person, a feeling, some version we all agree on. This isn't true at all: experience is completely dependent on the quality of attention of the experiencer. There is a granularity to experience that, when tuned up, reveals deeper and deeper space inside of things. When you zoom in (by pure observation: by not-articulating, not-thinking), you create ‘room’, you make space. Just like that. For instance, ‘Roomboe’ has an extremely limited tonal framework; about 9 notes for the main guitar melody. As the guitar pushes against these melodic limitations with continually renewed attention and energy, it begins to create space around itself. And all of the sudden (at about 4:57), out of this constriction, space balloons up from everywhere simultaneously. ‘Roomboe’ is a clue about how to open a portal outwards into free space.

    ‘78 Sutra’ is about orbital motion. ‘Catalina’ is about taking a walk. ‘Arrambe’ is about a peculiar feeling you can get when you zoom in far enough. The music is offered in a spirit of generosity and adventure; it doesn’t stay put and it keeps zooming in to reveal more and more. The album was recorded live-to-midi with the band and this is the first Sun Araw album recorded like that. That band is Jon Leland on drums and percussion and Marc Riordan on synthesizers and Cameron Stallones on synthesizers and guitar and vocals.

    TRACK LISTING

    Roomboe
    78 Sutra
    Catalina Breeze
    Arrambe

    Sun Araw

    The Saddle Of The Increate

      This newest outing from cosmic nutcase Sun Araw is a psychedelic and avante-garde stroll through Americana, plucked strings and sudden turns of bold FM synthesis. Cosmic rhythms and field recording mix into a heady concoction of rhythms and drone on 'Lassie' while 'Orthrus' brings strangely blooming nu-jazz phrases into the same sonic space as jagged afrobeat percussives and skittering samples. A truly fascinating and strangely evocative set of Cowboy-themed (really) pieces, pay attention. 

      The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group

      The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group

        The Celebrate Music Synthesizer Group is a spicehunting collective formed in Rotterdam in the Summer of 2012, when multi-media cultural centre The Worm graciously opened their world class synthesizer studio to the current incarnation of Sun Araw Band. Cameron Stallones (Sun Araw, Magic Lantern), M. Geddes Gengras, Tony Lowe (CEO Raw Tings), and Butchy Fuego (San Gabriel, Boredoms) spent a week amidst Syrinx, Serge, and Surinamese victuals, tracking the self-titled double album live to 2-track.

        The parabolic fruits were charted, graphed, and have been presented on a double vinyl album.

        Sun Araw

        The Inner Treaty

          Cameron Stallones is an American musician who works under the name Sun Araw.

          Previously a member of the band Magic Lantern, he has released several albums of experimental music, including a collaboration with Jamaican reggae group The Congos.

          He has also worked as part of the Not Not Fun label ‘supergroup’ Vibes.

          ‘The Inner Treaty’ is the sixth album from Sun Araw, and it is available from Sun Ark Records via Drag City.

          Written, performed and produced by Cameron Stallones, and mastered by Sonic Boom.

          STAFF COMMENTS

          Darryl says: After his universally loved collaboration with the Congos, Cameron Stallones aka Sun Araw hits us with his sixth LP. 'The Inner Treaty' sees Stallones take us on an improvised and deeply cosmic trip to the outer limits of his mind, step inside if you dare!!


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