Cassette only - limitowana edycja w Tapeworm (Touch sublabel)!
Track listing:
Sun Down
1: The Waiting Room
2: Hole – with Bruce Gilbert
3: Roulette – with Владимир Ильич Ульянов.
Moon Up
1: Don't Go Away
2: The Janitor Announces the Night – with Daniel Menche
Each side is seventeen minutes forty five seconds long.
Recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote and other unknown locations.
"Into a Limbo, large and broad, since called
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown"
Who on earth are Souls on Board? We know Bruce Gilbert and Daniel Menche are guesting on a track each... but we don't have much more information.
Reviews
Aquarius (USA):
Another mysterious release from upstart UK tape label The Tapeworm, one of FOUR new releases this time around (all reviewed on this week's list). So who are Souls On Board? Well, like lots of the stuff The Tapeworm releases, it's really hard to tell, the recordings sound live, plenty of crowd sounds, shuffling feet, room noise, tape hiss, according to the minimal liner notes, the sounds were "recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote and other unknown locations." Guests include Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert, as well as Northwestern noisenik Daniel Menche, each contributing something subtle to the Souls' smoldering buzz drone minimalism. Hushed barely there static, deep pulsing swells, smears of gristly hiss, bumps and clunks and clanks smoothed out into rugged textures, thick and layered and dense, and quite mesmerizing. With a vibe and sound that recalls the antique obfuscations of Philip Jeck, or the warm pixelated sonic Gauze of Tim Hecker, but way more abstract, but that'....... more
Cassette only - limitowana edycja w Tapeworm (Touch sublabel)!
Track listing:
Sun Down
1: The Waiting Room
2: Hole – with Bruce Gilbert
3: Roulette – with Владимир Ильич Ульянов.
Moon Up
1: Don't Go Away
2: The Janitor Announces the Night – with Daniel Menche
Each side is seventeen minutes forty five seconds long.
Recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote and other unknown locations.
"Into a Limbo, large and broad, since called
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown"
Who on earth are Souls on Board? We know Bruce Gilbert and Daniel Menche are guesting on a track each... but we don't have much more information.
Reviews
Aquarius (USA):
Another mysterious release from upstart UK tape label The Tapeworm, one of FOUR new releases this time around (all reviewed on this week's list). So who are Souls On Board? Well, like lots of the stuff The Tapeworm releases, it's really hard to tell, the recordings sound live, plenty of crowd sounds, shuffling feet, room noise, tape hiss, according to the minimal liner notes, the sounds were "recorded in Tangiers, Mallorca, London, Lisbon, Lanzarote and other unknown locations." Guests include Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert, as well as Northwestern noisenik Daniel Menche, each contributing something subtle to the Souls' smoldering buzz drone minimalism. Hushed barely there static, deep pulsing swells, smears of gristly hiss, bumps and clunks and clanks smoothed out into rugged textures, thick and layered and dense, and quite mesmerizing. With a vibe and sound that recalls the antique obfuscations of Philip Jeck, or the warm pixelated sonic Gauze of Tim Hecker, but way more abstract, but that'....... more