Eternal Tapestry - Palace Of The Night Skies

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 23 Jul, 2009.

Eternal Tapestry i'm unacquainted with even though we gradually sold shedloads of 'Mystic Induction', it never seemed to get a play whilst I was in da room. Now is my chance to achieve a higher mantric state or some such cerebral enlightenment 'cos the 'Palace of the Night Skies' LP is busting out the speakers, into my eager beaver ears. I dig heartily the slightly off-kilter psychedelic jamming & dirty stoner riffing. I love the scuzzy groove & the squalling, meandering guitar scrawl, the drum kit sounding like it's held together with tape, the muddy, feral production. I just love this grubby head frying trip of a record, it sounds really alive & primal, i'm sucked into their whacked out trip like a happy dog into a dirty canal of earthy sound. Ace innit! LP on 3 Lobed, Ltd to 700 odd, all housed in a really nice letterpress jacket, silver on dark blue again, oooh that's got to be in the recommendations eh?

three lobed recordings is excited to announce the release of palace of the night skies, the new album from eternal tapestry. while this trio first turned heads with their expansive psych/kraut/blues guitar explorations as embodied within a series of small run cassette and CDR releases, their 2007 mystic induction album on not not fun firmly established the band as formidable players worthy of sharing the stage and spotlight with such current heads as wooden shjips and kinski. palace of the night skies ups the ante and represents this group’s heaviest jams to date, bringing forth some heavily righteous riffs and plenty of drum punishment.

palace of the night skies consists of two long-form tracks recorded in 2008 at the tapestry space in portland, oregon by the band’s core lineup of dewey mahood on guitar, nick bindeman (JOMF) on guitar and occasional vocals and jed bindeman (heavy winged) on drums. “prism light traveller” covers the album’s entire first side and is rich with snarling and overblown psych guitar heroics. while no listener could ever ignore the big-time guitar workouts present throughout the album as a whole, jed bindeman’s deft and metronomic drumming propels “prism…” along its trail straight into the fiery heart of the sun. much as in his other band, heavy winged, bindeman’s drums provide the perfect background for the dueling, multi-directional guitar work. the album’s second side is the substantially more pensive and atmospheric “the hidden void.” this track’s slow boil is punctuated with incendiary psych solos and cryptically buried vocals. taken as a whole, palace of the night skies is ready and able to provide any listener in need with the set and setting for a perfect night in.

the LP is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl and housed within a classy letterpressed cover (courtesy of our buddies at dexterity press in chicago) bearing silver foil ink on deep midnight blue paper and bearing new artwork by loni gaghan. all copies of the album are accompanied by a glass-mastered CD (not CDR) of the two album tracks in addition to a bonus track (“hermetic secrets” - click here for a downloadable preview). praise shiva! the record itself is from a one-time pressing of 730 copies.

one note - the artwork above is one in the same with the LP artwork, just in an easier to translate to the screen coloration. as noted, the actual artwork is letterpressed silver ink on a deep night blue art paper stock.

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