| Lavatone / Lavatone |
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| Album: | Lavatone | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Lavatone | Added: | Oct 2018 | |
| Label: | Full Spectrum | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-10-24 | Pull Date: | 2018-12-26 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Dec 16 | Nov 25 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 30, 2018: | On The Warpath Terrafish | 4. | Dec 28, 2018: | Rivulets Side A & B | |
| 2. | Dec 30, 2018: | ad hoc variety show Stainless Steel | 5. | Dec 15, 2018: | Music Casserole Terrafish | |
| 3. | Dec 29, 2018: | Music Casserole Aaron's Cave | 6. | Dec 14, 2018: | old fart At Play Aaron's Cave |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2018-10-24 | ||
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Spooky desert psych soundscapes from Amarillo, Texas. Originally self-released in the nineties, now reissued by Andrew Weathers’s Full Spectrum label. It’s fried and lo-fi, experimental in more of a “this is messing with my head” way than an academic way, but also not aggressively intense. From Hayden Pedigo’s liner notes: “like warped New Age music after a complete nuclear war.” A precursor to the deep end of ~2010 lo-fi psych tapes, when KZSU had a cassette blog (cassettes.kzsu.fm). RIYL the last episode of Twin Peaks: The Return, bent VHS dubs, stuff former KZSU DJs Brick or HYPRK would play, Not Not Fun, Sun Araw or early James Ferraro or Julian Lynch. Favorites: 2, 4, 5, 7. Mostly no words, no FCCs detected. 1. (1:33)—Wobbly tape. Deep, distant drums. 2. *(6:37)—Slow drums, soft cymbal. Deep, tape-warped tones from a guitar. It’s a rock setup but doesn’t sound like it at all. Turns into fuzzed out bathwater psych. 3. (6:01)—Deep plodding drumbeat. Clanking sounds. Like someone moving a big cart across a dusty farm. 4. *(4:54)—Tone-warped bells. Voice! Shells or grains filtered through hands. 5. *(5:08)—Mid-tempo hand drums, scratching noise, thick low end. Has kind of a destroyed sci-fi dub feel. 6. (3:40)—Really gets going halfway in. Simply steel drum-like loop. Reversed tape. 7. *(3:36)—Loud bells and drums. Surprisingly heavy for a bit. Feels more recognizable as plodding psych rock. Pink Floyd at Pompeii, with the big gong. 8. (8:08)—Mouth harp. Slow polyrhythms, like some ritual cowboy caravan. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Sunday Morn' | 5. | Stainless Steel | |||
| 2. | Terrafish | 6. | Overblue | |||
| 3. | Swallowing Air | 7. | Innerds | |||
| 4. | Potboy And Sourpuss | 8. | Aaron's Cave |