Showing posts with label Moon Glyph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon Glyph. Show all posts

555 "Nine Gates" (Moon Glyph)



Shimmering synths and computer gloop-beats. Space jams. New-Age healing at the chilled-out dance party. Taking a computerized elevated train in the cartoon future. Odwalla commercial jammers, waiting for seating at the Rainforest Cafe. The computer is bored and calculating jammers for you.

Things were really upbeat, but now chilling out quite a bit. Good variety. Lots going on, but everything definitely fits together very nicely. Have I mentioned shimmering yet? Lots of computery shimmering, definitely a theme here. Sick percussion sounds. Electronic and computery.

This one is synth and just a kick drum sound giving the pulse. Plenty of googling and gurgling and, of course, shimmering. Speaking of Google, Google has just informed me that this is a member of Food Pyramid, which totally makes sense.

Here comes the hi-hat. It's now a rave vibe on an alien planet oasis. 80's soundtrack vibes. I want a keytar. This is somehow making me realize I need a keytar in my life. If I had an office job where I spent a lot of time at a computer, I would probably be jamming this SO hard. I think my favorite thing on a few of these jams is the synth bass. So truly phat. Sophisticated, yet still kind of sick. Everything feels very calculated and is where it should be, no matter how sparse or busy it gets, all the sounds gel very well and wherever it goes it transitions seamlessly.

Okay, This song should have been in "the Land Before Time", in the beginning, before the little dinosaurs got lost or whatever happened, when the kid dinos were playing and the adult dinosaurs were doing whatever they were doing. A lot of this makes me think of scenes like that. Desert, water, future, sunrise, alien landscapes. And here is more of that shimmering. Cartoon creatures are waking up to the sunrise and dancing like robots. They are some sort of bird creatures. Someone just dropped the hi-hat. Shit, this is not my kind of thing, but it could really grow on me. Someone hook this guy up with some soundtrack work. Total vibes. Total moods. Total mood vibes. I'm vibing. I'm in th' mood. Shit goes from upbeat to dreaming seamlessly. Sick. This whole thing is pretty solid. Electronic pulse beats. I want to go work-out at a really hip urban work-out place. This track is like part modern hair salon commercial and part Sonic the Hedgehog, and some future synth-rave scmoov-jazz in a tux. Yeah right there, Sonic just hit a patch of those rings. Synth studio wizardry vibes.

And here is the last song on side A. Total chill-down. Total palette cleanser. Wait here cross-legged and the Master will bring the Sacred Truth. Envision the universe. Be cleansed by All Things Unseen. It will soon be time for you to receive the Ultimate Truth. But first, just space out and put your third eye on the pulse of the universe. The somewhat shimmering universe. You are now floating through space. Feel the nothingness surround you. You do not know how fast you are traveling, all you feel is serene. Open your eyes. You see an alien desert landscape, a distant sunset, alien creatures (from either before or after time as you know it) sip from the lake of serenity. This is the end, until you flip it over.

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-- Garrison Heck

Lunar Miasma - Observing The Universe (Moon Glyph)



The Ancient Greeks were amongst the first to study the stars. Hell, Archimedes helped Eratosthenes calculate the circumference of the Earth and Eratosthenes himself was said to have the ability calculate the Earth’s distance from the Sun and Moon which back then was pretty hard to do. Anyhow, the Greeks are still studying the stars to this day. Panos Alexiadis aka Lunar Miasma is a composer currently living in Athens, Greece making the most beautiful synthesizer music.

Lush tones explore the void in which asteroids and comets whizz around into the infinite abyss. A slow tour past Jupiter’s red spot, this release is very celestial and makes nods to Gustav Holst’s, The Planets as well as the work of Wendy Carlos. What does Mars really look like? How does it feel to be aboard a spaceship peering out into the infinite? Where does one go from there?

All are questions that arise in the beautiful synth epic “Observing The Universe”. Once again Moon Glyph releases a classic for stargazers to gaze to. 

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SICKNESS

There are just too too many amazing tapes that have been floating around in the past months, and in between running a record store/label and booking multiple tours I just haven't had the time to give them all their proper due. Cheers to Kenny for writing up the absolutely stellar Gypsy Treasures tape, that one was high on my list. Here is said list, and it needs to be said that each of these tapes deserves a complete write up. All come highly recommended.



