tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43536303944168372002024-02-20T16:57:27.378-06:00Transmissions from the Rainbow BridgeThe Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-35782567902409724352013-02-28T11:33:00.001-06:002013-03-03T00:37:47.434-06:00Contackt ComingBack in 2011, we were asked by the guys in <a href="http://thousandfootwhaleclaw.com/">Thousand Foot Whale Claw</a> to play the first Slow Pump SXSW party. We have maintained a friendly connection with that group of like-minded astral journeymen over the years, and have now joined their burgeoning imprint, <a href="http://holodeckrecords.com/">Holodeck Records</a>. A growing number of sound artists in Austin are producing forms of cosmic music exploring minimalism, ambient droning, electronica, and the sonic experimentation and expression typical of the 70's German avante-rock movement. The guys behind <a href="http://holodeckrecords.com/">Holodeck</a> are doing a great job ensuring that a lot of this music is not only heard, but presented in a worthwhile manner.<br />
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An initial result of this cosmic union is the imminent release of <span style="color: yellow;">Sungod's <b><a href="http://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/contackt-hd011">CONTACKT</a></b></span>. Contackt finds the duo returning to heavier forms of galactic rock. Welcoming echoes of the pink machine give way to leviathan riffs spewing waves of freaked out fuzz glory. Robo-sequences underly free rock bombast settling into heady delay pulses. Motorik syncopation zooming down highways in the futurespace; riff-lazers firing and the air scorched by flames of bending tone. Twin guitar interplay dancing in a hyper-sphere; intense drum happenings into galloping glory and walls of terror.<br />
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Intermixed with those heavy waves of acidic-triumph are muted pieces of varying ambiance: Lonely hand drum in black hole caverns of analog drone. Dub echoes across the sky and modulated filter sweeps across the surface of the third-eye. Melancholic piano and emotive fuzz slide flow with deep evolving drones and the strings of life. Robo-sequence reprised into phase dimensions of low end existence, crumbling rim shot echoes decaying into nothingness.<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Tracklisting:</span></b><br />
A1. Mesa<br />
A2. Smell of Physiqal<br />
A3. Gas is Better than Gas<br />
B1. Opiate Fields and the Blazing Glory<br />
B2. Comrade Voyager<br />
B3. Gas (Version)<br />
B4. Third Reichel<br />
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Braden Balentine: Electric Guitar, Moog Opus 3, SCI Six-Trak, Hand Drum, Piano<br />
Mike Sharp: Drums, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Moog Opus 3, SCI Six-Trak, Voice, Shakers<br />
Alex Hughes: Electric Bass, Contrabass (A2)<br />
Justin Grove: Watercolors, Pen and Ink, Artwork<br />
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As of now, <a href="http://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/album/contackt-hd011">Contackt</a> is streaming (free) and downloadable (5 bio-survival tickets) at the <a href="http://holodeckrecords.bandcamp.com/">Holodeck Bandcamp</a>. 100 cassettes are set to be released in early March, certainly in time for SXSW. When we have the tapes, a full post will follow with all the details. At that time, the album will also be posted on the Sungod Bandcamp.<br />
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The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-82353495784176643572013-02-06T14:16:00.001-06:002013-02-06T18:52:24.484-06:00Dim Lights, Thick SmokeTo celebrate the death throes of winter and the emergence of the vernal spirit, Austin-based psychonauts <a href="http://theyoungblog.tumblr.com/">The Young</a> have prepared a months worth of electrified bacchanalia. Over each weekend of February, a far-reaching collection of hazy souls work themselves into amplified fury in search for specific abstract truths. <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/">Sungod</a> are among the second presentation of these celestial sound-fields.<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">[</span><span style="color: cyan;">Hotel Vegas (Austin, TX) </span><span style="color: yellow;">,</span><span style="color: cyan;"> 2013-02-08 (9:00 post meridiem)</span><span style="color: yellow;">]</span></b><br />
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The Sungod Energy-Orchestra shall incarnate as a four piece, with the now familiar yet vital additions of Kristine Reaume and Nick Lombard. The ritual comprises two distinct movements: The first, as of this writing, is the newest Sungod composition and finds us returning to spaced out fuzz mantras over primitive psych-drum machinations; yet be prepared for a radical dive into the soul of fire music as we reach in earnest for the sounds of the pyramids. The second movement splits the way between drift-studies of an eternal sadness and demonic riff incantations of arcing lazer fire and metallic rhythm-shimmer. A classic soft-to-loud escalation into black hole waves of radiation splendour as spidery, melancholic guitar weaves and flute percolations build into a plodding doomscape of voluminous fog.<br />
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Braden Balentine - Electric Guitar, Percussion, Moog Opus 3, SCI Six-Trak<br />
Nick Lombard - Electric Guitar, Djembe, Drums<br />
Kristine Reaume - Moog Opus 3, SCI Six-Trak, Flute<br />
Mike Sharp - Drums, Electric GuitarThe Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-77129657601891209262013-01-16T00:06:00.000-06:002013-01-16T17:39:32.628-06:00Desert Wave RefractionIn the coming days, the four-power-piece incarnation of the Sungod shall materialize the vessel of continuous transformation. Employing spectral waves of minimalist sound architecture, the Sungod energy ship will reign in the darkness of cosmic light alongside the acoustic stylings of <a href="http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/260">Daniel Bachman</a> and avant-space stylings of Ian McColm.<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">[</span><span style="color: cyan;">Avant Garden (Houston, TX) </span><span style="color: yellow;">, </span><span style="color: cyan;">2013-01-17 (8:00 post meridiem)</span><span style="color: yellow;">]</span></b><br />
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Braden Balentine: Sequencing, Moog Strings, Electric Slide Guitar<br />
Nick Lombard: Farfisa Organ<br />
Kristine Reaume: Flute<br />
Mike Sharp: Acoustic Slide Guitar, Electric Slide Guitar, Fingerpicked Electric Guitar<br />
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<br />The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-13547714844452045652012-11-19T22:54:00.001-06:002012-12-01T11:56:35.024-06:00Yesod: The Pure IntelligenceWithin the multitudinous volumes of pure nothingness separating the disparate particles of physical reality, there exists a medium. A medium not of rational science or ecstatic spiritualism, nor of any other mode of sentient thought, yet surrounding all and becoming, by way of pure reflection. This aether of the vacuum emanates from the victorious love of Netsach and the mercurial force of Hod as Yesod, the Astral Light. A realm of pure change and stability and thus the very soul of dynamic equilibrium, Yesod provides the foundation upon which the physical world rests. Yet the colors and sounds, the entire spectrum of quantum possibilities, refract through Yesod's surface in strange ways, bending at impossible angles, vibrating in cacophonous modes, and oscillating at imaginary frequencies. As the moon reflects the light of the sun, Yesod reflects conscious existence and the perceived stability of sensual reality. Of this world and not, explored by mystics, psychonauts, and the insane, Yesod shimmers in the potentiality of everything.<br />
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The binary core of the Sungod sound-ship has spent the past terrestrial cycle exploring this dimension of energetic flow and generative emptiness. Stripped of all satellites, the duo traveled further into the reaches of their collective inner space than ever before. In the abstracting passages through strange corridors of the astral plane, the known forms of Sungod's solar musick were expanded, enhanced, and distorted into rituals of unexplainable origin and often terrifying power. Interstellar islands of teutonic psychedelia surrounded by nebulous seas of droning experimentalism, for the duo's familiar magickal method expanded into transcendent twilit sessions of improvised delirium. Drug-state instant compositions melding with spherical explorations of kosmische singularity; atonal mesmer shimmering around cores of riffing fire. These revelatory experiences were documented upon magnetic tape and edited into a non-linear and continuous exposition of Yesod's vacuous vortex. Disparate threads woven together in a five moment suite of universal adoration and cosmic exaltation.<br />
