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CIR 003LP
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"Horaflora is the moniker of Bay Area resident Raub Roy and Craterellus Cornucopioides represents his most seminal work to date. A heavy dose of electronic treachery awaits as 'Horn of Plenty' cracks open your ears. Skewed waves flash out and ricochet off every surface in the room like little sonic bullets just waiting to load you up with shrapnel. Roy's like a puppet master, wielding bleeps and squirts as his arsenal, bending them into unexpected shapes. Every crackle, every turn is the right one. It's an awesome exercise in trashcan electronics. The flip, 'Trumpet of Death,' gets even more medieval. Horn squalls are burnt into charred deliciousness. While oscillating squelches are lined up to infinity, endless loops recoil, destroying each other and leaving the ground littered with caustic tonal debris. If these are the death throes, color me fucking excited. Recommended." - Brad Rose, Experimedia. Limited to 250 copies.
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CIR 002LP
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"An epic new missive from the ever-prolific Brad Rose under his increasingly less prolific North Sea moniker, Tacazze Sunbird comes to us via the somewhat mysterious Crazy Iris label (who are responsible for issuing a superlative KPLR record a couple years ago), and is unique in his repertoire as it's comprised of two side-length pieces and focuses on the harsher end of the sound spectrum. Opener 'Suicide Spin' is as bleak as the title implies, with seething electronic drones set against negative space and otherworldly oscillations. 'Over Under' is even more punishing and stark, with a caustic cycling tone beginning the side slowly evolving into a miasma of crumbling noise. This is the bleakest and most noise-oriented material I've heard from Brad to date, and it's also some of his strongest. Brad recently told me that he was finally putting the North Sea to bed, and if this is that project's swan song, it's one hell of an exit." - Alex Cobb, Experimedia. Limited to 250 copies; silkscreened covers.
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