Description:	LP on Blackest Rainbow
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Blackest Rainbow
	Price:	£7.99
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brian on 07 May 2009.

Another smashing double header split LP from the Blackest Rainbow stable next. Taiga Remains (Alex Cobb who runs the Students Of Decay label) are up first with a sprawling atmospheric piece called 'Mengku From Mengsa', all shimmering metal bowls and cosmic drone. The acoustics on this vinyl are just terrific and the general aura of this particular recording screams astral trancendence giving way to a deliciously foreboding plateau. Your head becomes completely enveloped by the eerie widescreen hums, tinkles, clangs & snaking metallic resonance. Phil is reminded of an imaginary Tibetan Saucer-Eyed Hound he had as a child and Brett is dreaming of smoking monkeys. Just to confuse matters, RV Paintings' (Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos) side 'Emission Spectrum' is cut from a very similar cloth and so continues the fabulously creepy vibe i.e well drifting & meditative whilst erring on the side of faintly ominous. I like the fact RV Paintings list "hollowed bone" & "water pouring" as instruments. Fabulous work, I recommend some quality headphones as this is quite something! Art is by Tarentel's Jefre Cantu Ledesma!

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Sound clips for Split by Taiga Remains/ RV Paintings: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. LP (vinyl), Blackest Rainbow, n/a, £7.99.

What their label says...

Two of America's finest drone acts come together for this split LP. Taiga Remains is Student of Decay's master mind Alex Cobb project, if you ain't picked up his new disc on Digitalis 'Wax Canopy' yet, go get it, it is one of the best drone releases I have heard in a long time! The 15 minute track on this is new split LP is entitled 'Mengku From Mengsa'. Opening with far off chimes upon chimes, this leads to pure bliss dream zones, rather than the more intense material on the aforementioned Wax Canopy. This is a fantastic piece of drone work, layered to create some beautiful zoning out in the mind. RV Paintings is the project of Brian Pyle of the almighty psychedelia legends Starving Weirdos, along with his brother Jon Pyle, and Spencer Doran, who also plays under the name of Cloaks. This is an amazing track, kinda darker and bleaker than the Weirdos vibe, with some totally awesome free percussion playing central to the piece, this is hard to top in the drone game. A totally solid slab of sound from both acts. Limited to 400 copies.