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And so we present Sungod's <b><span style="color: yellow;">Crash Galactic</span></b>. <a href="http://etherealmother.bandcamp.com/">Ethereal Mother Tapes</a> has graciously pressed this excessive wandering into the post-modern abyss. Though we've been spiritually aligned for many, many years, this marks the first collision between the Rainbow Bridge and Ethereal Mother bio-ships. One hundred stereo compact discs imprison seventy minutes of digitized wave fronts, and reside in a DVD style amaray sleeve. A full color and hand numbered insert contains release information and a declaration of artistic intent.</div>
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<span style="color: yellow;"><b>Crash Galactic</b></span> also marks Sungod's third collaboration with visual artist Justin Grove. His exceptional work has previously decorated our <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/first-matter">First Matter</a> LP and <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether">Cuts from the Ether</a> CS. The <span style="color: yellow;"><b>Crash Galactic</b></span> spread seems his most powerful yet. A seamless expanse of cool atmospherics, blinding spiritualist white light, and stardust fields of gloomy murk.</div>
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">1. </span><span style="color: cyan;">Constellation of Ions</span></b></div>
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A gentle static hiss emerges from the electromagnetic vacuum as rolling waves of six string ambiance crash gently upon a primordial shore. Warbly, woozy synth patterns invert the threads of reality and mystical wind instruments dance in a physical sea of soothing hypnotism. Opiated bop percussion and horror-themed bass pulses take control, driving the body of sound into subtle spheres of grandeur as simulated horn swells speak to a heavenly symphony. As the rhythm suddenly departs, space age drones decay into a primitive wall of harmonium flame. Decrepit laser beams signal a crumbling spaghetti western crawl, as emotive and increasingly engaging acoustic guitar scratches lines into the sun-baked desert sand. Amid the atonal fallout of a nuclear Moog-cloud, robotic pulses pull the brain across the stereo spectrum, until a sudden crash of propulsive drumming tears into an instrumental kraut-pop romp. Liquid slide guitars glide over descending synth melodies and jangly strumming; trap-kit soaring into the sky. A pause...alien snickering and in-fading analog percolations...explode into melancholic arcs of electro-slide, four-four power, and atmospheres of bubbling electronics.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Electric Guitar, Recorder, SCI Six-Trak, Harmonium, Acoustic Guitar, Slide, Echo<br />
Mike Sharp: SCI Six-Trak, Electric Guitar, Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Moog Opus 3<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Movement II:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">4.</span><span style="color: cyan;"> There's Hell in That Girl</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">5.</span><span style="color: cyan;"> Haze Stations</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">6.</span><span style="color: cyan;"> Days of Amnesia</span></b><br />
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Lazy, hazy strumming and shambolic clanging metal; a dust-caked, whiskey soaked improvised blues exploration. Ever circling a structure, yet seeking never to find it, the six-stringer claws a way towards peace over a sea of bells and achingly beautiful saloon piano. Amidst the wandering American twilight, surprising moments of clarity emerge as the guitar and piano sing together a mourning for something lost. The sun sets and the sky washes over with an unnatural fog of echo-bathed sequencing. Full bodied and blissful electric strumming controls a flow towards euphoric landscapes of gentle intoxication. Twinkling piano emerges, playing with and against the blue glow of guitar ambiance. Kinetic and subdued free-jazz percussion oozes into the sound field, mesmerizing the senses with endless motion. The end an echo-rift, sudden absence giving birth to noise squalls of feedback fury. Distorto-phased riffadelics into the heart of the cave-mind, pounding the Earth with percussive fury. Wah-Wah theatrics explode over psycho-vocalizations, warping into an endless climb across level ground.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Sleigh Bells, Noah Bells, SCI Six-Trak, Moog Opus 3, Piano, Electric Guitar, Wah-Wah, Fuzz, Echo<br />
Mike Sharp: Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Whiskey, Electric Guitar, Drums, Fuzz, Shakers, Voice<br />
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<b style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Movement III:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">7. </span><span style="color: cyan;">Inda's Net and Bell's Theorem</span></b><br />
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Wake into asteroid caverns in the deepest space, torturous liquid dropping from the inner surfaces of skulls. Disembodied spirits discuss the purpose of thought, language, love...a cruel colloquy amidst the alien solitude. Synth-spirits condense into solid forms of abstract terror. Piano-mallet malevolence growing under increasingly discordant screams across a black sky. Climbing arpeggiated madness in the fight against undulating waves of dissonant drone-walls, waning to a buzzing coda of hyperborean stillness.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Samples, SCI Six-Trak, Moog Opus 3<br />
Mike Sharp: Piano<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">8. </span><span style="color: cyan;">Shimmering Light (Pure Religion)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">9. </span><span style="color: cyan;">Crash Galactic</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">10. </span><span style="color: cyan;">The Infinite Regress</span></b><br />
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A vaporous expanse of lo-fi sequencing; a future-scape in the gardens of pharaohs. Echoing guitar runs and picturesque piano phrases under diaphanous veils of reverb murmur, the whole stream flowing over a reversal of itself, stabbing the surface with time-lag contradictions. A hypnotic sway into the beauty of galactic genesis, fading away into percussive bolts of squelching square wave flux. Crowd chattering amidst buried synthetic orchestration and bending pulsations of electro-guitar skitter. Ascendent streaks of radiant strings and eddying sci-fi oscillations merge with turbulent walls of fuzz destruction and pulsar beam canons. Mutating loops of analog electronics fade into a slumbering, smoldering core of dark strength. As twin guitars circle the singularity in so many spirals, sapphire swathes of futuristic synths bring a climb towards cohesion. Drums and strums emerge to guide the various echoes into a march towards the stars, howling into a roaring cascade of massive rock fury. Organ screaming, unhinged drum smashing over rippling fuzz walls. Solar flare eruption as fuzz-fried leads climb with abandon, setting ablaze the corridors of the mind.<br />
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Braden Balentine: SCI Six-Trak, Moog Opus 3, Electric Guitar, Echo, Fuzz<br />
Mike Sharp: Piano, Electric Guitar, Moog Opus 3, SCI Six-Trak, Acoustic Guitar, Drums<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">11.</span><span style="color: cyan;"> Reggie's Best Phosphate</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">12.</span><span style="color: cyan;"> Ion Ecstacy</span></b><br />
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The dying breaths of some wooden beast, the portentous footsteps of a doomed gigantic sentience. Bells rattle and clammer over soul-shaking low end thunder and wheezing walls of reedy ambiance. Breath fades away into radial streaks of metallic singing; into the prayers of metal concavity. Creeping piano chords underly a haunted choir of Appalachian spirits, until the tranquil, smoldering embers flash into a deep wall of organic iridescence. Tibetan bowls sing over lysergic pads of escalating astral warmth and harmonium pyramids glowing in Moog starlight, fading into the emptiness of silence.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Piano, Sleigh Bells, Harmonium, Prayer Bowl<br />
Mike Sharp: Harmonium, Prayer Bowl, Voice, SCI Six-Trak, Moog Opus 3<br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Portals of Acquisition:</span></b><br />
<a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/crash-galactic">Sungod Bandcamp</a> (Digital Streaming/Download)<br />
<a href="http://etherealmother.bandcamp.com/album/emt006-sungod-crash-galactic">Ethereal Mother Tapes</a> (CD now sold out, digital streaming available)<br />
<a href="http://aquariusrecords.org/"><strike>Aquarius Records</strike></a> (CD Sold Out)<br />
<a href="http://www.normanrecords.com/records/137570-sungod---crash-galactic"><strike>Norman Records</strike> </a>(CD Sold Out)<br />
<a href="http://www.midheaven.com/item/crash-galactic-by-sungod-cd">Midheaven Mailorders</a> (CD)<br />
