Love Letter - A Very Young Mountain

Millions of sound eddies swirling in a placid and static sea. Each one creating a unique vortex for strange frequencies to be heard. Everything evaporates towards the world above. Notes reverberate from the wings of mechanical humming birds as they siphon the vast array of turbulent wash. An organic infinity pool being drained by the most delicate robotic creations. A yin yang expose of two sonic worlds orbiting each other.

This Love Letter composition arrives without delay, burning full force as it sustains itself just above the surface. A Very Young Mountain is divided into four parts and clocks in right around twenty minutes. Music resembling closely viewed images of the suns surface both rhythmic and chaotic, making a mesmerizing spectacle. Samples of recorded voice are interjected in enough amounts, tethering the turning dial to something understandable. All together these sounds burn through the void of unseen energy collecting unbounded currents in the din of noise. 

Love Letter stays on course with A Very Young Mountain, sounds similar to earlier cassettes on Rok Lok Recores. These two tapes were described on Lost In A Sea Of Sound last year. Here is the link to It Brought Us Something We Had to Know & Gentle Memories if you would like to read and hear more. Both are still available in limited quantities.

 A Very Young Mountain was released in May of this year in an edition of forty.    

Links
Rok Lok Records site - bandcamp - facebook

Anevayblue - Trails

Trails is a tightly woven journey into the consciousness of Kevin McVey. His project Anevayblue maintains feelings of distance and separation. Almost tribal in essence, Trails has a shamanic cantor. Distorted vocals sustained in long lengths, evoke twilight spirits. Anevayblue seems to scorch the sound spectrum, leaving tones outlying the charred remains.

This composition arrives in just about a half hour and is divided into six tracks. The tones and tempo blur through both sides. Songs seem to hiss as these sounds cook under heavy radiation. The haunting vocals recall past existences, like Trails is some deteriorated remnant from eons ago. Kevin sings with a forlorn hope as the music seems to span decades of time. Early punk music rusted, corroded and playing half as fast. This cassette reminded me of a record I purchased back in 2010. The New Zealand Eels with the lp Sunken on Emerald Cocoon. Both Trails and Sunken have stirring vocals and overloaded music. Heavy affairs for loud volumes.

Released on Rok Lok Records in an edition of forty. Trails surfaced in March of this year and copies are currently available. Check the label out for this cassette and other cool stuff.

Links
Rok Lok Records site - bandcamp - facebook
Anevayblue - bandcamp - facebook

Channelers - Faces of Love

Settle in for the dense drone offering of Channelers. This is the fourth time Lost In A Sea Sound has described a Channelers composition. All four releases brought to our ears by the Inner Islands label. Faces of Love, the newest composition, is two side long tracks approaching forty minutes in length. The sounds connect meditative emptiness with tangible properties. A tempo like restful breathing, droning notes rising and falling. Moving across the surface tension of sound, notes glide then stop like Nepomorpha dancing on a cohesive force.

Faces of Love builds only so much throughout its unfolding. An intentional component in it's composing, since this is more a rich medium for the listener. Thoughts are gently coerced to expand like cumulus cloud edges building as they move through the atmosphere. The first side "Always Been", has the sustained opening of an Indian morning raga. There is classic timber to the instruments used, connecting decades of spiritual focus. The second side "Pressure Sigh", maintains strength and finding a new clarity. More modern in resonance, taking the listener back to Eno's subtle "Music fo Airports". Each side balances the other making Faces of Love two very distinct pleasures to enjoy.

Released in late July on Inner Islands in an edition of seventy five. This is music by Sean Conrad and art by Rosa Beach-Mason. Channelers is heavy substance simultaneously sounding so ethereal. This combination appeals to many, all Channeler's earlier releases on Inner Islands are sold out. Please do not miss out on Faces of Love, it could be the best one so far.

 

Links
Inner Islands site - bandcamp - facebook

ZOD1AC - THE ZOD1AC TAPES VOLUME 1

ZOD1AC running sounds through a medium of sticky honey. Slowly flowing together, beats and ambient serenity blurring definitions. The overall vibe is uplifting, tones balanced for consciousnesses to drift and severe tethers from monotonous motions. Grooves bobbing in the swells of a droning sea. ZOD1AC has a mastery of beat patience and delivers perfect proportions.

THE ZOD1AC TAPES VOLUME 1 runs course just under a half hour, composed of sixteen tracks. A well constructed variation of short vignettes and longer endeavors. ZOD1AC takes a vibrant world of beats and expertly filters out the chatter. The sounds seem to emanate from a dense molecular environment. Like hip hop whale songs, this collection is a modern lullaby in an unexplored world.