New Blockaders- Live At Morden Tower (Mirror Tapes) - NB at their very best, early '80s live recordings issued for the first time (?) in complete form. Sounds like a bunch of metal being scraped together and shook up, if that's your bag, then do not hesitate because this is very limited.



NNA Tapes - I believe the name of this label stands for Nu New Age, and while you won't find too many surprise in their catalog (Caboladies, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ryan Garbes, Three Legged Race, Nonhorse, Driphouse) all the releases are highly listenable and have a uniform and attractive look.



Limbs Bin - Familiar Combatants (Tickled Meat Productions) - I don't really know what "digital hardcore" is, but I'm guessing this about fits the description. 30 second songs, angry barking and pummeling drum machine mania. Rinse, repeat. What makes this work is actually the repetition and the the sense of humor and caring that comes across in the lovingly assembled packaging (sewn-in info book, lyric sheet). Music made by one Josh Landes of Western Mass, who is a total sweetheart.



Charlie McAlister - Crappie Fishin (package deal #5) (Unread Records) - Here we see the latest in the world of c.mcalister. this long awaited project is entitled "crappie fishin" or "package deal #5" - which follows the same basic theme/scheme of package deals gone by. the cassette contains all new sound collage works compiling various old reel-to-reel tapes, shortwave radio snippits, telephone conversation, skipping records, found sounds, etc. hear the excitement as the tanker truck blows! a strange and surreal trip through a bizzare terrain indeed. The VHS contains the films : mundane calculation & pragmatic vacancy / realms of triple-ism / crappie fishin / making the sandwhich. Items contained in sealed plastic porno bag co-released with SPACE CULT in an edition of only 30 copies.


Blanche Blanche Blanche - Songs of... (Night People) - Just. Absolutely. The. Best. Band. Can you feel the beat of my pop heart?



Russian Tsarlag - Eternal Flame // Mark Lord - Straight From The Hand (Ranky Tanky) - You'll probably want to pick up both of these new releases from this great label run by the guy who does Night Burger. Heather Nicole Young and Dick Neff tapes available too.



Happy Jawbone Family Band - Return To Hotel Double Tragedy (Spooky Town) - an equally winning sequel to last year's Hotel Double Tragedy: gold edition LP on Feeding Tube Records.



Daniel Higgs - Ultraterrestrial Harvest Hymns (Moon Glyph). You know you want this. The whole album was recorded direct to the master tape.



Ecstatic Peace - Our colleagues at E.P. just released 10 new tapes. Some of these may be done and gone already. I have copies if people want, but this NOT a paid advertisement, just you know...whatever. Don't be mad at me! Anyway, there are a few really good ones. The highlights for me are the Black Hole Miami tape (INC style hell) and Body/Head "Fractured Orgasm" (Bill Nace + Kim Gordon). There is also a Stegm double tape that i have yet to check out.

*BODY/HEAD – “Fractured Orgasm” – sick guitar duo Kim Gordon + Bill Nace.
*CALDERA LAKES – “Arranged” – beautiful dream noise from Eva Aguila (Kevin Shields) and Brittany Gould.
*STILLBIRTH – “Before Things Got Worse” - focused noise drama from Luke Moldof (Razors & Medicine).
*LEAH PEAH – solo cassette of harsh noise love from member of Head Molt.
*BLACK HOLE MIAMI – “Pure Hell” – over the top trio of Rat Bastard (To Live & Shave in LA), Ulrich Krieger (Zeitkratzer) and Chris Grier (Scarcity of Tanks, etc.).
*BLYTH HOLES – “Blyth Graveyard” – kitchen table UK harsh electronics super-trio of George Proctor (Mutant Ape), Ben Jones (Jazzfinger) and Dean Glaister (Romance). Artwork by Kim Gordon.
*STRANGE BREW – “Live Weird, Die Weird” – solo noise action from Ann Arbor, Michigan legend Michelle Birawer.
*SOUND OF POT / PEWT’R – split cassette from Western Mass underground wizards, exploring internal synth moves. SoP: Conrad Capistran (Tarp), Pewt’r: Ron Schneiderman (Sunburned). Cover art by Thurston Moore.
*WEIRD HABIT – amazing new solo venture from Sarah Bernat of 16 Bitch Pile-Up.
*STEGM – “On Tight White Sheets” – 2Xcassette in white vinyl case. Killer harsh noise project of Canada power electronics master Ryan Bloomer.