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The Book Of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) - the latest full-length, will be out in November on Relaxed Machinery
Chase Middaugh's inner artwork for The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) is up for viewing at his site.
Another great review of Lunar Monograph has been posted over at The Music Lobby. The Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Sho) will be coming out in July on Relaxed Machinery.
A new release will be coming soon from Relaxed Machinery. The Book of Five Rings, (Go Rin No Sho) has been completed and mastered (by James Plotkin). Artwork currently in the works. More on this soon...
Additionally, "God's Silence" is now available to stream/download on Last.FM
European visitors, as well as being available from COLD SPRING, Lunar Monograph is also now available at DRONE RECORDS
Old, yet previously unreleased track available in the "audio" section. God's Silence is a collaborative track with mutus liber. More new songs from both Beta Cloud (another release planned for 2010) and mutus liber (second full-length) are in the works.
you can now stream Lunar Monograph over at Last.FM
another remix to download and listen to: Marsh Of Sleep (Queen St. Dub)
Lunar Monograph is now available to purchase from iTunes. You can purchase the entire album or 3 of the tracks individually.
Lunar Monograph is also now available at Aquarius Records. Here is their review:
Latest disc of blissed out soft focus dronemusic from this longtime aQ fave. After past collaborations with Lull (which is available again and featured elsewhere on this week's list) as well as Aidan Baker, Lunar Monograph is the first disc we've head from BC on his own, and it's definitely a divine bit of ethereal and ephemeral drift.
Field recordings are deftly woven into soft swirling shimmering tones, guitars are spidery and delicate, spinning crystalline webs of hushed melody, the opening track is a gorgeous bleary eared whisper, which segues smoothly into the second track, a sprawling 22 minute stretch of delicate piano, wreathed in swirling clouds of muted glitch and streaks of static and hiss, like listening to a solo piano performance, on a hilltop in the dead of night during a rainstorm.
The record does get intense briefly, on the surprisingly rocking psych dirge blowout of "Marsh Of Epidemics", with its keening chiming guitars, fuzzy blown out buzz and pounding drumbeat, the whole thing propulsive and intense, but also washed out and otherworldly sounding, but the record quickly shifts back into something much more tranquil and contemplative, another 20+ minute slow motion soundscape, this one much less distinct in terms of instrumentation, instead a swirling, looped, processed bit of layered dronemusic, lots of high tones laid upon what sounds like angelic voices way off in the distance, and a softly undulating low end, very choral and cinematic sounding, like a much more mellow Sunroof!, laced with hints of Arvo Part.
The record finally finishes with some gorgeous prismatic pop ambience, whirring and indistinct, a slight industrial undercurrent, but for the most part, pealing tones, and barely there melodies, drifting weightlessly through a field of minimal effects, and slow shifting whirs, as well as some mysterious field recordings, that make the end of the record feel like you've just come out of a trance, and found yourself back in the real world, which is not all that far off the mark. So nice.
Field recordings are deftly woven into soft swirling shimmering tones, guitars are spidery and delicate, spinning crystalline webs of hushed melody, the opening track is a gorgeous bleary eared whisper, which segues smoothly into the second track, a sprawling 22 minute stretch of delicate piano, wreathed in swirling clouds of muted glitch and streaks of static and hiss, like listening to a solo piano performance, on a hilltop in the dead of night during a rainstorm.
The record does get intense briefly, on the surprisingly rocking psych dirge blowout of "Marsh Of Epidemics", with its keening chiming guitars, fuzzy blown out buzz and pounding drumbeat, the whole thing propulsive and intense, but also washed out and otherworldly sounding, but the record quickly shifts back into something much more tranquil and contemplative, another 20+ minute slow motion soundscape, this one much less distinct in terms of instrumentation, instead a swirling, looped, processed bit of layered dronemusic, lots of high tones laid upon what sounds like angelic voices way off in the distance, and a softly undulating low end, very choral and cinematic sounding, like a much more mellow Sunroof!, laced with hints of Arvo Part.
The record finally finishes with some gorgeous prismatic pop ambience, whirring and indistinct, a slight industrial undercurrent, but for the most part, pealing tones, and barely there melodies, drifting weightlessly through a field of minimal effects, and slow shifting whirs, as well as some mysterious field recordings, that make the end of the record feel like you've just come out of a trance, and found yourself back in the real world, which is not all that far off the mark. So nice.
Lunar Monograph can be ordered and previewed at CD Baby. While on the CD Baby site, you can also read a review from Electroambient Space.
As a thank to the people who have been ordering and previewing, download a remix version of "Marsh of Epidemics"- Marsh Of Epidemics (Serotonin Remix)
THE DISCS ARE IN
Lunar Monograph has arrived from the manufacturer. Orders, distribution and more will be coming soon. Click below to see the album cover.
TRACKLISTING:
01) Marsh Of Sleep
02) Sea Of Rains
03) Marsh Of Epidemics
04) Sea Of Tranquility
05) Bay Of Billows
just about 2 years later, and finally a new website.
also new is the next album Lunar Monograph which will be available in January 2010 on Laughing Bride Media.
the artwork has just been completed by Chase Middaugh after he spent close to a month in the hospital following a serious bicycling injury. the album was mastered by James Plotkin a few months ago.
more information, audio samples and any show listings will be posted soon. thanks for visiting...