<a href="http://www.clear-spot.nl/item/379692/sungod_crash_galactic.html">Clear Spot</a> (CD)<br />
<a href="http://www.thearchipelagorises.bigcartel.com/product/sungod-crash-galactic-cd">The Archipelago Rises</a> (CD)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">"We've been meaning to review something from these Texan psychedelic space-kraut heavies for ages now, this one is as</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">good a place to start as any, their latest, a super limited cd-r that finds Sungod traveling the astral plane, and offering up a pretty fair</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">(and extremely varied) sampling of what these guys are capable of, their sound all over the map, but all held together by an underlying</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">kosmische drift, the opener, is a hushed brooding slow build, that wreaths subtle low end shimmer, in clouds of swirling space-aged</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">blips and bloops, total planetarium show trip out, until part way through, when the drums come in, transforming the sound into</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">something much more dense and driving, but still plenty abstract. The second track is a lush expanse of harmonium like drones,</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">pulsing beneath swirling FX and acoustic guitar Appalachia, haunting and meditative, before slipping into the next track, a swirling</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">retro synth groove that would sit pretty perfectly alongside the current crop of retro futuristic synth wranglers. Krautrocky and cosmic!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">The sound shifts dramatically after that, a sort of slow slithery acoustic blues, all slippery slide, laced with piano, and peppered</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">with empty tin can percussion, which gives way to a heady slab of pulsating spaced out synthscapery, all droney, and Necks-like with</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">skittery free jazz drumming, and delicate piano, under clouds of swirling synths, and from there on out, all bets are off, the band</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">slipping easily from super distorted fuzzy kraut flecked garagerock groove, to super abstract collaged ambience, to blown out blissed</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">out freeform noise, to heavy Hawkwind style spacerock freakout, to hazy, druggy musique concrete, to heavy cosmic synthdrone</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">mesmer."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">"Aha. Something cosmic for my ears. Nice! I never heard the cassette by these guys</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">on </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Expo 70</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">’s</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">label</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">that came out a while back but rest assured I wanted to. After a quick</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">scan on the site I can see our Mike heard it and reviewed it! Well here’s a new CD that’s</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">just landed courtesy of Patrick Park aka</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Kosmonaut</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">on his</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Ethereal Mother Tapes</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">imprint.</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">As you’d expect it’s ludicrously limited to 100 copies and it comes in a DVD style case.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">So on this CD you get 70 minutes of krauty kosmische-style dronings with some nice</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">repeato kraut rhythms, some stonking psychedelic riffy rock, some jazz, some ambience,</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">some blues and more than likely some other things I’m too lazy to think of/list. It’s a</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">funny one as there are so many genres touched on here you’d think it wouldn’t work. The</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">chuggy krauty rhythms of ‘Bounded Hessians’ go straight into a blues laden ‘There’s Hell In</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">That Girl’ complete with tinkly sleigh bells and piano. The latter is a gorgeous piece of</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">music by the way. And then before you know it there’s acoustic guitar and cosmic synth</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">sounds. So if you’re into cosmic things then this would be an excellent thing to pick up."</span></span></div>
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We have removed the price requirement on <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether">Cuts From the Ether</a>, so feel free to download this at no cost. In other news, we have completed mixing and received the artwork and master for the follow up to Crash Galactic. More information on that in the future. Otherwise, we continue mixing on the next LP (tentative) and as always, working on new material.<br />
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The thirty spokes join in their nave, that is one; yet the wheel dependeth for use upon the hollow place for the axle. Clay is shapen to make vessels; but the contained space is what is useful. Matter is therefore of use only to mark the limits of the Space which is the thing of real value.</div>
The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-48671747261968996452012-09-22T22:18:00.001-05:002012-09-22T22:18:51.608-05:00Star Souls & Deuterium WavesOver the previous two lunar cycles, radical shifts in the cosmic continuum have left black holes in the physical form of the Sungod energy-ship. In other words, two former participants in the magick ritual have receded into dimensions unknown. As all systems in dynamic equilibrium must, the Sungod orchestra has adapted to the randomness of the universal flow, and shall present a new mode of incantation in the coming days.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">29th Street Ballroom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">2012-09-28 (9:00 post meridiem)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">]</span></b></div>
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Braden Balentine - Synths, Sequencing, Electric Guitar<br />
Nick Lombard - Drums, Synths<br />
Kristine Reaume - Flute<br />
Mike Sharp - Electric Guitar, Drums<br />
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This event marks the first public collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Nick Lombard and the second with Kristine Reaume and her celestial aerophone. In keeping with our typical oscillatory frequency, the musical presentation will feature a novel and unheard duo of perhaps our most astral excursions yet: One, a sparkling, melodic, echo-guitar and flute lead ambient drone-scape climaxing in pounding distorted fury. The other, a sequence driven paean to Messrs <span style="font-family: inherit;">Göttsching and Schulze, layering propulsive rhythms, harmonizing flute/guitar leads, and soaring analog strings.</span></div>
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However, Sungod shall not invoke mother sky alone! Witness also the towering, oppressive electro-pounds of <a href="http://pinkishblack.bandcamp.com/">Pinkish Black</a>, the synth-driven and prog-inflected post-punk of <a href="http://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com/">Nervous Curtains</a>, the pastoral and atmospheric ukele-folk of <a href="http://emilyscottmusic.bandcamp.com/">Emily Scott</a>, and the multi-faceted, introspective singer-songwriter stylings of <a href="http://begodfrey.com/">B.E Godfrey</a>. An adventurous night of ultraviolet vibrations, shimmering air, and the far reaches of mind-musick.The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-31475825040132988012012-09-16T22:05:00.000-05:002012-09-16T22:10:16.195-05:00Magnetic MomentsWe received a transmission from sunship <a href="http://etherealmother.blogspot.com/">Ethereal Mother</a> that confirms genesis of the <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/crash-galactic">Crash Galactic</a> energy discs. Sungod's electrosonic declaration of universal illumination will enter attainable zones of space and time within 20 passages of the Sun across the sky. Full details to follow closer to that event.<br />
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To celebrate the eminence of attainment, we first present Justin Grove's valiant, grandiose, and hauntingly expressive visual abstraction of the soundfields currently being written into optical rainbows:<br />
