Shumoto / Rambutan - The Migration To Warm Rivers
The sonic path winds down through the earth. Here the rituals of compression and expansion unfold, there are no timely patterns. Rock and sediment groan and sigh as pressures and heat cascade through them. These sounds are unnatural for listeners outside the process, but the primordial beauty they contain pulls on thoughts and beckons for understanding. Two projects, Shumoto and Rambutan, have been combined together like metamorphic rock. Their sounds producing one full length record, The Migration To Warm Rivers, sparkling with the gleam of calcite crystals.
Shumoto is the project of Jefferson Pitcher. His extensive experience and well honed creativity allows him knowledge similar to rock formations, patience. There is nothing hurried on Shumoto's two tracks. Guitar notes clear and heavy, slowly emitted from the depths of consciousness. The tempo is almost glacial in movement. Jefferson adds poetry from the writings of Ben Jahn (Dowser's Prayer), creating a complex assortment of aural features. Both guitar and spoken word tangle in patterns like Celtic art. As this pushes towards completion, Jefferson appends the entire composition with folk like primitive guitar playing. A knotty en devour, with waves of heaviness that are difficult to convey.
Most attuned with side A, Rambutan continues with massively lucid guitar work. Three tracks in total with divisions dissolved in the whole. Unlike the first side, Eric Hardiman's work sheds context and finds flowing yet disjointed dreamlike space. Undertones of drone like oceans, ominous when first heard, then peacefully distant as listeners continue afloat. The depths of these sounds are still beyond understanding, but the surface is radiated with both light and life. A mesmerizing sonic output filled with alien like warble eventually dissipating into the mist. And from this haze sounds an infinite reverberations of undisturbed guitar notes. The final adieu, a much welcomed tranquil envelopment as this substantial split has filled our meditations.
A beautiful vibrant blue vinyl housed inside handmade record jackets. Offered by the Lost Forest label as 002. Difficult to find anything online line regarding the label or what 001 is, if there is an 001. A small mystery that hopefully someone can clarify. Another cool note... Lost in a Sea of Sound has listened to and described The Migration To Warm Rivers before it's release date of July 14th. If you have read this far then be sure remember there are only one hundred of these created. They are available as a pre-order from the Rambutan bandcamp page of from Jefferson Pitcher's site.
Links
Rambutan - bandcamp
Jefferson Pitcher site - bandcamp
Lost Forest Records
Shumoto is the project of Jefferson Pitcher. His extensive experience and well honed creativity allows him knowledge similar to rock formations, patience. There is nothing hurried on Shumoto's two tracks. Guitar notes clear and heavy, slowly emitted from the depths of consciousness. The tempo is almost glacial in movement. Jefferson adds poetry from the writings of Ben Jahn (Dowser's Prayer), creating a complex assortment of aural features. Both guitar and spoken word tangle in patterns like Celtic art. As this pushes towards completion, Jefferson appends the entire composition with folk like primitive guitar playing. A knotty en devour, with waves of heaviness that are difficult to convey.
Most attuned with side A, Rambutan continues with massively lucid guitar work. Three tracks in total with divisions dissolved in the whole. Unlike the first side, Eric Hardiman's work sheds context and finds flowing yet disjointed dreamlike space. Undertones of drone like oceans, ominous when first heard, then peacefully distant as listeners continue afloat. The depths of these sounds are still beyond understanding, but the surface is radiated with both light and life. A mesmerizing sonic output filled with alien like warble eventually dissipating into the mist. And from this haze sounds an infinite reverberations of undisturbed guitar notes. The final adieu, a much welcomed tranquil envelopment as this substantial split has filled our meditations.
A beautiful vibrant blue vinyl housed inside handmade record jackets. Offered by the Lost Forest label as 002. Difficult to find anything online line regarding the label or what 001 is, if there is an 001. A small mystery that hopefully someone can clarify. Another cool note... Lost in a Sea of Sound has listened to and described The Migration To Warm Rivers before it's release date of July 14th. If you have read this far then be sure remember there are only one hundred of these created. They are available as a pre-order from the Rambutan bandcamp page of from Jefferson Pitcher's site.
Links
Rambutan - bandcamp
Jefferson Pitcher site - bandcamp
Lost Forest Records
