November 2014 – jamesreindeer

جامع حلب الكبير | al jalloum | tape coming soon

gladly presenting, the great mosque of aleppo – al jalloum, and nine days in serpent graves. two sprawling, dream-like re-investigations of the original piece to be found on the ‘sittah.sittah.sab’ah‘ album, and taking us further into the hallucinogenic depths of the long desert dark, within the realms of the blackened night.

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al jalloum finds us buried yet deeper within abyssal sub-bass frequencies, slow wailing saxophones, and menacing field recordings that groan and threaten to buckle under their own weight, slowly building into an unnerving incantation from the long desert dark.

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nine days in serpent graves, in contrast, finds us caught in a hallucinogenic free-jazz sound-field that seems almost to come from the classical-experimental world, as much as the dark-jazz underworld, before slowly falling away into a dream-like state that looms ominously to its conclusion.

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available from 8th december as an ongoing digital download, and ultra-limited-edition cassette tape of only twelve copies; be sure to investigate when the time comes, and allow yourself time to be swept up into the ethereal incantations and to bathe in the psychotropic sound-fields.

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الحمراء‎ | court of the lions | out now

very gladly taking the opportunity to announce that my latest release, alhambra – court of the lions, is now available as an ultra-limited edition cassette tape and digital download from my bandcamp page.

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two fifteen-minute instrumental compositions, based on the original ‘alhambra‘ piece from my ‘sittah sittah sab’ah‘ album, the release is an instrumental journey into arabian-influenced-dark-jazz-doom-drone.

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please do be sure to think about securing yourself one of the twelve hand-crafted cassettes, or a copy of the download which also includes a six-page digital booklet with auxiliary materials. get involved.

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الحمراء‎ | court of the lions | coming soon

gladly presenting, alhambra – court of the lions, and the architect’s garden. two sprawling, dream-like re-investigations of the original piece to be found on the ‘sittah.sittah.sab’ah’ album, and taking us further into the hallucinogenic depths of the shimmering desert-sea palace by way of psychedelic incantations.

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court of the lions finds us buried deep within abyssal sub-bass frequencies, wailing trumpets and doom-like oud passages, that so very slowly build into a vast dirge of monolithic proportions, yet one so measured and deliberate in its intent to crush.

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the architect’s garden, in contrast, finds us caught in a shimmering sunlit dream of droning saxophone and oud, field recordings and hazy, blissful recollections of distant shores slowly coming into focus, before trailing back away into a lilting still.

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available from monday as an ongoing digital download, and ultra-limited-edition cassette tape of only twelve copies; be sure to investigate immediately, and allow yourself time to be swept up into the thunderous storm and to bathe in the warming radiance. get involved.

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art forms of dimensions tomorrow

‘Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow…. contained “Cluster of Galaxies” and “Solar Drums”, two rhythm section exercises with the sound treated with such strange reverberations that they threatened to obliterate the instruments’ identity and turn the music into low-budget musique concrète. While testing the tape recorder when the musicians were tuning up one day, Hunter had discovered that if he recorded with the earphones on, he could run a cable from the output jack back into the input on the recorder and produce massive reverberation…’

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‘By the 1950s commercial recording companies had developed a classical style of recording which assured that the recording process itself would be invisible… but Sun Ra began to regularly violate this convention on the Saturn releases by recording live at strange sites, by using feedback, distortion, high delay or reverb, unusual microphone placement, abrupt fades or edits, and any number of other effects or noises which called attention to the recording process. On some recordings you could hear a phone ringing, or someone walking near the microphone. It was a rough style of production, an antistyle, a self-reflexive approach which anticipates both free jazz recording conventions and punk production to come.’

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– John F Szwed

mism records no.10 | 12″ vinyl | out now

might we most jubilantly announce that our highly-esteemed dear brothers over at mism records have gladly released their fifth anniversary celebration vinyl compilation, in the form of a beautiful 12″ record, containing six tracks of pure musical wonder for your listening pleasure.

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featuring contributions from papervehicle, bleubird, babelfishh, reindeer, tenshun, glen porter, maki, and soso, the release is awash with soon-to-be classic bangers for your eternal entertainment. be sure to fix yourself a copy as soon as time and funds permit, only 200 pieces exist worldwide.

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