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Following this, we offer another vibration ritual for early consumption.<b> "There's Hell in that Girl"</b>, beginning with a door emphatically closing and a sense of shutting out the here and now, initiates the second movement of the <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/crash-galactic">Crash Galactic</a> flow. An improvised blues guitar stomp, anchored by a sea of bells, and starlight shimmers of piano counter-melody, gives a sense of endless windswept meadows under a deep blue sky; of the bored stares of cattle grazing along a lazy summer stream; of the narcotic escape of shade from the dominance of a swollen mid-afternoon sun. Drift on the flows of arcadian bliss.<br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Mike Sharp:</span></b> Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Whiskey<br />
<b><span style="color: yellow;">Braden Balentine:</span></b> Sleigh Bells, Noah Bells, Door<br />
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Pre-order's for Crash Galactic remain available through the <a href="http://etherealmother.bandcamp.com/album/emt006-sungod-crash-galactic">Ethereal Mother Bandcamp</a> for 8 bio-survival tickets.<br />
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More information coming soon regarding a new release on <a href="http://holodeckrecords.com/">Holodeck Records</a> and a show on 2012-09-28 with <a href="http://pinkishblack.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-lp">Pinkish Black</a> and <a href="http://nervouscurtains.bandcamp.com/">Nervous Curtains</a>.<br />
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<br />The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-48890312074640232702012-08-04T00:25:00.000-05:002012-08-04T00:29:20.589-05:00Sungod/August 4th Show UpdateA quick heads up, <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/">Sungod</a> will <b><span style="color: cyan;">NOT</span></b> play the <a href="http://therainbowbridgeblues.blogspot.com/2012/07/heat-visions.html">aforementioned</a> Red 7 show on August the 4th.<br />
Finding no significance in the "why", I'll merely state that the hypno-priests shall reincarnate nearer to the autumnal equinox. Stay tuned for more informative transmissions in the eminent future.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Red 7 Outside Stage</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">2012-08-04 (9:00 post mere diem)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">]</span></b></div>
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Tyler Taylor - Electric Guitar</div>
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Edited together from a years worth of compositions and improvisations, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Sungod's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"> <b><a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/crash-galactic">Crash Galactic</a></b></span> presents a 70 minute, near continuous study in sequenced kraut forms, avant-garde sound design, transcendent blues, tenebrous ambiance, riffadelic drug rock, and supernal jazz. </div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">The Rite in Twelve Parts:</span></b></div>
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1. Constellation of Ions</div>
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4. There's Hell in that Girl</div>
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5. Haze Stations</div>
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6. Days of Amnesia</div>
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10. The Infinite Regress</div>
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11. Reggie's Best Phosphate</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Braden Balentine:</span> Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Moog Opus 3, SCI Six Trak, Piano, Noah Bells, Sleigh Bells, Harmonium, Singing Bowl, Echo, WahWah, Fuzz<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Mike Sharp:</span> Drums, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, SCI Six Trak, Moog Opus 3, Human Voice, Echo, Fuzz, Shakers, Singing Bowl</span></div>
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An amaray DVD case will house a stereo audio disc with an expressionistic and highly engaging full cover spread by resonant starchild Justin Grove. </div>
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</center><center><br /></center><center style="text-align: left;"><b>"Bounded Hessians"</b> culminates the first movement of <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Crash Galactic's</span></b> hallucinatory unfolding. One can expect a concise, kaleidoscopic trip exploring Germanic sequencing through the lens of 1960's psychedelia, mashing together robotic synth pulses, strummed acoustic, motorik percussion, electric slide, and kosmische arpeggiators.</center><center style="text-align: left;"><br /></center><center><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="100" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=2191134432/size=venti/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=f8f020/transparent=true/" style="display: block; height: 100px; position: relative; width: 400px;" width="400">&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://etherealmother.bandcamp.com/track/haze-stations-2"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Haze Stations by Sungod&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;</iframe></center><center><br /></center>
<center style="text-align: left;">Head over to the Ethereal Mother Tapes <a href="http://etherealmother.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> for an additional album preview in the form of <b>"Haze Stations"</b>. Percolating galaxial electronics generate a cloud of ambiance over which warm and round guitar chords and twinkling piano dance in cinematic interplay. Skittery, cymbal laden percussion boils under the surface, progressively growing more intense as the celestial metal work evolves into animalistic, yet restrained free jazz intensity.</center><center style="text-align: left;"><br /></center>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-40871037549145546232012-06-30T20:37:00.001-05:002012-06-30T20:37:40.860-05:00Hod: The Absolute IntelligenceAs great winds of energy in forms both known and unknowable blow across the seas of existence, as all things whatsoever dance in rapturous cacophony to the blind metronome of an illogical metaphysical mechanics, the will of the cosmos is executed: extension, multiplication, and force. This creative drive inherent in the blind procession of the ages, this sparkling aether of multiplicity, variety, and change emerges from the bosom of Hod, the Hermitic Splendour. Hod is the realm of the solar primates, the ape like entities seemingly primitive, yet possessing souls in constant communion with Godhead, Manasaputras, the Mind-born Sons of Brahma. And thus the humans, material reflections of these solar-beings, possess energy centers in dynamic conversation with the intuitive weave of consciousness that is not conscious. Mere surrender to the connection, the recognition of the void within all, yields ways to the very heart of creative generation.<br />
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Ever seeking the paths toward expanded awareness, and un-fearingly trusting in the health and sustainability of the divine connection within the human-vessel, the distinct energy fields comprising Sungod enacted a ceremony of vibrations in an attempt to open a gate to Hod for all who would participate. The space-time coordinates of this event were [KVRX Austin, 20110821] and the energy fields materialized as Braden Balentine, Mike Sharp, Tyler Taylor, and Alex Hughes. Boarding the archaic conveyance vehicles from this period of Earth's time-travel and armed with various means of pressure wave genesis, the Four traveled to a dwelling possessing the necessary connections to the satellite-field comprising unseen orbitals...the communication net of the Earthship. 3.27 meter wavelength E/M waves were the employed form of sonic distribution and the guardians of the satellite uplink captured a binaural rendering of the ceremony via conversion of the source waves to discrete impulse signals. Ingesting the Anhalonium Lewinii, the Four guided along vibrant color rings, employing forms of space, drone, and jazz to ebb and flow towards an infinite spiral of light and sound. The actual unfolding of the vibration ritual achieved an unexpected potency, requiring the eventual mass duplication of this musical incantation for preservation and dispersal.<br />
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Thus, in cooperation with <a href="http://dustygrassimprint.blogspot.com/">Dusty Grass Imprint</a>, we present <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">Sungod's <b>Cuts from the Ether</b></span>:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">A1</span> - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">"Gas is Better than Gas"</span></b></span><br />
