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Horaflora - "The Gland Canyon" 
WER-000 Edition of 100

Streaming/Download/Order: 
http://weirdearrecords.bandcamp.com/alb ... and-canyon

Horaflora’s “The Gland Canyon” is a crepuscular, moody, and richly detailed sound environment that begins with a gentle tug on your ears, and before you know it, you’re cochlea deep in audible unknowables. Selections of binaural field recordings, improvised acoustic automata, and handmade electronic treatments all merge, collide, divide, and are nearly alive in this hour+ tour de force.

Pro-dubbed and imprinted chrome cassettes, featuring photo/manipulation by Aaron Fee and Sightlab.

Aquarious Records (SF) had this to say about an earlier CD-R edition:
"Bay Area sound artist Raub Roy goes by the name of Horaflora; and his performances are really impressive exercises in controlled electro-acoustic chaos, with low-tech electronics skittering above various tactile scrapes counterpointed by reversed currents of placid bass frequencies and tonal undulation. One of his best performance stunts is to fill up large balloons, shove a trumpet mouthpiece inside the balloon, and drop the metal mouthpiece on a large drumhead. With two of these devices going, Horaflora can generate prolonged vibration and acoustically phased drones that are really amazing. 
Gland Canyon is a small run edition released by Instal Records (which had released a Caretaker disc a while back, although this shares little aesthetic similarity), and works through many of the clamorous, decomposing sounds that Horaflora generates in a live setting. It can't be qualified as 'noise' as these collages are more in keeping with a tradition of automatic writing through sound, with idiosyncratic juxtapositions of electronic bloops, ring modulated flanges, minuscule clatter of wood and metal, mad-scientist weirdo percolations, and those sublimated balloon drones. As such it's more in keeping with some of the HNAS collages or something deconstructed from Small Cruel Party and old P.16.D4 tapes. The various tracks ebb and flow with an unhurried pace that slowly magnifies some of the many sounds into more sparse hypno-repetitive passages and then sweep everything into rather dense crescendos of scattershot sediment."

Sounds interesting. Not really sure why you would release this kind of beeps on tape, as I guess loads of the higher end would fall away but still sounds good. 

The tape sounds great, actually! We were surprised ourselves, pleasantly so...

Review up on the Suave Citation:

http://suavecitation.tumblr.com/post/2816181547...

"Once you get those headphones on there is no turning back. It feels as if you have just jumped off an airplane flying over a huge entrance into someone’s nervous system. Slowly you seep into an environment ruled by sound. The unknown surrounds you, and as the listener you are forced to give in to what Roy has in store for you. Don’t worry though, it’s all intriguing sounds range from breathing to alien noises that are unexplainable. What really matters on this journey is that you are always there. You are soaked in sound and trust me you won’t want to leave the Gland Canyon before the journey is over, because you would be missing out.