Joe Maas is the creative force behind ZOD1AC. He also has projects under Zander One. I read on a recent facebook post from Joe he is a contributor to the newly formed music venue, Joyful Union Cassette Blog. Welcome to describing sounds with words! Here is a really good post by Tommy Faith from the Australian music blog Sound Doctrine. Some thoughts on blogs with words describing sounds vs. the trend towards the music podcast style.

Circling back to the label behind THE ZOD1AC TAPES VOLUME 1, Bonding Tapes. This is their nineteenth release in just under three years. The label consistently explores the undercurrents of creativity. Focusing in specific sounds, bringing them forth with care and love. ZOD1AC has a really beautiful cassette here, don't miss out.

Links
Bonding Tapes site - facebook - bandcamp
ZOD1AC - facebook - soundcloud

ylayali - yy

Decades back when music seemed to stagnate, pop sounds tangled with needed creativity. Somberness or seriousness worked in on the edges, destroying the world of catchy jingles and sing along lyrics. Production began to rely upon mindful individuals not cookie cutter labels. True emotion seeped to the top, making music a statement of fantastic thoughts. Ylayali has delivered temporal piercing configuration, finding roots in the past and growing far into the future.

YY is eight homespun highly precise tracks. Fran Lyons is the creative force behind everything we hear and see. I would assume Fran's witty humor penned the craigslist post accompanying this as the description of this cassette. Ylayali approaches the sound spectrum in the most casual manner. Songs unfold with depth and complexity using varying arrays of sonic turbulence. Introspective to the point of wondering how difficult this was to publish. YY takes feelings and artistic style, laying all out for the world to hear. This is what makes uniquely excellent music, but at the same time must be a huge wall to traverse. Listen and be subdued into the underground currents of Ylayali.

This cassette was released in an edition of fifty in July of this year. Lily Tapes & Discs from Rochester, New York has copies of yy available. Fran had a previous split on Lily Tapes & Discs with Lung Cycles titled the same ylayali / lung cycles. This cassette is a couple of years old and is sold out. 

Links
Lily Tapes & Discs site  - bandcamp - facebook

Sister Grotto & Tucker Theodore / Planning For Burial - Split Cassette

A companion tape to the Like Author, Like Daughter lp on Whited Sepulchre Records. You can get this as an addition when ordering the record. Two track split, Sister Grotto & Tucker Theodore on side A) with "I Don't Want To Love" and Planning For Burial on side B) with "Astrid".

Both pieces climb from lonely depths, sounds building to beautiful crescendos. Tones and tempo are similar between the artists. Sister Grotto & Tucker Theodore using a slightly wider array of sonic wizardry while Planning For Burial stays subdued and focused. This split is Whited Sepulchre Records sonic barbiturate. Take it with, when you are away from the lp. Goes down effortlessly and is time released. These artists hit heavy with vast experience and creativeness.

You can listen to this on Sister Grotto's bandcamp page. As noted earlier, physical copies available with the record purchase. In an edition of one hundred.

Links
Whited Sepulchre Records site - twitter - bandcamp - facebook
Sister Grotto - bandcamp -facebook
Planning For Burial site - facebook - bandcamp
Tome To The Weather Machine blog

Midwife - Like Author, Like Daughter

Fuzzed and seared guitar becoming something in between. Folk or pop, ambient haze dipping and droning, somehow these melodies sound familiar, yet distant. Whispery haunted vocals move through Like Author, Like Daughter, resembling clouds seen billowing below mountain perches. These were happy songs, gathering dust from never being played for such long time. Now they burn through the decay of time, emitting gentle beauty as the notes slice through nostalgic residue.

Midwife is Madeline Johnston who also composes as Sister Grotto. Her newest lp Like Author, Like Daughter floats like a bird flying into a head wind. It seems impossible not to be blown back, evolution has many mysteries. Midwife cruises through a volatile medium, distorted guitar combined with disintegrating vocals all played in a sleep state cadence. Together these attributes create the soft roar of dense air. Molecules moving in the opposite direction, pushing against the focus of Madeline Johnston's sound. With skill, experience and creativity, Like Author, Like Daughter hovers with it's own fantastic mystery. Consciousnesses become transfixed as each track seemingly remains motionless. Delicate and delightful harmony woven with words torn from silk strands. A composition connecting beginning and end blurring moments into one emotion. Unnoticed beauty having sounds for unfurling and floating through new thoughts. Like Author, Like Daughter is special.