A militant technoid sequence anchors a contained explosion of post-krautrock forms. Interweaving threads of metronomic acid guitar glide over teutonic percussive destruction and sparse, yet vivacious low end patterns lock in and out of the rhythm-storm. Rising and falling in tumultuous cycles, yet steadily decaying from a bombastic glory to a muted stretch of chilled ambience, it is a study in the motion of stasis, ever guided by dynamic cymbal strikes and alien synth squelches.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Electric Guitar, Wah Wah, Tonebender, Echo<br />
Alex Hughes: Bass Guitar<br />
Mike Sharp: Drums, Synthesizer<br />
Tyler Taylor: Electric Guitar, Echo<br />
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Pulsing oscillations from the heart of the Earth climb and thicken over soft textures of nebulous synth. The harmonium maintains a universal hum as bells and subtle guitar swells magnify the textural diversity. Slow, hypnotic synths emerge just as the track fades into a false discontinuity.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Harmonium<br />
Alex Hughes: Noah Bells, Sleigh Bells<br />
Mike Sharp: Synthesizer, Cymbals<br />
Tyler Taylor: Electric Guitar, Echo<br />
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Emerging from the vacuous rift of a sudden fade in, the hypno-synth climbs in intensity as guitar swells mutate and contort into a black web of celestial drone. Crashing and narcotic bop-percussion leads the journey to a moment of sudden climax, as omnipresent waves of electro-haze and thundering funk pulses announce a sphere of reality wholly shimmering in a moody, blue glow. All thoughts, all emotions, are drawn to this sphere, and the cosmic-jazz dances and cascades into and around the surface, working into a dense fog of transcendental galactic sound.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Synthesizer<br />
Alex Hughes: Bass Guitar, Noah Bells, Sleigh Bells<br />
Mike Sharp: Drums, Synthesizer<br />
Tyler Taylor: Electric Guitar, Echo<br />
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A monumental charge of domination, drums pounding all thought into silence, leading a charge into fearful dimensions of power. Regal chords seemingly work towards some prog majesty, yet the forms flow instead into an electro-surf voyage. Rippling echowave guitar sequences and lysergic synth lines soar over streamlined interlockings of low end rhythm, rising intensely and suddenly to a howling distorto-rock fury. Riff upon riff tearing through a muscular propulsive attack as noise clouds rain down in unstoppable multitudes. As quick as it began, all falls into an agitated motorik Tempel-groove, eventually tearing its way into a driving climax. But the heart of the dark must be faced, and so the bowels of every hell open and absolute sonic destruction reigns.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Electric Guitar, Wah Wah, Tonebender, Echo<br />
Alex Hughes: Bass Guitar<br />
Mike Sharp: Drums<br />
Tyler Taylor: Synthesizer<br />
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<a href="http://dustygrassimprint.blogspot.com/">Dusty Grass Imprint</a> (cassette)<br />
<a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether">Sungod Bandcamp</a> (digital streaming/download)<br />
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To conclude, we have added all of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;"><b>Sungod's "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others"</b></span> to the <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/laurentide-cordilleran-others">Sungod Bandcamp</a>. Available for streaming and free download to any and all who would like to hear this collection of shambling acoustic minimalism and extended kosmische exploration. As well, note the new appearance of the Sungod Bandcamp, portending in its own subtle way the next port of call for the Sungod starship.<br />
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When soul and body are in the bond of love, they can be kept together. By concentration on the breath it is brought to perfect elasticity, and one becomes as a babe.</div>
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Here is the Mystery of Virtue. It createth all and nourisheth all; yet it doth not adhere to them; it operateth all, but knoweth not of it, nor proclaimeth it; it directeth all, but without conscious control.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-37620971740629112112012-06-10T19:16:00.000-05:002012-06-10T19:17:45.122-05:00Subtle OscillationsAs Taurus gives way to Gemini (according to the Sidereal Zodiac), so shall musical abstractions materialize into a physical presentation of acoustic wave generation. The coordinates <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">29th Street Ballroom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">2012-06-16</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">]</span> </b>mark an event in space-time, a striving for the oneness by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/the-young-1">The Young</a>, <a href="http://spraypaint.bandcamp.com/">Spraypaint</a>, and <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether">Sungod</a>. Of particular note, this marks the release for The Young's DUB EGG on Matador Records.<br />
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Four individuals guiding the Sungod starship shall employ a continuos stream of disjoint psychedelic forms, moving through the gaseous vapors of gentle blues, the black hole terror of droning noise, and the salvation of supernovae eruptions of low frequency kosmische jazz. </div>
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<b>CUTS FROM THE ETHER UPDATE</b><br />
Dusty Grass Imprint has Sungod's CUTS FROM THE ETHER to hand. Visit the <a href="http://dustygrassimprint.blogspot.com/">Dusty Grass blog</a> to purchase a copy. We'll have them for sale at the show mentioned above along with the <a href="http://therainbowbridgeblues.blogspot.com/2012/04/netsach-occult-intelligence.html">Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others</a> tape and the few remaining copies of the <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/first-matter">First Matter LP</a>. A shot from the shipment:<br />
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One more quick note. We have completed the mixing (and possibly mastering) of Sungod's next epic and have a label confirmed for a typically limited pressing. Much more information to come on this soon but it stands as our longest and most diverse outing so far, crashing in and out of a galactic mix of jazz, drone, avant-garde soundscapes, bubbly krautrock, free blues, and riffing space rock.</div>
<br />The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-33162808866781792752012-04-22T15:20:00.000-05:002012-04-22T17:48:47.938-05:00Netsach: The Occult IntelligenceThus we land on the seventh Sephirah. The completion of the upper and middle triads begins the full projection of the divine intelligence onto the forms of matter. How fortuitous then to fall on an update bringing news of our own projections onto matter of the creative will. Victory, eternity, triumph. Upon the wings of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Nicé</span></span> comes the bounty of a creative harvest begun over a cycle ago of this orb's keplerian trajectory. And so presented, in inertial totality, the <a href="http://www.exposeventy.com/sonicmeditations/" target="_blank">Sonic Meditations</a> press of Sungod's "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others"!<br />
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"We’ve got this Sungod tape in from Justin Wright’s Sonic Meditations label this week. In it Braden Balentine and Mike Sharp multi-instrumentalise their way around a variety of tones from electric guitar and synthesiser through to bells, bowed symbols, prayer bowl and the like, drawing out heady mystical drones with subtle underlying melodic and textural flourishes that mix the crunchy and physical with the smooth and cosmic for a bonged out space drone voyage with a marvelous thickness and clarity of tone quickly marking it out as a spacious and luxurious psychedelic treat. It’s concordant and melodic and the tunes are well paced to reveal themselves over prolonged and in-depth listening, and there’s so much going on texturally that I’m totally transfixed. Unsurprisingly it’s reminding me a little of Expo 70. Beatless, languid psychedelic drifting which is busy without seeming imposing, big-sounding but not in your face. Cosmic ambience it may be, but it’s more than background music. It’s music to listen to in close detail after you’ve got so high you’re starting to worry you might be stuck that way forever."</div>
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The great victory of the sky continues. Sungod has two appearances within the next 7 degrees travel along Earth's gravity-path. These will feature the maxima of magickal energy as Alex Hughes and Tyler Taylor respectively contribute sub-sonic groove fields and riffadelic acidity to the communal search for the sky-eye. If I may momentarily step outside of the mystical crap, these are KILLER shows.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Spacetime Coordinates:</span></b> The Mohawk - Austin, TX. 730/1030 post meridiem<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Biosurvival Cost:</span></b> 12<br />
