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PATHWAY 010LP
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"Mutual admirers of each other's work, Thomas Meluch (Benoît Pioulard) and Kyle Dunn (Kyle Bobby Dunn) present a collaborative recording that ruminates on painful realities, disappointments and transitioning to new homes, in the hopes of finding a coping mechanism to bring them through to the other side. Perils began auspiciously in 2012 at transitional points in these artists' lives. Dunn was living in Belleville, Ontario, trying to complete Kyle Bobby Dunn and the Infinite Sadness (Students of Decay) and coming to grips with the fact that this great endeavor was at its end. Given the enormity of the album and the emotionally and physically exhausting process of recording it, Dunn found himself drained with unforeseen questions and confusions. He immersed himself into this newfound nocturnal work, finding a path in the midst of wondering. Meluch, meanwhile, was uprooting from the UK and relocating to Seattle during the recording process of Perils. Nearly drowning under the anxieties of living on uncertain ground, he channeled these emotions into musical escapades. Meluch recorded in his spare moments, sending sonic puzzle pieces one by one to Dunn, who would in turn explore the musical sentiments Meluch had shared, adding his own billowing sounds to the seething mix. The ten pieces created for this release are culled from a poutine and whisky-fueled trudge through the dark corridors of an as-yet undiscovered or possibly imaginary mystic temple. Commencing with the shimmering guitar and tape loops of 'Colours Hide My Face,' the album crawls out of the grooves with a slow-churning turmoil, coaxing the listener to embark along its path. The dirge-like guitar clang and vocals of '(Dead in the) Creekbed Blues' could be an 18th Century blues standard emitted from a buried radio. On Perils, Meluch and Dunn lock arms and together chart the upheaval in their lives to bridge the liminal gulf between the once-was and the soon-to-be."
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PATHWAY 007LP
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"How do you play the wind chimes? I hear crickets pulse; it sounds like breathing. If it seems that the elephant of memory plays the piano, it's because the speed of the pulsing notes punctuate each moment before sounds vanish in a bright, gray haze. There is a sweetness beyond melancholy in the natural tones of the sounds as if Durand had bumped into an old calliope and discovered that its steam whistles had punctured the keyboard with the sap of new seedlings. The firefly language is based on roots of light. The music dawns on you, in you, all over you. And then you forget who you are and just listen because you are not just listening but experiencing. The sounds of birds blend with the raindrops of piano notes until it seems the birds are singing while playing the piano, or the piano is accompanying the birds."
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PATHWAY 005LP
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Nite Lite is the Portland-based duo of Philip and Myste French. This is their debut, described by Dummy as "Bridging the gap between sci-fi soundtrack and music-box melodies... a topiary of scrupulously arranged organic sounds...". Mastered by James Plotkin. Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl. "A topiary of organic sound. 'Topos,' place. And the ambient surrounds us. The topic: to pick up sounds in your old kit bag for survival; to keep the world alive by clipping and trimming, sculpting shapes out of its sounds. If we can sculpt sound, then we can type on clouds. Clouds are perfect typewriters, the opposite of skin. Sound is organic even when it's the artificial reproduction of cricket music. Even in field recordings, when we are recording in the field, the field is also recording us, reminding us that we breathe in its micro-ambience. How else could we copy infinity? Sounds assembled to resemble nothing like the world that comes from where they came from. There are webs and we below know they will always be un-mappable mazes. This music exists somewhere between sci-fi soundtrack and being inside a music box. It's an aquatic, underwater sound as if the ocean were a seashell (who could lift it?) and through it we could hear the murmurs of invisible whales using sonar to mirror the deeps from our own aquariums. Nite Lite makes us feel safe enough to experience how any night can be a jungle of the possible, and that the experience of listening is a kind of migration from solar to sonar sonata."
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PATHWAY 004LP
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"Through the unending fog and beyond the impassable door, a voice emerges. Charlemagne Palestine, writhing in uncontrollable terror, moves to ward off the demons for the sake of the listener by howling through the void. Janek Schaefer bellies a haven, a cocoon for the listener to hide in, to grasp some semblance of life that remains and hold on to it dearly. Bells chime ominously to help dispel the haunting and are yet another stark reminder of the impending doom. What hath wrought them? What can be done against them? On this day, Charlemagne Palestine and Janek Schaefer have faced the darkness surrounding us, traversed through the fog, waded into the murky waters, and encountered demons that have surfaced from the dark recesses of the earth. Herein lies the hope that was gained through facing the horror that was left unchained. Each LP comes with a demon mask that is full color and custom die cut on 12 point card stock with elastic straps."
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PATHWAY 001LP
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"Ritual is Solo Andata's third full-length album and also the inaugural release for the Buffalo-based label, Desire Path Recordings. This limited edition 12" LP consists of four glorious sonic 'topographies' that are altogether spellbinding, eerie, visceral and energetic. Ritual, similar to Solo Andata's self-titled album on 12k, is fundamentally made up of organic sounds, such as primitive gongs, bells and bowls, wildlife and environmental recordings, sacred chants, the vibration of human cancerous cells, cleavers, and prepared piano. These four pieces seem to work toward a repetition or 'ritual' between disparate elements so as to transport us, via a magical spell, to dense otherworldly habitats. In fact, the title of the twenty-minute piece 'Incantare' translates as 'to chant' (a magical spell upon), which derives from 'in', into, unto and 'cantare', to sing. For the eight-minute piece 'Carving,' there exists a 'ritualistic' image similar to that of Kafka's In the Penal Colony, where an intricate carving device inscribes the Condemned prisoner's sentence onto his flesh. The whole affair of Ritual is bound to leave listeners mesmerized by its vividness and bewitched by its intensity." Mastered by James Plotkin.
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