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Recommended by us on 8th July 2010
...according to our Ant on Thu 08 Jul, 2010.
This baby has been a long time coming... Pre-sold to us back in May if I recall, but it has very much been worth the wait. Basically this is a 4 track mini-album on virgin vinyl in lovely sleeve by Erik Skodvin. Apparently the tracks missed the deadline for completion of the brilliant 'Navigare' album and were completed at a later date. It's apparent as they do explore the same themes and feelings. It's super heady stuff and it doesn't take long to be absorbed. I imagine being stranded in a snow drift and at other times floating above decaying ruins of an ancient coliseum and lost cities. Even being stuck in a slowly sinking submarine. Sonically the sound pallete is also similar to 'Navigare' with layers of drone, hazey synths and treated strings. I played this at home last night and totally submerged myself and really didn't want to return to the surface. Highly recommended.
"Traba" is a brand new mini-LP from the UK’s Simon Scott. In the early 90s Scott was the drummer for renowned shoegaze band Slowdive. Recent years have seen Scott running the KESH recordings label from his base in Cambridge, performing in the group Seavault with Anthony Ryan (ISAN) on Morr Music, and also working as a sound designer for television, film and sonic art installation.
2009 saw the release of Scott’s debut solo album "Navigare" released on Miasmah Recordings (run by Erik Skodvin of Svarte Greiner / Deaf Center). Scott has shared studio and stage with Brian Eno, Klimek, The Caretaker, Machinefabriek, Jasper TX, Nils Frahm, Seasons (Pre-Din), Rafael Anton Irisarri, Xela, Fever Ray, Svarte Greiner, Marcus Fjellstrom, Lawrence English, Fennesz, Leyland Kirby and Taylor Deupree. He has also remixed ON, Autistici and ISAN and provided production assistance for Hannu's album "Hintergarten". Scott also performs live with The Sight Below with Rafael Anton Irisarri and co-wrote songs on the new album "It All Falls Apart" (Ghostly International).
"Traba" contains four tracks that were written at the end of the sessions for "Navigare". When the deadline for completion of the album came and went these compositions were unfinished, but over the course of the summer and Autumn of 2009 they were completed in Scott’s o3o3o Studio in Cambridge. "Traba" continues and expands on the themes of submergence, being lost at sea, and intoxication.
"Traba" is pressed on high-quality virgin vinyl in an edition of 500 copies. Included is a free MP3 download coupon.
1. She Came From The Sea
2. The Water Loop
3. Lamina
4. An Avalanche
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