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Sungod (1230)<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">White Hilles (1115)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">La Migra (1030)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sleepy Sun (900)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Saint James Society (815)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hidden Ritual (730)</span><br />
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Disappears<br />
Lotus Plaza<br />
Nervous Curtains<br />
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As the cow Goddess departs, the last of the fruits of harvest are as such: labor continues on the proper follow up to First Matter. We move further and further into the mixing stage with various small odds and ends still left to magnetically imprison. What's more, a structure has emerged giving the whole process the necessary goal towards which we approach ever faster, ever surer. As always, more news to come on that as appropriate.</div>
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Lastly, the Dusty Grass press of Sungod's "Cuts from the Ether" works towards completion and will attain form (with hope) within the transition from Taurus to Gemini. Be well brothers and sisters.</div>
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Gold and jade endanger the house of their possessor. Wealth and honours lead to arrogance and envy, and bring ruin. Is thy way famous and thy name becoming distinguished? Withdraw, they work once done, into obscurity; this is the way of Heaven.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-25129691428287620252012-04-04T16:32:00.001-05:002012-04-04T16:32:39.588-05:00Mike Sharp, ApartI meant to post this last week, so this doesn't give much notice but I hope that those who can go, will.<br />
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Mike, parallel to our communal path in Sungod, has worked diligently to develop his own voice in the fields of American primitive and traditional blues guitar. This, together with an increasing interest in percussive and groove-based musics (funk and jazz of note) and my own explorations into electronic and drone based sound fields, allows for ever-exciting developments in Sungod's creative trajectory. But beyond this, following his development as a stand-alone musician continues to reward deep interest. I sense genuine historical appreciation in the playing, but without weighty formalisms. Instead, pure inspiration and an intuitive connection to the instrument reign, diversified by a modern taste for the broad range of developments in avant-garde music. Simply put, fans of Fahey, Rose, Jones, Pelt, and a host of obscure blues players only Sharp could name would do well to keep an ear to the ground concerning Mike's development beyond the Sungod mothership. Tomorrow marks the first opportunity to do just that.The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-5359338470140450972012-03-11T21:07:00.004-06:002012-03-12T13:14:57.965-06:00Happenings: SXSW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqsQ6x1kSpWFZMJD4SYRhM7KxjDAndcqtf8YDd3klFahBMcoUbF5uaMj-e2fsVp1UjMxOfTVyZcpLzbB4C7tV3iCTkXv2qshL1FssfnbYoG9GPuzG-8EqBONrAbD9xGjwUUjq81THw8HA/s1600/nnf02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUqsQ6x1kSpWFZMJD4SYRhM7KxjDAndcqtf8YDd3klFahBMcoUbF5uaMj-e2fsVp1UjMxOfTVyZcpLzbB4C7tV3iCTkXv2qshL1FssfnbYoG9GPuzG-8EqBONrAbD9xGjwUUjq81THw8HA/s400/nnf02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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</b></span></div>Once again, amplified whisperings of the cosmic microwave background. Sungod, incarnate as the ever stable triangle, shall project onto silence sound paintings of electrified blues, deep motorik rock and jangly sunspots of the summer of love. We head out among the stars around 9:00 post meridian. Come join us for a sublime evening of cosmic music.<br />
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The line-up for this set:<br />
Braden Balentine: Electric Guitar, Synthesizers<br />
Mike Sharp: Drums, Electric Guitar, Slide<br />
Tyler Taylor: Electric Guitar<br />
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Sapphire Slows (<a href="http://sapphireslows.bandcamp.com/">http://sapphireslows.bandcamp.com/</a>)<br />
Cuticle (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZLTPSReUk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZLTPSReUk</a>)<br />
Samantha Glass (<a href="http://samanthaglass.bandcamp.com/">http://samanthaglass.bandcamp.com/</a>)<br />
Single Lash (<a href="http://singlelash.bandcamp.com/">http://singlelash.bandcamp.com/</a>)<br />
Sungod (<a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/">http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/</a>)<br />
Future Museums (<a href="http://futuremuseums.bandcamp.com/">http://futuremuseums.bandcamp.com/</a>)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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</span></div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-42262934200345285842012-02-18T13:07:00.006-06:002012-02-19T16:34:41.842-06:00Constellation of Ions & Other InformationFade in billowing clouds of guitar ambiance and swirls of electronic phasing. Burst through with Art Blakey soaked in codeine jamming with some metaphysical amalgamate of Czukay and Waters. Groove bombs dropping, rapturous synthesizer echowave fallout. Fade away bell meditation and alien jungle.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mike Sharp: Drums, Synth</div><div style="text-align: center;">Alex Hughes: Bass, Bells</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tyler Taylor: Guitar</div><div style="text-align: center;">Braden Balentine: Synth</div></div></div><div><br />
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</b></span></center><center style="text-align: left;">As of this week, Sungod's "Cuts from the Ether" readies for production. All tracks now mastered and in transit to the label. If the workings of the universe permit it, we would like to have this available by SXSW...pure optimism. Preliminary information including tracklist and lineup:</center><center style="text-align: left;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: left;">Sungod's Bandcamp:</center><center style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether">http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/cuts-from-the-ether</a></center><center style="text-align: left;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: left;">Dusty Grass Imprint:</center><center style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://dustygrassimprint.bandcamp.com/">http://dustygrassimprint.bandcamp.com/</a></center><center style="text-align: left;"><br />
</center><center style="text-align: left;">A detailed write up concerning the release and KVRX session will come as the tapes arrive to hand.</center><center style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: yellow; font-size: xx-large;">.......</b></center><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The Sonic Meditations repress of Sungod's "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others" could potentially arrive by the end of this month. Soon anyway. A <a href="http://therainbowbridgeblues.blogspot.com/2011/03/kether-crown-sungod-presents-laurentide.html">previous post</a> stores all the relevant information concerning the release but we will keep in touch here regarding availability. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: yellow; font-size: xx-small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Concluding, some short videos from two Sungod live performances. The first contains some cosmic drone from our recent set at the Carousel Lounge. The second captures a moment from our very first appearance and features some magnificent (and close up) cymbal work by Mike Sharp. Both shot by Brian Boeckman. Be well.</div></div><br />
<center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="265" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36153973?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe><br />
