s P L e e N C o F F i N - 7 & 7 : VOL. 2

sPLeeNCoFFiN.  7 & 7 : VOL.2 is here and traversing all new paths from VOL.1. The next four artists moving just a little bit closer the world of melodies from the first four in the series. Just a quick recap of this sound and art filled beautiful project... sPLeeNCoFFiN's  7 & 7 assemblage contains three volumes. All released on vintage seven inch reel to reel tape cases. Two seven inch vinyl records per volume with each side devoted to one of the four artist. The boxes are all hand crafted with unique art work on the inside front covers of each edition. A seven by seven inch book is housed inside with the the records. The 7 & 7 series will be a total of three volumes and twelve different artists. The numbers of each edition are not posted, so they are very limited. As of now 7 & 7 : VOL.1 and 2 are both available, there is also a subscription for all three box sets still active. 

And for some thoughts on VOL.2 artists and their sounds...  

Maïssa's long running project Theoreme holds station on side a. of this volume. Bringing rhythms from an emerging world, her sounds reach towards the African continent. A dark hazy night with the big band playing at the hip diner club in Casablanca. The patrons saying Fela' was there just before you arrived. Now Umm Kulthum is on stage mesmerizing the audience. Those times are memories for Theorme, her set is pulls from these thoughts but expands into the future. A place where the thresholds of melodies inspire new listeners, beautiful interweavings of industrial funk and poetry. 

Flipping this vinyl over brings signals from the Earth's core. The geiger counter clicking with steady cadence as the radioactive mantle grows more dense. Heavy pressure as tectonic plates are forced downwards, Alan Courtis shares a world of sound never heard until now. These sounds bend and spring back with force, energy pulled and pushed to recoil in prismatic chaos. These are sonic spaces foreign to our ears, the raw aura held within is deeply complex, making "Spring Serge" beautifully intriguing. 
 
Street Rat is the project of Gladys Harlow’s and the second vinyl starts of with her track titled “Gorge your eyes out”. Sounds resting in the air just above the planets surface. The place where aural energy travels in dense frequencies, a thick mass of unseen radio waves merging to become a sonic layer of heaviness. These sparks of sound move with clarity from their origins, as distance increases the potential energy wains, distortion and static disrupt to form something new. Street Rat is unfiltered ambient exquisiteness, a medium for thoughts to be carried to new ideas and creative spirits.
 
The fourth artist on Vol.2 is Saboteuse a project by AJ1, AJ2 and Jim. They bring the track titled "Kitchen (-two dobasticules)". This side plays like a long gun powder fuse crossing from late 70's punk into present time. Spoken word or poetry over a canvas of untreated strings and drums. Saboteuse patiently gets their message to listening ears, but it's like they have slowed down their sonic assault in order for us to hear. The detonation potential seems so eminent across the entire track, a welling of sonic energy building behind each word. s P L e e N C o F F i N and Saboteuse did really nice work selecting this for VOL.2, a good way to leave off and want more!
 
s P L e e N C o F F i N has reached out into the world and connected with a beautiful variety of sound artists. Like the first volume in the series, VOL.2 has fluid movement from one artist to the next, but is not like the sounds of VOL.1 at all. The undressed tones have been maintained, but the second in the series gravitates to more melody than the first. If the trend were to continue, VOL.3 would reach towards serenity, but with the stated line up of Andrea Pensado, Rubber O Cement, Jeff Carey and Comfort Link, this is probably an incorrect assumption.   


 
Excerpts
Theoreme – Les gifles du pariétal
Alan Courtis – Spring Serge
Street Rat – Gorge your eyes out
Saboteuse – Kitchen (two dobasticles)
 

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