Rumours
(Dom Bartwuchs - DOMBW08) LP $20.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Heemann remains one of the premier European drone thinkers,” reminds our friends at Volcanic Tongue, “with a feel for space and place and for the precise workings of memory…. [Van Luijk has been moving toward] “a synthesis of improvised music, avant classical drones and filmic soundworks, and [Rumours] successfully blends those concerns with a slowly unraveling setting for heavenly drone works and small instrument interventions. There are aspects of the more ‘fantastical’ Organum settings, even Nurse With Wound’s Soliloquy For Lilith, but with a darker European ancient / future feel. Beneath the enveloping drone, odd, nagging melodies appear, like vague memories or barely construed shadows….”
Outpost
(Dom Bartwuchs - DOMBW07) LP $28.50
A dream-like motion from distant drones of vaguely defined shape toward totally disembodied sound, by this Australian musician who has worked with Oren Ambarchi, Greg Turkington, Mirror, Daisuke Suzuki and others.