Analogpath

Layers of shifting, shimmering synths are joined by echoed, unintelligible vocal loops; industrial drones give way to gentle tropical guitar…it’s all rather gentle and patient and sleepily detailed stuff. I have had a hard time reviewing it because Phil kept resetting the internet router, so this write-up has ended up rather brief but I listened to the whole thing and it was most pleasant.

Limited to 150 copies… Very tender and quiet piano loop collection. Tape loop on broken recorder with hiss and flutter via prepared tape. In memory of Yawata Masami.

Limited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… “Place & Distance” is an album of raw fragments. Carefully prepared and recorded, it’s orchestrated in a way that disguises that this is actually an album of live electronics and improvisation. It is a work of sensitivity, varied and organic. Listening, one feels that much terrain was traversed in the process, and, yet, upon arriving, it’s as though the sounds have always existed. It is an album of traumatic surprise, in which sounds gather only to quickly, and sometimes violently, break up. There’s an irony in the way in which acoustic sound is dealt with so forcefully and abstractly. This is an album of multiple selves, as though many are improvising all at once, resulting in a kind of Zen dialogue between Yantis and the listener. All music by Cody Yantis, Recorded in Archuleta County, Colorado (Summer & Fall 2012). Mastered by Sean McCann. Photograph by Tiffany Clendenin.

Limited edition run includes a bespoke photo on soft paper that slips into recycled sleeves… The Late Surge of Gold is the work of British sound designer Harry Towell, under his Spheruleus moniker. Previous releases have graced labels such as Hibernate, Home Normal and Time Released Sound and collaborations that have seen him work with the likes of Pleq and Ekca Liena. Harry also runs the Audio Gourmet netlabel and its new sister label Tessellate Recordings, which specialises in limited edition runs.

Limited edition of 100 / 4 pages of photo inlay printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included. All field recordings & music by Jared Smyth. Every sound recorded / manipulated in Summer 2011 on Sanibel Island, Florida. An aural documentary of a time and place.