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The Stone Tape

by SVB

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Side A: Crucible // Footprints // Thinning the Veil // Kick Up the Mud 16:29
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Side B: Grasp the Bird's Tail // Emerging into Light // Epilogue 13:26

about

Samarbeta are pleased to announce the next release on their label; New York based musician Sarah Van Buren (a.k.a. SVB), our 13th musician-in-residence.

SVB’s residency in December 2018 was split into two parts; first, a trip to the ancestral homelands of central Ireland, where SVB visited Gnod Farm (home to Paddy + Marlene of Gnod), undertaking extensive digital and analog field recordings, specifically in locations of supernatural significance. The second part took place within a disused refrigeration unit in a warehouse behind Islington Mill, where SVB turned the field recordings into loops, creating the backbone for the tracks on The Stone Tape.

"The opener 'Crucible' draws back the veil of this haunted record with spookily kitsch synth chords and chattering digitised voices, before melting into the wrongly out of time xylophone and demonic nursey rhyme of 'Footprints'. 'Kick Up The Mud' is the early banger of the record, a cold wave ballad with propulsive electronic drums for dancing in your own arms in the dark. On 'Grasp The Bird’s Tail', tai chi manoeuvres are intoned against a bloated fog of found sounds. It’s clear that The Stone Tape is an audio homage to phantasmagoria, with SVB delighting in creating detailed scenes that are populated with a huge cast of characters, that interrupt the séance to share their tale of the other side. 'Epilogue' closes the ritualistic album with the poetically stark image of 'standing in the graveyard with my younger self', a fitting end to a record as much about spiritual transgression as well as honouring spirits past."
- Review by David Mclean

credits

released November 1, 2019

Mixed by Matthew Cullen at Cat Haus, Catskill, NY.
Mastered by Steve Silverstein at SteveCo Worldwide
All songs written and performed by Sarah Van Buren, © 2019

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