Barn Owl / Tom Carter - Split (Blackest Rainbow Records, 2008)

A1 Barn Owl - Flight Of Annhinga
A2 Barn Owl - Burning Dunes In Moonlight
A3 Barn Owl - Uluru
B Tom Carter - Train Kept

Drones épiques pour Barn Owl et Tom Carter...

Newest Blackest Rainbow hot on the heels of some truly killer releases from the artists involved, both who seem to have really pushed there sounds and vibes to new levels this year... Barn Owl's side has been mastered by local jammer Ben Nash, and its three tracks of sparse drone layered with bleak guitar epic-ness, tingling chimes and dark mountainous whispers. The guitars here sound delicate and beautiful, but it remains bleak and empty, if you enjoyed their LP on Not Not Fun then this is a real treat. Tom Carter's 16 minute 'Train Kept' follows pretty damn nicely from his recent 'Shots At Infinity' releases on Important, a far cry from his more psychedelic folk experimentations, here he slashes and riffs like many a legend, and maybe, just maybe, it's a slight tribute to a certain band too? This is a fully wild piece of work. Black sleeves, pasted stark landscape cover, with a insert of liner notes. Limited to 380 copies.
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Peter Wright - Crater Lake (Blackest Rainbow Records, 2007)

Untitled (34:15)

First 'official' release of 2007 comes in the form of a single 35 minute track recorded during the rehearsals for the AM/PW tour of the USA and Europe in November 2006. A long form glacial drone that erupts towards the end into a crumbling distorted lahar of debris and fire. No really. Distortion pedals and stuff like that. An excellent warm up to the forthcoming PW CDs due for release in the next few months. Comes in a limited edition of 100, some in red card sleeves, some in brown and a rare handful on a pearl parchment card.

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IN OTHER WORDS...

We last saw Peter Wright in transatlantic collaboration with Brad Rose in Servant Sun. With Crater Lake, Wright appears alone, as lonesome as the disc's single 34-minute composition, an expanded nod to Stars of the Lid, Andrew Chalk, Growing; shimmering, cresting swells of reverberation rising from thick silence, gently overlapping as they phase in and out, with slight ripples as the metallic vibration hums like a swarm. The subtle accumulation and volume of droning bodies comes crashing down in the piece's final third, where a thunderclap of hollow metal begins the precipitation of a high, brassy reed, tinged with the selfsame darkness of Labradford's masterwork 'Mi Media Naranja'. A traffic of deep rumble passes beneath the track, and carnival screams reveal a dark fantasy not unlike the impressionistic compositions of Holst or Webern. No frills CDr comes in a hand-numbered, heavy-stock folder with unruly design by Joe of Blackest Rainbow. Limited to 100 copies. Definitely recommended.

Massimo Ricci, Touching Extreme

New disc from London based Peter Wright who recently travelled around and played shows with Campbell on the Birchville Cat Motel UK visit. Over 30 minutes of excellent drone, this starts with the quietest 3 minutes ever and develops into a mind-shattering blister of sound. Limited to 100 hand numbered copies. First 10 copies come in parchment paper sleeves, the other 90 copies on brown or red pastel paper.

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