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█ With Mustard Gas and Roses, guitarist Mike Gallagher █
█ (of renowned dirge architects ISIS) unveils a █
█ compendium of sparse ruminations culled from years of █
█ underground musical experience. An artistic -and █
█ entirely instrumental- departure from band-based █
█ disseminations, Gallagher's solo debut is nonetheless █
█ in accord with the general aesthetic of ISIS, █
█ exploring the same telekinetic atmosphere via more █
█ personal and austere means. █
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█ As such, Nova Lux is a sonic narrative of post-rock █
█ splendor underscored by barely perceptible shifts in █
█ the aural firmament, the perpetual inertia of ringing █
█ notes, and the low hum of inevitability. The five █
█ ominous instrumental passages contained within are █
█ headphone music for the drone-damaged; the stirring, █
█ vaguely sinister murmurs of a half-remembered █
█ occurrence. Punctuated by the pedal steel of Greg █
█ Burns (Red Sparowes/Halifax Pier) on track one and █
█ the expert beat manipulation of Oktopus (Dalek) on █
█ track four, Nova Lux conjures up a nebulous psychic █
█ landscape in which the indefinable never takes shape, █
█ where the horizon slips in and out of focus and █
█ existential trepidation levitates just above the █
█ hearing threshold. Gallagher's guitar-based █
█ compositions are the proverbial ghosts in the █
█ machine, revealing an expert convergence of human █
█ expression and electronic technology that plumbs the █
█ murky depths and dim corners of elemental █
█ consciousness: Echoes of past experience take shape, █
█ floating across the stereo field before dissolving █
█ quietly into the ether like half-formed shadows at █
█ sundown. █
█ █
█ The name Mustard Gas and Roses is a reference to a █
█ line from Kurt Vonnegut's semi-autobiographical novel █
█ Slaughterhouse Five, a classic of gallows humor that █
█ recounts the horrific but little-known massacre at █
█ Dresden during World War II. Known as the "Florence █
█ of the North," the German city was full of hospitals, █
█ wounded soldiers, and refugees toward the end of the █
█ War, before Great Britain's Royal Air Force dropped █
█ 700,000 phosphorous bombs on the population of 1.2 █
█ million in the space of 14 hours on February 13, █
█ 1945. There were no military units stationed in █
█ Dresden at the time of the attack. Over a quarter of █
█ a million innocent civilians were killed as a result █
█ - more than by the atomic bombings of Nagasaki and █
█ Hiroshima combined. █
█ █
█ Just as Slaughterhouse Five laid bare a catastrophic █
█ event made deliberately obscure in the annals of █
█ world history, Nova Lux assembles the fragments of a █
█ corrupted archetypal memory into something almost █
█ tangible - the flashpoint where the collective █
█ consciousness and personal recollection collide. Slow █
█ and deliberate, spectral and brooding, it finds its █
█ purpose with those who listen intently and without █
█ distraction. █
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█ 02 05:48 II █
█ 03 12:48 III █
█ 04 07:32 IV █
█ 05 10:25 V █
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█ Total size : 71,0 MB Total Time : 44:17 min █
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iTS is currently accepting applications for new rippers!!
After closing our doors for a long time we've decided to
re open them to allow some new blood into the fold.
We are a fun and friendly veteran crew who have
established oursleves as a respectable group over the years.
If you're interested in joining a group with people who know
what they are doing, dont release fakes and treat their rippers
well, email the addy below to speak with one of our seniors.
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