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01. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - Before the Dam Broke
02. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - Dive Into the Grave
03. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - Five Demiurgic Options
01. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - Sferic Ghost Transmits / Fear the Crown
02. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - Seven Virgins
03. SHACKLETON & VENGEANCE TENFOLD - The Prophet Sequence
ARTIST
TITLE
Sferic Ghost Transmits
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJP 084LP HJP 084LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/24/2017

No-one else makes music like this: devilishly complex but warm and intuitive, stirring together a dizzying assembly of outernational and outerspace influences while retaining the subby funk-and-hot-breath pressure of Shackleton's soundboy, club roots. The result is an evolutionary, truly alchemical music -- great shifting tides of dub, minimalist composition, and choral song ("Five Demiurgic Options"); ritual spells to ward off the darkness ("Before the Dam Broke," "The Prophet Sequence"); radiophonia and zoned-out guitar improv ("Seven Virgins"); even the febrile, freeform psychedelia of '80s noise rock ("Sferic Ghost Transmits / Fear the Crown"). In the time since he collaborated with Shackleton on 2012's Music For The Quiet Hour, Vengeance's vocal and lyrical range has rolled out across this new terrain. Throughout these transmissions he's hoarse preacher, sage scholar, and ravaged bluesman; blind man marching off to war; and exhausted time-traveler warning of impending socio-ecological catastrophe. Dialogic accounts of our conflicted times, then, expanding beyond the treacly unease of the duo's early collaborative work into something subtler and more emotionally shattering -- its shades of brightness more dazzling, and its darkness even murkier. "We almost didn't hear it when the foundations went."