African Ghost Valley - AAM

The silhouette of a shaman shaking a medicinal rattle, bass and drums vibrate with each footstep in the spiritual dance. Celestial sounds of a star filled sky enveloping the fireside ritual. Wind chimes hanging on huts stir as a breeze blows through the strands of digital notes. Where is this place? An anomaly of existence, both tribal and advanced technology pushing against each other, coalescing in the deep thoughts we all hold. The world is an amplifier for noise playing to the metronome of time. From molten flow deep within to meteorites pinging off the mesosphere, AAM explores all reaches of these sounds with mysterious felicity.

African Ghost Valley circles the earth, rarely landing with a label more than once. With around twenty five release in five years, on as many labels, this duo from Canada and Europe explores the core of sonic densities. AAM follows suite with this short and forceful upheaval of drone, harmony and other worldly noise. The first side holds three of the five tracks, these being distant aural traverses of time and space. Like a mobile of metal alien faces gently twirling in a child's room, eliciting both wonder and fear. The second side dives into high pressured depths of both land a sea. Compressed sounds billowing waves of energy in the dark and distant medium, their audible appeal received as a droning pulse. AAM shares a beautiful vivid quality that African Ghost Valley has become extremely adept in harnessing.

Released on the Brooklyn, New York label Jollies Records in an unspecified number. Copies are currently available as well as more cassettes from select electronic artists. Jollies t-shirts for sale too.

The Joyful Union Cassette Blog has a very good write up of AAM and three other Jollies releases. A good place to start if you are ready to explore.





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