Forget breathing “New Life” into an instrument, Stuart Chalmers has
taken Laraaji’s cult classic, cosmic-zither aesthetic, and expanded the lungs
wide enough for a whole other world to drift right on in there. Themes haze
& meld along Primordial beginnings, Call & Response spirit fights; Oh,
the Light, Ahh the Dark, Owe the Other…
It’s all concentrated here and innovatively fleshed out, even
further/unexpectedly, by a righteously tweaked/abused toy recorder’s natural
feedback and some creative tape manipulation/time-fuckery that make and take
this outta your “yet-another-spacey-auto-harp-new-age-album” and send it into
the “tripped-le-fuck-out-soundtracks-for-dying-star-worshippers realm” that
I’ve been waiting-without-knowing-for, for years.
and/or
-- Jacob
An Kittenplan
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