Invisible Path -"Hallowed Ground"
SP-54 | cs/digital
For the past decade and from U.S. coast to U.S. coast (initially NYC, now Berkley), Michael Bailey (former member of Barn Owl) has created wholly amorphous sets of cosmically-shaded, eternally elusive ambient music with an improvist’s ear and a genuine curiosity of sound. As Invisible Path, Bailey records celestial suites of long-form, aural meditation, issuing intoxicated washes of meandering sound via Not Not Fun, Jehu & Chinaman, Mineral Tapes, and other denizens of wayward intent. Hallowed Ground, Bailey’s latest under the Invisible Path guise, is arguably the producer’s master work, culling deeply mesmerized and mesmerizing movements using a mix of stringed instruments, amplified metals, various tape machines and modular synthesizer. Balanced across two side-long pieces of equal but disparate expansiveness, the tape finds Bailey effortlessly but boldly surveying far-reaching terrains of meticulously layered sound. Tectonic shifts of all-consuming sound segue in and out of one another in a series of drifting, sonic vignettes. All you can do is yield to the bliss.
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Hollowfonts - "Primitive Masonry"
SP-53 | cs/digital
Although Primitive Masonry is only Michael J. O’Neal’s second proper release, following the exquisite and haunting XLVIII cassette on Phinery in 2013, the six pieces contained within suggest decades of refined tinkering and honed subtlety. “Hushmoney” opens the set with a hollowed-out dirge littered with sonic static and heaving atmospherics, highlighting the heightened sense of sonic diversity ahead. Pummeling low-ends and paced, scattershot rhythms perpetuate the dimmed scene with true malevolence and spidery presence. It’s a transcendent experience that grey-scale powerhouses like Modern Love strive to achieve. The title track continues the alluringly dreadful narrative with distant and disfigured runs of tribalistic, post-industrial flair. Elsewhere, “Men of the Collapse,” “Red Curling Mist” and “Dominator” throb their misanthropic meanderings with callous seduction and crippling atmospheres, permeating a hopeful ambivalence in otherwise abhorrent aural atrocities. It’s an uplifting rouse after the fall.
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Pulse Emitter - "Euphoria"
SP-52 | cs/digital
Euphoria is the sound of Daryl Groetsch, the Portland, Oregon synth-man otherwise known as Pulse Emitter, doing what he does best: producing arpeggiated striations of sound that spiral deep into the outer reaches of the aural cosmos. While Groetsch’s long-running project turned a new leaf earlier this year with the acoustic flourishes of his self-released Alien Vacation cassette, Euphoria is pure tonal meditation through expansive electronics and heedless curiosity. The airy chords and glockenspiel-led melody of “Cold Sun 5” prepare the senses for the effervescent flow of “Endless Secretion,” which drifts along with a slow and steady bob of aquatic tones. B-side opener “Cold Sun 3” continues the fluorescent narrative with oddly-angled rhythm and weightless momentum. Closer “Silent Euphoria” is one of Groetsch’s deepest efforts on tape yet, flooding the space with layer upon layer of processed elation.
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Ekin Fil - "Wind is Near"
SP-51 | cs/digital
Following a string of releases on revered imprints including Root Strata, Bathetic, and Students of Decay, Ekin Üzeltüzenci brings her elusive brand of ambient-laden folk music to Sacred Phrases. With Wind is Near, the Istanbul-based songwriter presents her most harrowing work to date, pushing the boundaries of her distant melodies and haunted arrangements. “Sense,” “Heart Minds,” and “Forever Young” distort and slur their somber vocals, blurring forlorn meanderings into the aural ether and creating a sense of bucolic desolation. Instrumentals “Captain” and “A Doubt” leave the grave tonal subtleties to run rampant, heaping the scene in eerie nostalgia and reverbed decay. Üzeltüzenci’s careful hand pushes everything into a wistfully elegiac din – a glorious tome that exists in the periphery. It’s a seductive bout of alluring melancholy that you can’t help but revel in.
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Emerald Pool
Heavy
Quartz
29
Wonder Valley
Smitten
Romantic
Mirage
Daylight
MAIA - "29"
SP-49 | cs/digital
MAIA is the instrumental electronic side project of Nite Jewel's Ramona Gonzalez. "29" was recorded in a 2 week period in northern California.
"Gonzalez’s vocals have disappeared entirely. Thankfully her command of lo-fi synths and dusty John Carpenter-influenced rhythms is still intact.” -FACT
“…Swaths of cinematic synthesized ambience and dark, anxious drum machines." -Exclaim!
