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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: Robedoor
Title......: Closer To The Cliff
Rip Date...: Jan-24-2008 Cat.No.....: INT002
Style......: Ambient Label......: Interregnum Records
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 43,6 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
Edition of 300 copies in digipack cover.
Recorded June - September, 2007 in Eagle Rock, CA.
Amplifier ritualizing taken to its illogical extreme. Since
forming in early '04, the LA drone duo has evolved its minimal
caveman exorcisms into a wasted zone between slow-motion black
prayers and raw war rage, playing constant shows (including a
stint in the UK) amidst a steady stream of limited vinyl, tapes,
and CDRs.
"Near static walls of low end that build from a minimal throb to a
seriously freaked out sonic squall. Imagine Birchville at its most
noisy and damaged, then fuck it up a bit, slow it down some, crank
the PA to 11, and stand back as the amps literally begin to
liquefy, the stage slowly transformed into some rumbling pulsing
black lump, the musical version of watching a star implode, or a
planet die, all rendered in lots and lots of low end and plenty of
grinding glorious feedback." - Aquarius Records.
"Brand new Robedoor CD raises the ante on their last few releases
with a supremely beautiful set of fully-excavated drone works
populated by ghosts of melody and distant gamelan tones in a way
that sounds most like Double LeopardsÆ classic Halve Maen
recording. The tracks feel extremely desolate and are so
slow-moving that the slightest tonal disruption feels like huge
bells sounding deep inside the void. One of the best Robedoor
discs to date. Recommended."
www.volcanictongue.com
"After a whole mess of lps and 7"s and cd-r's and splits, we
finally got our hands on the very first proper cd release from
East Coast dirge drone duo Robedoor and it's a killer.
As we admitted before, we were late on the uptake, having only
discovered Robedoor early last year, but have been doing our best
to make up for it, grabbing every single shred of sonic sludge we
can.
Closer To The Cliff is more of what we've come to love. Long
extended dirgescapes of crumbling distorted drones, buried black
melodies, rumbling expanses of downtuned thrum. Keening feed back
and coruscating high end smeared into glimmering expanses of
effulgent murk, a deep black glow in a roiling whirl of muted
melody. It's like SUNNO))), in its massive nearly static crawl,
but where SUNNO)) is like sticking your head in a black hole,
Robedoor is like staring into a black sun, letting your eyes glaze
over, and the various sounds and colors blur into dreamlike
dronescapes, much more lo-fi and textural, gritty, grimey,
constantly in flux, less about riffs slowed down as it is about
pulling sound apart, exposing the strange musical guts inside,
allowing them to spill out like deep black sonic viscera.
But beyond just the sheer brute force of Robedoor's deep black
sprawl, much of this disc is spent sans heaviness, letting the
rumble and roooaaar dissipate, exploring delicate crystalline
expanses of barely there shimmer, twinkling music box melodies
suspended in gently whirring fields of whispery ambience and soft
chordal washes, reminds us of Andrew Chalk filtered through Tim
Hecker, gorgeous and glimmering, but always with that ominous low
end in the background. Or imaging a Nadja record, spun really slow
with your finger and broadcast through a beat up old amp.
A gorgeously washed out and dreamily disembodied soft-doom..."
www.aquariusrecords.org
http://www.notnotfun.com/robedoor.htm
http://www.interregnumrecords.com/
p l a y l i s t
01 Divination Calling 08:46
02 Cocoon of the Cross 11:21
03 White Eyes & White Wail 08:05
04 Tethered Outside Creation 15:18
43:30 min
g r e e t i n g s
agw - amok - bass - bcc - bex - boss - cmg - cmc - cms - d2h
def - dh - disc0 - drum - emp - ftd - fwyh - gem - i8 - ipc
jce - jfk - jrp - just - khz - kinky - kw - lame - maem - mbs
mgc - psycz - r2r - rac - radial - rapid - rks - rtb - sb
sever - sfe - soup - sour - sq - tr - trt - ube - uc - upe
uki - xtc - yard - zi
respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl