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Friday, January 27, 2012
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ARTIST: RAPOON
TITLE: Stray
LABEL: SOLEILMOON
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| DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
“Stray” is the new album by Robin Storey, otherwise known as Rapoon. His previous release for Soeilmoon was “Melancholic Songs of the Desert”, released in 2009. He has more than 50 albums and singles going back 20 years to his 1992 debut recording,“Dream Circle”.
Improvisational, accoustic, electronic, and artfully arranged, the music of Rapoon is the auditory manifestation of impressionism. Robin Storey paints his songs with small details and fleeting impressions that evoke a mood or place in the listener’s imagination.
"Stray" opens with a simple recording of a women’s choir, then in the next two tracks Storey transforms and transmutes the voices, adding pastel tones and rough shadows until the original canvas has been completely repainted. The fourth piece sprinkles tropical songbirds over distant drones and off-world rhythms, moving East until again, after two more songs, an entirely different atmosphere has emerged. The last three songs take up half of the album, and include two long pieces that comprise entire worlds unto themselves, from bedrock to mountaintop. Transitory, ephemeral clouds of sound flow down imaginary frozen canyons, pouring across weathered rocks and running to windswept shores, carrying sand, pollen and promises of spring’s renewal. Taken together, the nine songs on “Stray” are as gorgeous as they are oblique and engaging.
“Stray” is presented in lavishly printed CD slipcase and folder with vellum overwrap. In a world of generic music sold in dull packaging, the exquisite cover created for this CD makes it an object to treasure, yet it is typical of the high standards of Soleilmoon. This delux first edition of "Stray" is limited 333 copies.
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| ITEM NUMBER: 11561 |
FORMAT: CD |
PRICE: $18.99 |
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ARTIST: REFORMED FACTION
TITLE: The World Awake/11 Stueck
LABEL: SOLEILMOON
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| DESCRIPTION: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27, 2012. PRE-ORDER A COPY TODAY. Any regular in-stock items ordered at the same time (in the same shopping cart) will be held aside and sent with your pre-ordered goods as one shipment. Orders with multiple pre-orders will be sent as one order, when all of the items in the order are available. If you want an order to ship immediately, or want your pre-ordered items to be sent out as soon as they arrive here, rather than in a group, you must order them separately. We won't charge your credit card until we ship the order. Please make sure your card's number and expiration date are up to date when before you complete the check-out process. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The World Awake! / 11 Stueck is a new double album from Reformed Faction, the duo of Robin Storey and Mark Spybey. It follows the triple CD release for Soleilmoon, ‘I am the Source of Light I am not a Mirror,” in 2009.
Robin Storey was born in 1955 in Cumbria, England. He studied fine arts at Sunderland University and took classes in electronic and experimental composition, joining with friends to perform the works of Karlheinz Stockhausen (a key influence, as were the Krautrock bands of the early 1970s). In 1979 Storey formed the pioneering industrial group :zoviet*france:, remaining a member until 1992: The same year Storey issued the first Rapoon album, Dream Circle, its entrancing fusion of Indian ragas, African rhythms and experimental textures anticipating the evocative soundscapes of the many releases to follow. Also a noted visual artist and animator, Storey's work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in the collections of many major galleries.
Mark Spybey was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1961. He has always worked in mental health care. After a long time as a member of :zoviet*france: he moved to Canada and worked under the names Dead Voices on Air and Propeller. He collaborated widely, toured and was vocalist of the acclaimed band Download (ex-Skinny Puppy). He was also a member of Sofortkontakt!, led by the late Michael Karoli of Can, appearing at Can’s 30th anniversary shows. Spybey has worked with a variety of artists who inspired his music, including Damo Suzuki of Can, Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia and Kraftwerk), Dieter Moebius (Cluster and Harmonia), Genesis.P.Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV), James Plotkin, Martin Atkins, Mick Harris and The Legendary Pink Dots. He returned to the U.K in 2000.
The World Awake! Was originally intended for a vinyl release and recorded from improvisations made on one day in November of 2009. 11 Stueck was compiled from improvisations made on December 1st 2009, with drummer Christian Alderson and bass player Oscar Ruiz Fernandez. The Austin Texas based musician Tony D’Oporto, aka Gnome, also appears on one track.
The work references the writing of Henry Miller, in his aptly entitled essay, “With Edgar Varese in the Gobi Desert.”
“The World Awake! Just to repeat that to yourself five times a day is enough to make an anarchist of you. How would you awaken the world – if you were a musician? With a sonata for rusty tin openers? Have you ever thought about it? Or would you rather remain asleep?”
“We have been educated to such a fine – or dull – point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it’s all about. We don’t trust our five senses. We rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.”
Varese said, “What should be avoided; tones of propaganda. As well as any journalistic speculation on timely events and doctrines. I want the epic impact of our epoch, stripped of it’s mannerisms and snobberisms…. Imagination is the last word.”
This first edition of “The World Awake/11 Stueck” is presented in a high-quality screen printed sleeve with printed slipcases for each disc. It is limited to 444 copies.
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| ITEM NUMBER: 11560 |
FORMAT: 2xCD |
PRICE: $20.99 |
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