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Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Creation VI + Astral & Shit -"Anamnesis"
SP-48 | cs/digital
Advanced atmospheric slabs of shifting haze, studded by stuttering. A voltage surf sliding ominously onward. Thick dense layers soar… the pieces are built from the air they glide through. Crisp air clears the mind.
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Balance Beam I
Balance Beam II
THE END OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP -"Balance Beam"
SP-47
THE END OF THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP extrudes cinematic long form drone work from a Moog synthesizer in periodic rising movements. Progression is apparent. Let the scenery change you hawing in a dither. A procession of it’s own space. Mastered by Lawrence English.
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Aloonaluna
Symbol
Like Me Like You Like Your Pussy Cat
Bleed With The Moon
Hunt For Vapor
Smut
Ant'lrd
Kitchenstyle
Tiny Raga
Thousands
Kanawha
I Sound Like My Father
Mostly Gone Pear Shaped
Rain Water Collector
Disability Tunnel
Lightdustingcymbalcloud
Aloonaluna / Ant'lrd split - "Bleeding with the Moon / Sentimental Orbs"
SP-46
Aloonaluna thumps cycled thoughtful homes of percussive synthesizer with a pensive energy. Vocals circle wistful and intimate over creaky bleats and beats.
Ant'lrd put light on the walls, tracked things and watched modulation in bursts, staved loops. Breathy mud runner muffled - climbed and crushed coins hitting the fountain floor. Assorted distorted retorted, guitar, the odd percussion, synthesizers, voice; pedaled pushed and programed by Colin Blanton.
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A Traveler’s Price
Complexion
Outsider Family
Pathways
Placement
Creator’s Balance
Surreal Findings
Samantha Glass - “Surface Water Perception”
SP-45
Programed synthesizers smear a darkened palette driven by sparse drums. Handsome mumbler draws voice to noise and back again. Wandering organs pile atop one another, deeply affecting a hazy headspace. Tenuous rumble drawn against rhythm supports swelling ideas, dwindling concerns.
The new EP from Samantha Glass "Surface Water Perception" supports the body liquid, the airy head.
Samantha Glass is Beau Devereaux, organizer and owner of Madison WI. based Golden Cloud Tapes.
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Tracklist
Decoy
Creta
Scanner
Composite
B
Portrait
99/90
Mute Game
LXV - "Spectral Playmate"
SP-44
LXV is the most recent moniker of David Sutton (formerly Current Amnesia and 1/2 of Car Commercials). Spectral Playmate is a continuing exploration of evocation and confrontation with the uncanny and ethereal through means of digital processing. With the combination of digital synthesis, composing sampled material, generating voices and mapping field recordings the intent of Spectral Playmate is tight contraptions the listener can slip into, move about and decode sonically. The small chattering in a real dream, moving over you in a hall of mirrors, the Sirenes rising out of digital ocean and jittering along.
"We seem to be surrounded by an almost invisible world that can manipulate us in any way.” -John Keel
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Fantom palms
10 Dance
Monkey ultravox
Voice killah
Workhouse
Slow river + Deep Flow
Outside
Black mountain
Sonic 60th
Mårble - "Two Women & Tiger"
SP-43 | 48 Minute Cassette
Mårble is Anton Glebov. He participated in the collectives Space Holiday Rocks and FPRF. "Two Women & Tiger" introduces recent psychedelic, tropical and dub influences.
Unhurried rhythm flavors sultry soundscapes to convey a rainforest atmosphere. Sawing leads swell swamped bass. Drift into the dampened dance and humid vocals.
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Sun Rises At Six Arjlaja Travel To A Human Heart Caffeine Break
Strom Noir - Travel To A Human Heart
SP-42 | 30 Minute Cassette
Four drifting ambient drones from Emil Maťko. Traveling the surface of the sun at slightly different speeds and densities with bright and positive energy. Meditative currents help you sail along the reflective grids.
Pro-dubbed, limited edition of 100. Digital copy included with tape purchase.
Tracklist
Pulsate
Work
Drop
Pocket Song
Fix
Domino
Glass Work
Ways
Sick Bay
Outside
Ball
Yamaoka - Silent Bridge
SP-41 | 66 Minute Cassette
Mellow, yet frantic tracks from Japan’s Yamaoka. Ambient/Techno fusion, with transient noise. Neon flying objects hover the post-industrial city while the listener weaves through digital landscapes.
