Here's some information about the album. Keep your eyes peeled for the Land of Decay tape version!
Be sure to check out the first track from the album
here. Another track from the album will be debuted at
cvltnation.com very soon!
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CATALOG NUMBER: SIGE 013/UTECH 069
RELEASE DATE: Feb 21, 2012
FORMAT: 2xLP
PRICE: This item is non-returnable
GENRE: Rock/Metal/Experimental
FILE UNDER: Locrian, Mamiffer
TRACK LISTING:
1. In Fulminic Blaze
2. Bless Them That Curse You
3. Corpus Luteum
4. Second Burial
5. Lechatelierite
6. Metis/Amaranthine/The Emperor
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
Bless Them That Curse You captures an unprecedented balance of claustrophobia and solace. It’s a strange alchemy to render something both inviting and alienating; it requires a special kind of skill to create music that sounds like it’s rattling apart at its seams, unraveling in a torturous but compelling fashion. It demands an acknowledgement of the fine line between noise and racket, between tension and tedium. Finding an interpersonal chemistry to pull it off can take years of searching and refinement. Initiated by a history of record swapping and mutual admiration, Chicago’s
Locrian and Seattle’s
Mamiffer managed to accomplish such a feat.
Since their inception in 2005,
Locrian’s sound has thrived on harnessing emotional resonance through texture and space. Highlighting a specific melody or beat in their music is unnecessary; their ability to trigger unease, fear, despair, and paranoia by playing with dynamics in timbre and timing is the central fixture in their work. While the Chicago-based trio’s approach is certainly unorthodox, they are not without sonic peers. Seattle-based duo
Mamiffer similarly explores new territories in sound by marrying fragmented elements of neoclassical, drone, and proto-industrial dirge into compositions that are beguiling, haunting, and occasionally violent. Originating as a solo project for pianist
Faith Coloccia in 2007, the project grew to encompass husband
Aaron Turner and a rotating cast of guest musicians. Coloccia’s work, by nature, is malleable and suited towards the collaborative process.
The collaboration between the two groups yielded some of the most beautiful material Locrian has ever recorded, and inversely pushed Mamiffer into the most caustic of new territories. Composed and recorded in Chicago at the renowned
Electrical Audio studio, the album is the result of two disparate approaches arriving at one cohesive voice. It’s at turns contemplative and reserved, unnerving and unsettling, thunderous and feral. Aided by the engineering prowess of
Greg Norman, the mixing skill of
Randall Dunn, and the auxiliary instrumentation of
Alex Barnett (Oakeater) and
Brian Cook (Russian Circles), Bless Them That Curse You is a richly textured study in an unconventional creative process, blending fine-tuned synchronicity with spontaneous brute force.
NOTES:
• Limited to
550 copies, packaged in deluxe LP fold out designed by
Faith Coloccia with hand stamped labels .
• A studio collaboration between
Mamiffer and
Locrian, recorded by
Greg Norman at
Electrical Audio in Chicago, and mixed by
Randall Dunn (Earth, Jesse Sykes, Wolves In The Throne Room, etc.).• A co-release between
SIGE and
Utech Records. CD version being released by
Profound Lore,
cassette version by SIGE/Land of Decay.•
Locrian and
Mamiffer have released previous recordings with labels such as
Small Doses, Utech, Hydra Head, Conspiracy, Land of Decay, etc.•
Mamiffer and
Locrian have and are collaborating with artists such as
Horseback, Merzbow, Daniel Menche, Chistoph Heemann, Eyvind Kang, etc.
