High aura'd / Sanguine Futures

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Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts

Boston’s High Aura’d (aka John Kolodij) has been making quite the impression over the last few years on a series of exquisite short-run tapes and CDRs.  And honestly, even though said releases were all very good and quite lovely in their own right, they didn’t really prepare me for the heavy, stunning mass that is Kolodij’s first LP, Sanguine Futures.  Joined by Type Records boss, John Twells (who helped with arrangements and mastering), High Aura’d reaches a new cosmic plane.  Solemn drones bend from the sky, echoing like endless prayers being sent to a God that never existed.  It is music that aches and breathes (something particularly true for the song featured in this fantastic video by Omar Mashaal).  Layers are stretched like skin over muscle, painting a pretty facade for the distressed horror that’s buried underneath.  This is living, folks, and there’s nothing left to do but let it wash over you and take you away in its blackened currents.

 

 

This is coming out on July 10th on  Bathetic Records

 
Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts

https://vimeo.com/44369589

 
Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts


Sanguine Futures 
is now available for pro-order at Bathetic Records I highly recommend the bundle option with the great William Cody Watson record, Bill Murray, it'll disappear on July 10th, the official release datecreated at: 2012-06-26 for SF-

 
Custom_xelabw-crop_medium John 650 Posts

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Hemingway-cat_medium Hemingways_Cat 419 Posts Like the sound of this.  Any copies making their way to the UK?
 
Uts_medium underthespire 557 Posts

sure Boomkat stock Bathetic, most titles anyway. I'm gonna grab from the label, just to make sure I get one!

 
Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts

it should be at Boomkat shortly...

another piece... http://adhoc.fm/post/high-aurad-mercy-brown-excerpt/

 
6145651418982f54cfa096957df3f14e_medium Orphax 1032 Posts

Sounds good...I am waiting to order as I also want the Padang Food Tigers and upcoming Angel Olsen LP...

 
Within_the_walls_medium jorge 8 Posts

All new bathetic releases avaliable here in a few days: http://www.twosteprecords.es/

 
Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts

I wouldn't wait too long- good chance of selling out sooner than later ...

 
Within_the_walls_medium jorge 8 Posts

In stock:

http://www.twosteprecords.es/collections/bathetic-records

 
Custom_img_6656_medium Momofuku 18 Posts

Thanks! 

also, at Boomkat!  http://boomkat.com/vinyl/551942-high-aura-d-sanguine-futures

 

"But 'Sanguine Futures' is set to be his calling card for the foreseeable. Drawing upon darkest black spirits, he invokes a disconcertingly close and imminent atmospheric menace drawing parallels with Scelsi and Penderecki, or even the arctic concrete of Thomas Köner, but all with the intangible quality of a fevered daymare you've just woken from, yet struggle vainly to remember. That's not to say it's forgettable, more that it's really captured that liminal, barely-conscious quality to a potent degree; drifting between rusted, autumnal tones and weathered textures with uncommon ghostly grace, broodingly resigned to infinitely creak in the ether. "There's deep, rusty veins running to the heart of Sanguine Futures, pumping a dark crimson fluid, driving the machine to keep humming. There's a clicking film projector casting images onto a sheet of ice. We feel it, it's thrust into the very energy that motivates us; a feeling of love, of life, of solace, of hope and pain and fear and joy and sorrow. This is a span of sounds and tones and textures, weaved together as a lifeforce. An album this isn't, an entire affair, spanning our first to dying breaths. Heavy, spacious, frightening, and welcoming; all at once."

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