a r t i s t : Ben Nash
t i t l e : The Seventh Goodbye
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Aurora Borealis
g e n r e : Psychedelic
r l s. d a t e : May/2008
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 35,10 MB
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Vinyl debut for long term Blackest Rainbow brother Ben... I'm
extremly happy with this one. 8 tracks, 34 minutes. Opening
with a reworking of 'KUAD 9873' from his Blackest Rainbow
debut cassette... bleak drones smothered in vocal lulling, and
finishing with a sweet guitar piece swirling in a lake of
percussion, vocal and drone. 'Nightcall' shows a more middle
eastern psychedelic droning, bowing, wailing, and satanic
mutterings. Track 3 is the title track 'The Seventh Goodbye',
and is the most 'full band' approach of Ben's acoustic
psychedelic folk jams, but this blurs into sax blurts, waves
of melancholic vocal drone and writhing riffery. Perhaps
similar to Voice of the Seven Woods or Six Organs of
Admittance. Side B opener 'Smoke and Flattery' is the most
experimental - multi percussion, echoes of whispers, finger
grating guitars. 'Magnetophon Pt IV' is not Ben's recent Sloow
Tape of a similar name, but a bluesy haze LSD dream, building
into a drenched ecstatic guitar drone. Following this is 'What
Will Always Be Pt.II' which is reminiscent of Jack Rose, or
James Blackshaw, the most beautiful composition on the LP.
This bleeds into the final surrealness of 'Angel No. 7' field
recordings, bleak, fearful and empty. I'm honoured to release
this gem. Limited to 250 hand numbered copies on virgin vinyl,
with black, white and red pasted on covers, plus a black and
white insert. All artwork designed by Darryl Norsen who
designed our (VxPxC) sleeve, and done a few beauties for
Important records, as well as posters for Sunburned, Six
Organs, Hush Arbors, Magik Markers and more.
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01-Kuad 9873 [04:47]
02-Night Call [03:16]
03-The Seventh Goodbye [05:07]
04-Resolution [02:40]
05-Smoke & Flattery [08:04]
06-Magnetophon 8 Pt. IV [06:37]
07-What Will Always Be Pt. II [02:57]
08-Angel #7 [01:23]
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34:51 min