Jason Sharp - Stand Above The Streams - VINYL LP

Electroacoustic composer and saxophonist Jason Sharp presents his third album on Constellation and first purely solo recording. Following two acclaimed albums composed around particular collaborators and guest players, Sharp conceived The Turning Centre Of A Still World as an interplay strictly bounded by his own body, his acoustic instrument, and his bespoke electronic rig. The result is Sharp's most lucid, poignant, integral work to date - a singular sonic exploration of human/machine calibration, interaction, expression and biofeedback. Using saxophones, foot-controlled bass pedals, and his own pulse - patched through a heart monitor routed to various signal paths that trigger modular synthesizers and samplers - Sharp paints harmolodic waves of glistening synthesis, pink noise and digitalia. Electronic Sound has called Sharp's work Inchmesmerizing, like Stars Of The Lid pursuing the Sun Ra Arkestra into an electricity substation.Inch His sound palette evokes fellow-travelers like Fennesz, Klaus Schulze, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost and Colin Stetson. This immersive, intensive, widescreen electronic album could sit comfortably as a stellar contribution to the space/sci-fi/synth soundtrack genre. But this is ultimately deeper, grittier, earthier stuff - pulsing with terrestrial granularity, charting subterranean geographies of the heart and soul. Deluxe 180gram vinyl includes four 12Inchx12Inch art prints of analog film stills by renowned experimental filmmaker Daïchi Saïto.

The early recordings of THORNS and their predecessor STIGMA DIABOLICUM belong to the most legendary and influential Norwegian black metal works of all time. This encompasses STIGMA DIABOLICUM's InchLuna de NocturnusInch demo (1991) and rehearsal tape as well The Thorns demos InchGrymyrkInch (1991) and InchTrøndertunInch (1992). Mastermind Snorre Ruch aka Blackthorn is widely credited as the original creator of the Nordic black metal guitar sound that in combination with the riffing and concepts of MAYHEM's Øystein InchEuronymousInch Aarseth laid the sonic foundation of the as famous as infamous Norwegian scene - and subsequently the global phenomenon that followed.

Jason Sharp - A Boat Upon Its Blood [VINYL LP] 180 Gram, date 09/30/2016