{"title":"Pastoral","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"padang-food-tigers-sigbjorn-apeland-bumblin-creed","title":"Padang Food Tigers \u0026 Sigbjørn Apeland - Bumblin’ Creed","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=81810195\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com\/album\/bumblin-creed\"\u003eBumblin' Creed by Padang Food Tigers \u0026amp; Sigbjørn Apeland\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween them, British folk phantasms Padang Food Tigers (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) and Norwegian harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland have recorded for illustrious imprints such as ECM, Hubro, Bathetic, Scissor Tail and Blackest Rainbow. These past offerings are engrained with a rich devotion to various branches of traditional composition – church music, country and folk – yet seek to dissemble those well-worn forms under the aegis of extemporisation. Both parties are collating a formidable canon of après organic ambient, venturing beyond the all-prevailing placebos tailored by so many sleep-starved somnambulists. These guys offer up genuine alternate atmospheres with an emotional pastoralism that speaks with a deep heartfelt feeling, undeniably immediate and open. Theirs is a music inviting, or rather insisting, upon a listener’s self-projections – aimed inward towards the soul, outward in boundless leaps of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBumblin’ Creed, this collaborative venture for Northern Spy, finds these kindred spirits revelling in their new-found alliances. A shared vision now bears its artistic fruit, borne of an unshakeable belief in the beauty of the passing moment and the intrinsic need to harness precious seconds in the slow-motion passing of a reductionist blues, a child’s plaintive plea or the creak of an old wooden chair (listen, you’ll hear it). In theory it can get pretty Cageian, in reality the academy never gets a look in. The nine pieces on this highly-emotive suite – each built up from an embryonic kernel ceded by Apeland or the Tigers and developed in cherished association – seduces the space between every well-judged note, while hanging on their ebbing word. Tones react to the muttering of memory and recollection (before vanishing, lost forever), or to the artist’s respective environments (a picturesque Norwegian village, a lost river found buried at the end of a suburban garden, a stone sphinx blanketed in snow watching over the relics of a crystal citadel).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs influenced by Messiaen’s ecclesiastical organ works as Uncle Tupelo’s last round of alt.country cuts, as energised by the non-idiomatic innovations of Derek Bailey as the Delta deviations of Loren Connors, Bumblin’ Creed is an extraordinary piece of enchantment that ranks right up there alongside the best material these guys ever produced, a slow-motion country crawl, the soundtrack to your spiritual baptism: listen close, and be born all over again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":44667155415263,"sku":"CD-NS-077","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette + Digital","offer_id":44667155382495,"sku":"CS-NS-077","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"FLAC Download","offer_id":44667155480799,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667155448031,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/a2213517062_10.jpg?v=1703788668"},{"product_id":"colin-l-orchestra-infinite-ease-good-god","title":"Colin L. 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The catalyst behind SUSS, Holmes views electronic acts like Boards of Canada and shoegaze icons like My Bloody Valentine as more recent avatars of the “high lonesome” vibe that we tend to think of strictly in terms of traditional roots music. In that light, you can trace the melancholic sprawl of classic titles by both of those acts back to Hank Williams. Looking at that lineage in reverse then begs the question: What is twang, anyway, if not a form of ambiance?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGhost Box, then, embodies “ambient country music” not as a gag or a novelty or even a postmodern recontextualization, but instead as the organic offspring of forms that, in a sense, were already conjoined. One of the album’s charms, though, is that the rest of SUSS didn’t necessarily see it that way. So it required quite a bit of exploration as a group -- Holmes on mandolin and guitar, guitarist\/keyboardist Pat Irwin, pedal steel player Jonathan Gregg, synth looper\/visual artist (and New Yorker\/New York Times illustrator) Gary Leib, and William Garrett, architect of the “high lonesome” quality in the album’s mixing stage -- to arrive at a blend that felt natural. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the past,” says Holmes, “Gary and I were well known as the guys who mashed-up Dolly Parton and Devo -- but you could see the stitches. This time, we wanted to make music where you couldn't see the stitches.