Pro-dubbed, limited edition of 100. Digital copy included with tape purchase.
Tracklist
Games at the Creek
The Meadow at Summernights
Sunday Morning Cake
Treehut Visions
Guenter Schlienz - Treehut Visions
SP-40 | 60 Minute Cassette
May the complex rhythms, supported by its troughs and troches, mend what you’re missing. It gives another half of what you need. Gently, breezy, slightly elevated, languid, nonchalant, with you. For you.
Recorded Spring 2013 in Stuttgart/Germany with a DIY modular synthesizer. Mastered by Niko. Inspired by childhood memories and Jack Kerouac's "Visions" novels.
"The world of raging action and folly and also of gentle sweetness seen through the keyhole of my eye."
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Tracklist
Put my in your ...
Welcome to my stereo
Oiseau nerveux
Polymere
Christophe Bailleau - Sonic Pool Hypnose Club
SP-39 | 32 Minute Cassette
Christophe Bailleau works synthesizers to mesmerizing ends, building layers of delicate textures for underwater listening. Enjoying these recordings on dry land evokes the water in us all. Expelled breath to bubble, soar. Brainstroke the wall and back.
Pro-dubbed, limited edition of 100. Digital copy included with tape purchase.
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New Found
Begin Again
VENN RAIN - QUESTING
SP-38 | 26 Minute Cassette
Thudding felts cajole airy string serenades passionate and lush. Trilling steps incite passages of head waves. Soft attacks cast reflective fading tension.
Pro-dubbed, limited edition of 100. Digital copy included with tape purchase.
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Ka-Ata-Killa
Encyclopedia Mythica
Golden Teacher
ZuninuZ
ENUMCLAW - HOLOGRAPHIC HEADDRESS
SP-37 | 42 Minute Cassette
An auditory late night journey weaving in and out of ancient auras and unknown terrestrials. Electronic keys represent a lost and forgotten galaxy - at times foggy and dense yet a radiant glow never leaves the third eye.
For fans of Terry Riley's 'A Rainbow in Curved Air'.
All sounds performed, recorded and mixed by Norman Fetter in woods outside of Spring City, PA, 2011.
Mastered by Sam Cusumano and Norman Fetter.
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Tracklist
Never Summer Ever
Drylands
Body and Another
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Cover Unfolding
Locus of Control
Ash Fall
Recorded and Performed by Ross Gentry, August / September 2011.
VILLAGES - SUN CONTROL
SP-36 | 32 Minute Cassette
Tread a hopeful stress wind errant. Glide boughs of near composure. Walled against continual fade. Wistful turning. limited edition of 100.
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Tracklist:
Tape 1
Quiet Evenings - Heights (8:38) Buchikamashi - Mujo (Transience) (6:54) Code: Suite 104 - Traps (2:47) Enumclaw - Kuxan Suum (8:31) M. Geddes Gengras - Untitled (3:40) Pierrot Lunaire - Grinning Mirror (4:20) Nite Lite - Accipiter (6:20) Fallen Axe - Endangered Love (2:57) Hakobune - Sazanami (5:38) Dr. Sean Gadoury - Siamese Alarm Cat (7:36) Gimu - Light Pillars (6:44) Sky Thing - Burried in the Attic (5:46)Tape 2
Kyle Landstra - Headgrove (7:00) Dry Valleys - Natural Philosophers (5:30) Middle Kingdom - Fires in the Sky (6:50) Mohave Triangles - Star Gazer (5:01) Peyote Cristal - Underwater Mantra (5:07) Ophibre - Lactobacillus (5:14) Aerial Jungle - Table of Geodes (3:10) Venn Rain - Carried on the Wind (7:29) Black Velvet Stereo - Bad Noise 19 (5:24) Reedbeds - Motion Across (6:05) Sound Out Light - A Small Hole in the Sky (5:14) DJ Ecto Cooler - School's Out, Maggots (7:20)SACRED PHRASES - INSCRIPTIONS VOL. 2
SP-35 | 2x 70 Minute Cassette
Sacred Phrases has compiled an apogee of contributing artists' work… again. Inscriptions Volume 2 is a compilation that emphasizes the communal nature of music. Each track, heard individually, stands alone. When played as a compilation each track is brand new and together lead the listener on a journey like none before. This distinct aesthetic, which focuses on each track and the end effect produces a candid listening experience that takes the listener beyond the physical universe. Limited edition of 150.
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