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</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="265" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36132239?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe></center>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-57648456859644824692012-02-04T12:06:00.000-06:002012-02-04T12:06:11.802-06:00Psychotropic Elephas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the absence of any significant news, I would like to share some excellent photographs from Sungod's recent evening of psychodrone at the Carousel Lounge. All photographs courtesy of Brian Boeckman.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</b></span></div>On the 26th day of this current lunar cycle, Sungod shall materialize as two distinct intertwinings of soul and flesh, of consciousness and matter, of mind and body, to act as a sonic-conduit for a specific instant of the Universe's creative urge. The magickal operation initiating the exposition of sound shall proceed without the use of physical and percussive acoustics; instead, the two receivers of the transmission shall rebroadcast using vibrational, magnetic, and oscillatory means of electromagnetic wave generation. Analog synthesis, six string flux devices, time distortion, and vacuum tube circuitry only, to supply directed manipulation of local air pressure for the duration of a 15° rotation of our communal gravity-vessel. The location of this spacetime event allows the conveyance and consumption of externally sourced Bacchic fluids to assist telepathic connections. Expect percolating Teuto-electronics, black hole drones, acid-fried guitar explorations, and beauteous drifts into comforting envelopes of light and sound.<br />
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</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We have completed the artwork for Sungod's <i>Cuts from the Ether</i>, the first live document of our 4-piece sound collective. More coming on that as soon as the tapes go to press, but for now, a taste of the layout featuring Justin Grove's hypnotic line work. I am convinced the path to enlightenment lies somewhere in contemplation of the astral webwork of rays and curves.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Admire thou the High Way of Water! Is not Water the soul of the life of things, whereby they change? Yet it seeketh its level, and abideth content in obscurity. So also it resembleth the Tao, in this Way thereof!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The virtue of a house is to be well-placed; of mind, to be at ease in silence as of Space; of societies, to be well-disposed; of governments, to maintain quietude; of work, to be skilfully performed; and of all motion, to be made at the right time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also it is the virtue of a man to abide in his place without discontent; thus he offendeth no man.</div><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></span>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-76376174759455262862012-01-09T14:42:00.004-06:002012-01-09T14:51:20.963-06:00First Matter LPs available on BandcampDescending, as well all must, to converse upon the droll topic of commerce...it has come to my attention that Bandcamp now allows the sale of the physical, inertia possessing counterpart to the digitized media they host. Owing to this and until they run out, twenty-one copies of the First Matter LP, the last of our personal stash, reside <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/album/first-matter">there</a> for monetary exchange.<br />
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"Time lapse sequences of photographs taken with a special low-light 4K-camera by the crew of expedition 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011."<br />
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Happened to view this alongside the demo version of "Come Down Easy" from <i>Forged Prescriptions</i>...oddly perfect.The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-23935189502113781112011-12-22T22:00:00.008-06:002011-12-23T00:44:30.314-06:00Geburah: The Radical Intelligence<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yAVdArptF_GIM3x9IXIvvmHBRd3VyymkcamUBNHSbto2tmYjmUh_EhW4weaQEEyWwuYp0WwbfGhE63KrGcA_fgWjzLGuiyAyuw-zhYgmKdrkJ_1d6ToiUeNYBCWOLo4_i6UELBugK2fk/s1600/DSCF2644.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0yAVdArptF_GIM3x9IXIvvmHBRd3VyymkcamUBNHSbto2tmYjmUh_EhW4weaQEEyWwuYp0WwbfGhE63KrGcA_fgWjzLGuiyAyuw-zhYgmKdrkJ_1d6ToiUeNYBCWOLo4_i6UELBugK2fk/s400/DSCF2644.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: yellow; font-size: xx-large;">.......</b></div><br />
Sungod continues laboring at a slow but sure pace, compiling ever more audio incantations to satisfy an as yet unstated force of collective will. Seven crumbling and decaying magnetic memory spirals hold an estimated five hours of universal sound captured between the summer and winter solstices. Thus far, ten completed pieces occupy an hour's temporal breadth. This concentrated manifestation of creation will serve to generate the interest of wide dispersion to the inhabitants of this communal starship, Earth. In the meantime, we continue our Great Work without lust for result, living only in the glory of the present and letting the unconscious dictate the terms of forward movement.<br />
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We shall speak more to the content and how our sound progresses when this mass of vibrations assumes more coherent forms. We hope to have enough workable material for several releases taken from the same body of waves, but it remains difficult to speak concretely before everything nears completion. I can say that it represents our finest and most diverse artistic statements thus far and channels everything we love of the exploratory cosmic music of the last 40 years, whether that be krautrock, minimilism, free/spiritual jazz, droning ambience, Berlin school electronics, or the pan-rhythmic excursions of the African continent.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The repress of "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others" on Sonic Meditations will see release within the next couple of months. Details on that as we know more, but for now, check out this nice write up describing the background of the repress and the music itself:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In other release related news, we have completed mixing Sungod's KVRX radio performance from August 2011. This session features extended versions of some new material and serves as the first documentation of the Sungod live band (featuring Alex Hughes on bass/bells and Tyler Taylor on synthesizers and additional guitars). We will post a lot more information as things finalize, but on our end we have only to master the music and finish the layout. It will be released at some point on Jason Sheehy's fledgling Dusty Grass imprint as a limited cassette (check out his great blog <a href="http://threemilesfromspace.blogspot.com/">Three Miles from Space</a> for a diverse and frequently updated collection of starry jams).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Heaven and Earth are mighty in continuance, because their work is delivered from the lust of result.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thus also the sage, seeking not any goal, attaineth all things; he doth not interfere in the affairs of his body, and so that body acteth without friction. It is because he meddleth not with personal aims that these come to pass with simplicity.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-85591395208987165412011-08-11T12:22:00.006-05:002011-12-22T23:51:12.430-06:00Chesed: Initiate the Potencies of ConstructionDo you feel the mass of positive vibrations emanating from our humble region of space time?<br />
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On Friday the 19th of August, <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/releases">Sungod</a>, <a href="http://survive.bandcamp.com/">S U R V I V E</a>, and <a href="http://thousandfootwhaleclaw.com/">Thousand Foot Whale Claw</a> shall sanctify the <a href="http://www.spiderhousecafe.com/index.php">29th Street Ballroom</a> with successive electro-sonic rituals. Passage into the ceremonial chambers begins at 9:00 post meridiem and ends with the communal invocation of Pan Pangenitor.<br />
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The flow of space-time appears to mean very little in the trance state, but an approximate sequence of events has <a href="http://thousandfootwhaleclaw.com/">Thousand Foot Whale Claw</a> performing at 10:00 post meridiem, <a href="http://ssssssungoddddd.bandcamp.com/releases">Sungod</a> at 11:15 post meridiem, and <a href="http://survive.bandcamp.com/">S U R V I V E</a> at 12:30 ante meridiem. Enlightenment comes at the price of 5 bio-survival tickets.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Following a mere blink of the cosmic eye, KVRX shall convert Sungod into ~3.27 meter electromagnetic waves on the evening of Sunday August 21st. Tune your e/m radiation receiver's frequencey modulation dial to 91.7 million cycles per second, on or near that point in the Earth's rotation we label 10:00 post meridiem. </div><br />
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The extremely limited drone-out known as "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others" and issued by Sungod for SXSW shall reincarnate, again in cassette form, on Expo '70/Justin Wright's <a href="http://www.exposeventy.com/sonicmeditations/">Sonic Meditations</a>. The electronic soul still travels the seas of <i>the other shore</i> but could materialise in a form recognizable to human consciousness as soon as September 2011. 100 magneto-plastic cassette cartridges will contain the bounty of this soul's energy.<br />