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe goal, in a nutshell, was to create ambient music using (mostly) traditional instruments -- a kind of reverse-engineering of Holmes’ longstanding conviction that electronic music is today’s folk expression. Ostensibly, Ghost Box achieves what Holmes was aiming for, but it also accomplishes much more. As tumbleweeds continue to blow across the screen of modern musical fashion, artists appear to yearn for the mythical America of yore as if they could somehow get there by re-creating vintage sounds. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, we’re practically inundated with music that evokes the hills of Appalachia, the never-ending Western sky, the hallowed halls of the Grand Ole Opry, and so on. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between reverence for these cultural artifacts and a fascination with them as kitsch. In both cases, the resulting music can exude the fragrance of social archeology. 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The follow-up release to their acclaimed album Ghost Box (Expanded) on Northern Spy Records, High Line explores the horizon line where the cosmic meets the landscape of the American West. Drawing on influences such as Ry Cooder and Bruce Langhorne while forging new paths alongside fellow travelers like Daniel Lanois and Boards of Canada, SUSS uses a combination of acoustic guitars, pedal steel, harmonica, mandolin and synthesized sound manipulation to take the listener on a blissful and mythic trip into the unknown.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“...a vivid landscape where mellifluous tones foster the mystery and magic of a fabled landscape.” - Allison Hussey, Pitchfork\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"...a creature unlike any other, where slide guitars and tremolo-heavy string pluckings paint a picture of a desert horizon facing a gorgeous sunset.\" - Evan Sawdey, PopMatters\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northern Spy Records","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Green Vinyl + Digital","offer_id":44667181924575,"sku":"NS-120-GREEN","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl + Digital","offer_id":44667181957343,"sku":"LP-NS-120","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD + Digital","offer_id":44667181891807,"sku":"CD-NS-120","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"FLAC Download","offer_id":44667182022879,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"MP3 Download","offer_id":44667181990111,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/suss_highLine_lo.jpg?v=1703789665"},{"product_id":"barn-songs","title":"Fay Victor - Barn Songs","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4278874906\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/fayvictor.bandcamp.com\/album\/barn-songs\"\u003eBarn Songs by Fay Victor\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Fay Victor found herself struggling to break into New York City’s jazz scene in the ‘90s, the singer and composer took a gamble on moving to Amsterdam to hone her voice and develop her improvisational instincts—a move that transformed Victor from a straight ahead jazz singer into a daring vocal improviser. 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Written, recorded, and mixed during the pandemic quarantine, the members of SUSS used their music to come to grips with concepts such as “promise” and “hope” and what they could still mean in this day and age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Promise, the NYC quartet creates sonic landscapes using pedal steel, baritone guitar, ebow, harmonium, synths, loops and other Americana instrumentation. Drawing on influences from their younger years, SUSS has created music that evokes early psychedelic Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and the seminal soundtrack work of John Barry. 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This year, RSD Drops will take place on June 12 and July 17 at participating stores worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-founded by \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eelephant\u003c\/span\u003e conservationist, Richard Lair, and musical artist and a professor of Neuroscience at Columbia University, Dave Soldier, the \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThai\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eElephant\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eOrchestra\u003c\/span\u003e are trained to play enormous, specially designed percussion instruments modeled after \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eThai\u003c\/span\u003e instruments (such as the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Ranat_ek\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wikiwand.com\/en\/Ranat_ek\u0026amp;source=gmail\u0026amp;ust=1617835938196000\u0026amp;usg=AFQjCNGa1sP-thSsBWn0jtIVJT2t39l3Sg\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eranat ek\u003c\/a\u003e). The completely improvised recordings consist of remastered audio of material released on CD via Mulatta Records as well as previously unreleased bonus material, new liner notes by Dave Soldier, and a beautiful package designed by D. 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