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The ever pulsating musical garden of delights that is Blackest Rainbow proudly present a CD of shimmering guitar textures & drifting, abstract musings from the finely twinned duo of Sophie Cooper & Ben Nash. Thought provoking shards of echo-laden scree mix it up with minute slivers of dusty guitar drone before opening into a peaceful clearing where sad-eyed sustained keyboard tones (that seem to have fallen from an early Human League record ) cross swords with these fascinating metallic scrapes derived from some ancient Eastern behemoth of a stringed appliance. The combined effect of this melancholy analogue keyboard droning away & the chinking, chiming Samurai sounds is well beautiful, truly progressive & blissed out. There's another fine track on here but time is my enemy.... today. Yup.Recorded over a weekend back in the early months of 2009, here are 2 tracks of multi instrumental composition from Ben Nash and Sophie Cooper (CooperJones). The music here is truly beautiful, personally I think this is some of the best work to come from both Ben and Sophie so far. Total late night guitar meanderings blurred with a haze of deep churning scrapes from various instruments and layered drone bliss, creating 2 totally immersive and beautiful psychedelic drone. Some of the guitar playing here has a beautiful Loren Connors mets Ry Cooder Paris Texas era sound, and then when both Ben and Sophie reach for the gee-tars you have the beautiful mix of Ben's reflective electric blues and Sophie's purely relaxed acoustic musings, totally fantastic. This really has it down for me as something truly different, lets hope that they continue to record as this duo. I certainly cannot wait for more... Glass mastered pro pressed CD (not cdr) in pro printed full colour card wallet, one time pressing of 1000. Co-released with Ben's own Recollections of Knulp label.
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