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To conclude, Sungod continues to write and record the follow up to First Matter. Over 2 hours of unconscious inspiration lie imprinted on strips of ferromagnetic iron oxide waiting on further manipulation and distortion. More to report on that as things progress. Be well!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Te is the immortal energy of the Tao, its feminine aspect. Heaven and Earth issued from her Gate; this Gate is the Root of their World-Sycamore. Its operation is of pure Joy and Love, and faileth never.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-45013963987117697442011-05-10T01:24:00.000-05:002011-05-10T01:24:40.186-05:00Binah: The Sanctifying IntelligenceAt first glance, it seems a waste to use one of the most divine emanations on an update with no real substance. We continue to face technological obstacles in the form of an 8-track that more resembles a large furnace fueled only by bio-survival tickets. Fortunately, it appears as if it will return to us in a months time. The intervening period has not been idle. The recent Laurentide & Cordilleran release belongs to a larger body of work representing a period of intense creativity and focus in Sungod's musical development. Once again tethered to the often frustrating and subtly cruel cassette 4-track, we've honed and progressed our sound into ever widening and divergent sonic avenues. But the threads are never severed and a potent cosmic melancholy pervades and unites the vibrations. The sound, being both continuous and unbounded, can smoothly approach infinity, never reaching, but always carrying forward. As Binah recieves and gives form to Chokmah, that energizing element of existence, that reality underlying all things whatsoever, so we have received and given shape to the intuitive and purely creative force of the subconscious.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Returning to Earth, this translates to a wealth of new material that we'll put to tape over the course of 2011. Without going into too many details, we have been approached to release something on a label both of us respect and enjoy, so we've been compiling and demoing a batch of compositions and improvisations. We also plan to commence production on a follow up LP to First Matter, which we hope to record during the summer and fall. As before, it will be self recorded. The plan is for a massive 2xLP (if some one is interested in pressing it, of course!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Heaven and earth proceed without motive, but casually in their order of nature, dealing with all things carelessly, like used talismans. So also the sages deal with their people, not exercising benevolence, but allowing the nature of all to move without friction.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The space between heaven and earth is their breathing apparatus. Exhalation is not exhaustion, but the complement of inhalation, and this equally of that. Speech exhausteth; guard thyself therefore, maintaining the perfect freedom of thy nature.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-23694588823297605072011-03-24T10:41:00.005-06:002011-08-11T22:57:43.250-05:00Chokmah: "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others" Available for DownloadNOTE (08/11/11): As Sonic Meditations plans to rerelease this in the fall of 2011, we have taken down all but one track from the bandcamp. You may continue to download all of <i>First Matter </i>at no cost.<br />
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The virtual representation of Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others is available for streaming/download at Sungod's bandcamp. Drop in:<br />
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FLAC/MP3/whatever you want, files of all artwork included in the download.<br />
Same price as the air you breathe.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Tao resembleth the Emptiness of Space; to employ it, we must avoid creating ganglia. Oh Tao, how vast art Thou, Abyss of Abysses, thou Holy Secret Father of All Fatherhoods of Things!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Let us make our sharpness blunt; let us loosen our complexes; let us tone down our brightness to the general obscurity. Oh Tao, how still art though, how pure, continuous One beyond Heaven!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This Tao hath no Father, it is beyond all other conceptions, higher than the highest.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4353630394416837200.post-17984553333903421262011-03-15T13:30:00.005-06:002011-03-30T19:41:44.298-06:00Kether: Sungod presents "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others"I have been eagerly awaiting posting about Sungod's newest release entitled "Laurentide & Cordilleran + Others". This is a full length cassette featuring about 45 minutes of new music.<br />
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Each issue of this release has been hand crafted entirely by the band. The purple cassette comes wrapped in a hand-sewn cloth pouch inside a manilla envelope. A photograph glued to the front serves as the cover. A two sided, color card-stock and construction paper insert is included as is a photograph from the recording sessions of "Oh Baby, I Love you So". To complete the package, we have included an incense stick for proper atmosphere and a wax seal to close it up.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I want to give a brief description of the actual content of the release. This represents somewhat of a departure from the sounds contained on our First Matter LP. It still remains indebted to our space and krautrock forefathers, but with less rock and much more space.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A1 - "Honey it Ain't No Crime (To Run Off from Home)"</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A poor man's raag for acoustic guitar, harmonium, and contrabass. Wheezing, drunken acoustic drones generate a deep pulse. A cloud of fingerpicked acoustic guitar emerges; sometimes gentle...other times frantic. The three wave sources interweave and dance around one another until the singular moment of samadhi as all become one in the everlasting light.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A2 - "Laurentide"</span></b><br />
A luminous cosmic journey from start to finish. This beautiful slab of electro-drift locates the intersection of electric organ, analog synthesizer, and tremolo guitar and the alchemical marriage of these primal elements approximates the fabled Harmony of the Spheres. Soaring strings combine with lush synth trails as cavernous, pulsating guitar chords move the mind ever closer to total bliss.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Synthesizer, Organ<br />
Mike Sharp: Electric Guitar<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">B1 - "Oh Baby, I Love you So"</span></b><br />
The sound of a door slams as you enter the opium den. The faux-eastern sounds of a detuned and abused esraj lull you into an introspective haze. The clanging bells and arcing streaks of bowed metal disrupt the meditation and the mind is forced to wander amidst abstract fields of acoustic disharmony. Thuds, clangs, plucks, terror.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Bowed Cymbals, Bells, Tibetan Singing Bowl<br />
Mike Sharp: Esraj<br />
Alex Hughes: Contrabass<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">B2: - "Cordilleran"</span></b><br />
A glacial wall of deep synth and organ ambiance surrounds this piece in a sinister glow. Moody echo guitar and synthesized starlight come and go as the sound seemingly approaches the infinite. As one resigns to float forever amidst this dark sonic river, a terrifying crash of detuning guitars and pounding drums distorts all perception; as if some very ancient energy has returned to initiate the destruction of space and time.<br />
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Braden Balentine: Synthesizer, Electric Guitar<br />
Mike Sharp: Organ, Synthesizer, Drums<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We will very likely do a second pressing of these in similar quantity after SXSW. We will also be posting this release on our bandcamp in the next week or so for streaming and download.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To reward merit is to stir up emulation; to prize rarities is to encourage robbery; to display desirable things is to excite the disorder of covetousness.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Therefore the sage governeth men by keeping their minds and theirs bodies at rest, contenting the one by emptiness, the other by fulness. He satisfieth their desires, thus fulfilling their wills, and making them frictionless; and he maketh them strong in body, to a similar end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He delivereth them from the restlessness of knowledge and the cravings of discontent. As to those who have knowledge already, he teacheth them the way of non-action. This being assured, there is no disorder in the world.</div>The Rainbow Bridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18212761724292795081noreply@blogger.com0