Hala Strana - White Sleep (Soft Abuse, 2006)

01 White Sleep
02 Dream Forever
03 Untitled

Enregistré dans des conditions qui créent une astmophère fantômatique, ce disque défie toute forme de catégorisation formelle, les morceaux arborent le cachetde l'ancien, quelque part entre le folklore d'Europe de l'Est et le drone... (à noter la reprise du "Dream Forever" des Dog Faced Hermans)

White Sleep was gone in a blink of an eye upon its release, but keep those eyes/ears open anyway. The diminished aural capacity of a lathe-cut record (pressed by the one and only Peter King out of New Zealand) lends its music a ghostly, tinny quality, which is perfect for Steven R. Smith?s work as Hala Strana. These three compositions combining multi-track recordings of live instruments with minidisk and boombox overdubs?conjure a dreamy symphonic swell that defies easy categorization. Beset with wheezing ambient tones and degraded surface noise, these mournful pieces (including a Dog Faced Hermans cover!) sound positively ancient and fall somewhere between Eastern European trad folk, the homemade primitive works of Harry Partch and the early noise drone of Velvet Underground.
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The Jewelled Antler Library Book 1 and 2 (Porter Records, 2008)

Book One
Green Laughter
1-1 Loren Chasse Green Laughter (18:11)
1-2 Loren Chasse Footpath 1 (1:02)

The Dreadful Gift
1-3 Tomes Part 1 (10:04)
1-4 Tomes Part 2 (10:38)
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1-5 Loren Chasse Footpath 2 (1:11)
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The Sun Is The Lamp
1-6 The Ivytree The Withering Year (2:53)
1-7 Ivytree Inner Groves (6:13)
1-8 The Ivytree White Sun (5:41)
1-9 The Ivytree Lake Of Fire (3:29)
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1-10 Loren Chasse Footpath 3 (0:47)
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Karst E.P.
1-11 Hala Strana Cutting Durmast (3:13)
1-12 Hala Strana Karst (5:12)
1-13 Hala Strana Sztajer (Trad. Polish) (3:13)
1-14 Hala Strana Cantecul Miresei (Trad. Romanian) (3:08)
1-15 Hala Strana Nettles (3:14)

Book Two
Their Feet Are The Foraging Ground Of Wolves
2-1 Dead Raven Choir Night Scene (8:29)
2-2 Dead Raven Choir The Horn's Sound In The Wood ... (5:45)
2-3 Dead Raven Choir The Shepherd's Hour (6:50)
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2-4 Loren Chasse Footpath 4 (2:01)
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Silvery Branches
2-5 The Famous Boating Party White Butterfly (3:37)
2-6 The Famous Boating Party The Orange Bears (3:36)
2-7 The Famous Boating Party Albion Moonlight (3:37)
2-8 The Famous Boating Party The Great Sled-Makers (3:20)
2-9 The Famous Boating Party The Deer Is Humble (2:40)
2-10 The Famous Boating Party Follies Of Summer (2:33)
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2-11 Loren Chasse Footpath 5 (1:27)
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Zwuij
2-12 Uton Zwuij 1 (5:35)
2-13 Uton Zwuij 2 (8:06)
2-14 Uton Zwuij 3 (5:29)
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2-15 Loren Chasse Footpath 6 (0:37)

réédition des douze volumes de la Jewelled Antler Library plus le CDR limité de The Ways of God to Man et des fields recordings de Loren Chasse.... Pour les amoureux de folk étrange....

With 13 groups, 59 tracks and over 4 hours and 40 minutes of music and sounds, the Jewelled Antler Library 4 CD box-set brings together experimental music from the U.S., Finland and New Zealand that ranges from psychedelic, abstract drone, soft psych, noise, folk and field recordings, to the outright strange and bizarre. Four CDs that collect together the entire 12 volume set of the limited edition Jewelled Antler CD-R Library, plus the limited edition recording of The Ways of God to Man and also 12 new field recordings by Loren Chasse. Musicians include: Fursaxa, Uton, Loren Chasse, Tomes, The Ivytree, Hala Strana, Dead Raven Choir, The Famous Boating Party, Claypipe, Muons, Thuja, Kemialliset Ystavat, The Ways of God to Man. This is a 1000 limited edition box-set. The box-set is made of chip board stock with the Jewelled Antler logo debossed in metal foil, includes 14 heavy stock panels with original artwork, CD faces have printed photos by Loren Chasse.
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