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Artist: CARTER, CHRISTINA Title: Alone Together #1 - Obelisk/Tholos Format: 7" Label: Emerald Cocoon Country: USA Price: $9.00 |
| "A new 7" by Christina Carter which serves as the opening ceremony for our new 7" series of solo performances Alone Together. A loan voice, the tangled bells, the caw of a crow, a plane passing overhead… A fortuitous overlapping of sound moments, trapped in amber by Christina for us to bear witness. Much like her early CDRs Hand & Mind or Human As Guitar, Obelisk/Tholos is an act of white witchcraft, a healing spell that defines time with the merest of tools: bells, voice, a microphone… Mastered by Pete Swanson, Edition of 300." - Emerald Cocoon. |
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Artist: METAL ROUGE Title: Trails Format: LP Label: Emerald Cocoon Country: USA Price: $15.00 |
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"After a period of semi-hibernation and technological downgrading Metal Rouge are back with the first full length missive by their new trio formation. On Trails lifers Helga Fassonaki (lapsteel/vocals) and Andrew Scott (guitar) are joined by true-crime aficionado Caitlin Mitchell (drums) for a free floating investigation into Lew Welch’s mist-ridden disappearance into the norcal wilderness on one side and a raging fit of white magic against urban-planning hell on the other. Mumbling low-fidelity chord flares, dual slide attacks and reverb-drenched vocal confusion underwritten by stuttering free cymbal play and outright rockist brutalism combine to make this perversely their most approachable release yet. Come get lost.
Recorded at Green Machines 09, Mastered by Pete Swanson, Photo Art by Lemule Barbour. Edition of 300." - Emerald Cocoon.
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Artist: SUNKEN Title: New Zealand Eels Format: LP Label: Emerald Cocoon Country: USA Price: $18.00 |
| Edition of 300 with free digital download. Thick reverseboard sleeves with art by Stefan Neville. "Sunkens previous two albums on Pseudo Arcana were long form chord-organ driven flights into the heart of the ecstatic blaring sun. Despite Antony Milton (The Nether Dawn, Glory Fckn Sun etc.) and Stefan Nevilles (Pumice) Lovecraftian attempts to posit Sunken as sea-shanties sung by sailors lost to Cthulhu at the bottom of the deepest darkest ocean, somehow their surging reed driven organs and vocal streams broadcast via cracked electronics seemed to suggest sailors breaking free of the weeds and swimming towards the light, and even, occasionally, breaking the surface. Their first vinyl release New Zealand Eels however, is a tentacle shot from the abyss to drag the sailors back down into the service of the lurker in the deep. Bleak, black and completely drowned, New Zealand Eels beams five submarine tracks from the lost to the lost through the milky darkness. With the vocal melodies pushed to the foreground and the instrumental origins of the music obscured as never before by damaged baby monitors, power starved dictaphones, tape saturation and spring reverb, Sunken are now finally, truly lost to the abyss. Two drowned sailors invite you to breathe in the water, forget about life on the surface and lay down with the kraken amidst the curling weeds." - Emerald Cocoon. |
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Artist: SWANSON, PETE Title: High Time/Trees Format: 7" Label: Emerald Cocoon Country: USA Price: $7.00 |
| "Pete Swansons love for the New Zealand underground is no secret (rumour has it that he engineered the entire Yellow Swans New Zealand tour of 2005 just so he could procure a copy of The Pin Group Goes To Town 12"), so we were pleasantly unsurprised when Pete turned in two re-imaginings of classic NZ underground tracks as his contribution to the Alone Together series. What surprised us greatly though was the form that they took: sparkling acoustic guitar, audible vocals, audible room tone – this was a Pete Swanson wed never heard before. Although his signature degradation systems are still in place (both sides end with a blown-out acoustic guitar emulating dirty-needled distortion), acoustic strings, four walls and a voice dominate, dislocated just enough to give you the sense that the world ends at your bedroom walls. This is a sound that shouldnt be unfamiliar to anyone previously baptised by 4-track channelled lathe transmissions from the bottom of the world. The dusty gems re-interpreted here are High Time by seminal Christchurch kvltists Dadamah (originally released as a 7" on the genius Majora label circa 91) and Trees from Gates recent downer-techno masterpiece A Republic Of Sadness, both are redolent of the darkest, coldest Dunedin winter as imagined from half a world away. Edition of 300. " - Emerald Cocoon. |