There is a lot of talent in the construct of Like Author, Like Daughter. Madeline Johnston worked with Tucker Theodore who also performed, recorded and co-produced this work. Multiple recording venues then mastered in another space. Landing at White Sepulchre Records for a beautiful vinyl presentation. The label took so much care with this as with the their preceding releases. There is an option to purchase a split cassette with the lp as well. The tape includes Planning for Burial on one side split with Sister Grotto and tucker Theodore on the other. Looks like this is only available as an addition when purchasing the vinyl. The big note to note is how limited both vinyl and cassette are, only one hundred. Much commotion from bandcamp page so do not wait on this.

Links
Whited Sepulchre Records site - twitter - bandcamp - facebook
Sister Grotto - bandcamp -facebook
Tome To The Weather Machine blog

Greydini - Bananas For Gatti

Somewhere in a world of music you are going to encounter sounds that completely confound you. Greydini has successfully shut me down. I don't understand! The pummeling feverish tempo slowing down long enough to continue on. Layers of sounds entering the pores of your skin. Bananas For Gatti is like a trap door spider, pulling you into to a dark punk hideout. Paralyzing and hypnotizing, vocals cutting through your body and horns laying you to rest.

Greydyn Wolfcow resides in a musical dimension apart from what we know. Channeling into our time framed world and utilizing the spectrum of modern sounds as a pallet. There is an early eighties rawness, without tempering and unfiltered. Eighteen tracks exploding in fifty minutes. Bananas For Gatti seems to arrive in the speakers on an electric arc. Murky static swirling around crashing beats. Don't let the saxophone mesmerize you because Greydyn has a serious story to reprogram your thoughts. A disparagement for the norm. Bananas For Gatti plays like a slashing foil to unprotected listeners. Greydini knows exactly how to command your attention and deliver fresh perspectives.

After researching this cassette found it was released last year on Tashyna Records. Could not find a site for the label, but did find a place to purchase Bananas For Gatti. You can also discover more about Greydyn Wolfcow through facebook. The youtube sample at the bottom of this post has a link to download this as well. At least for now.

Links
Purchase Here
Wolfcow - facebook 
Greydini site 

Crown Larks - Population

Crown Larks have many ingredients with the biggest being their Chicago styled sound. Punchy guitar slicing silence with algorithmic patterns. Songs filled with diverse creativity. Genre bending and mind fraying, from punk psychedelia to revised folk disintegration. The new album Population even throws jazz roots in the ground, blossoming above all low hovering sounds.

Describing Crown Larks could be and endless en devour. Like a long fireworks show, each track detonating with it's own flavor and charm. Ten lengthy tracks, singing and swaying from the yardarms, on a course through time. Population cuts deep grooves in the sound waves, arriving from distant way points with musical exotica. So many instruments used, all beholden to a massive foundation in percussive power. There is a playfulness that gives way to serious tones. I am going to stretch to reach this connection, like Sixteen Horsepower going to the big city and meeting the James White to give them a tour. Crown Larks has such a solid foundation of talent, they make what seems extreme beautiful.

Released in May on Already Dead Tapes and Records. You can purchase Population on both cassette and vinyl. This is the second description for a Crown Larks release on Lost in a Sea of Sound. The first was just over two years ago for the cassette Blood Dancer, also released on Already Dead.    

Links
Crown Larks site bandcamp - twitter - facebook
Already Dead Tapes and Records

smellycaт - dearest

Smellycaт sniffing out sound tidbits and consummate moments in everyday life. The entire composition is inflated into a rotating sphere with small pinpricks allowing the notes to flow out. As each infinitely small sound porthole passes the listeners hearing spectrum, the mood and feel of dearest begins to amass. Beautifully sequenced in timing and flow, smellycaт works a special enchantment floating thoughts in a salt laden sea.

A double cassette emitting eroded beats from a flickering pop post nuclear landscape. The remains of civilization found in broken items and distant aspirations. Dearest embodies a sentimental connection to a phased out world. So chilled on the surface but revolving with a dense burning core, holding all thirty one of the tracks together. Smellycaт sniffing the rubble of cultures remains. Bringing treasures back with noble composure. Saying, "don't feel sad, the world has moved on, here are some beautiful memories we can share, hope this makes you a little better". Melancholy vibes sliced with a playful whimsy. Smellycaт is a wise creature.

Released on the Amek Collective label. Dearest came out in April of this year in an edition of thirty five. There are copies available from the label site and from the smellycaт bandcamp page. Lost in a Sea of Sound did another description for a Amek Collective cassette release titled Filament by Mytrip. This is available on vinyl now from the labels site.

smellycaт - bandcamp - facebook
Amek Collective site - facebook