1 Essence And The End
2 The Black Kite
3 Crescent-Shaped Sails
4 Breath's Burial
5 Apparition Crown
6 Negative Clouds
7 The War Ghost
8 Dustward
9 Granite And Cypress
10 Calamus Parade
11 The Broken Pillar
12 The Flying Maze
13 Wood And Wire
14 Choros
15 The Falling Of The Grain
Première réalisation des Blith Sons qui puise ses racines dans le folk psychédélique anglais, la guitare de Glenn Donaldson sert de fil, tandis que le travail de production de Loren Chasse rend ces morceaux mélancoliques et extrêment intimes....
Loren Chasse, proud owner of a brand new cd-burner, began the Jewelled Antler label as an outlet to release small cd-r pressings of a variety of warbled psychedelic projects that have spun-off from his bands Thuja and Knit Separates. The Blithe Sons is the first such release, featuring Chasse and Glenn Donaldson (from Mirza as well as Thuja / Knit Separates). Despite hailing from San Francisco, Chasse and Donaldson have tapped into a vein of melancholic UK psychedelia which runs from the Wicker Man soundtrack through to the early instrumentals of Eyeless In Gaza and the pensive sounds of Richard Youngs. While Donaldson's expressive guitar lines are central to the Blithe Sons arrangements, the album's uniqueness is found in the production work which often positions the quiet instrumentation in the pronounced foreground making the songs so intimate, as to seem played right inside your ears... or brings in some quite textural noises (very common to Chasse's solo sound investigations and manipulated field recordings) as a 'duet' with the melodic lines of the guitar. Very nice work! Based on this, the next Blithe Sons release deserves be a "real" cd release on a proper label (although the musical quality, beautiful packaging and reasonable price of this release shows that cd-r labels are sometimes quite worthwhile).
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