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EXPO '70 / ALTAR TEMPLE split LP (2011)
A: Expo '70 - Land of the Midnight Sun
B: Altar Temple -
Radar Swarm
Limited to 300 white vinyl 12" records
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PSYCHATRONE RHONEDAKK Blog
Another month another Expo 70 release! Not that I mind,especially when they are this great.
This one is limited to 300 copies on snow white vinyl,....and I only mention snow because ,for some reason,that's what this album sounds like to me.....
Expo 70 gives you "Land of The Midnight Sun" and this side to me sounds like the feeling of "suspension" you get while driving in a blinding snow-storm. You may know the feeling I am refering to? When ,late night, you are driving through what starts to feel like a tunnel ,...and yet it's just the snow blurring reality into a float-space. Your headlights reflect against the flakes blowing towards you and suddenly it's a bit like you are standing still and the whole ball of the Earth is just rolling magically under the rubber of your tires. Yes,you've achieved the perfect speed and direction of the spin of the Earth itself. You suddenly spin out into space and you imagine that you can see your car standing there steady as the globe moves under you,.....you shake your head and clear your thoughts as you catch slight glimpses of what may be truck tail-lights ahead of you. That's the feeling I get here. "Suspension" in a flurry of white sounds,with occasional sounds flashing out at you to keep you just about teathered to your version of reality. This is just about 20 minutes of really stunning work. I'm so glad it didn't just end-up on some out-takes cassette.
Now Altair Temple is a duo I've never encountered before and their side on this "white-out" of a disc doesn't swing you more into the loop of any other reality than it's very own ....so, don't think your drift will be broken by flipping this thing over! "Exconjuration Des Angles" is a slightly darker drone than Expo 70's side,.....but it's organ-like swells are like some darkened acid cathedral in a snowy woods. Here is an expansive drone with swells of over-tones and ghostly sounds rising from the mix that could seem like it's full of candle-light and incantation,but is fully instrumental. "Mountain Drone" does sound like a suspended organ drone,......and yet I see no instrument of that type listed on the cover. Like a very mellow Lamont Young piece,and it's a nice 4 minutes long...staying just enough for it's welcome. "Ars Theurgia"( I think that's the spelling?) is a bit more breathy and open than the past two tracks. Etheral would be a good description. There is "openess" in the mix here,with room to hear the strums of the guitar that supplies the main drone work,along with some sounds a bit like wind and ,although it could be another over-tone, what sounds like voices acting with the guitar sounds. Here again this sounds like some snowy hibernation ,if not cryo-sleep dreams. It's all a bit icy and yet inviting....a pleasant dream drone for these winter nights.
I think that this Lp is pretty great,.....but maybe I hear things that even the bands (especially Altair Temple) may not have "meant" to be heard , after hearing they are a dark metal drone off-shoot of some band or another I've never come across. But ,never the less,on this cold dark night in Pennsylvania.......that's what my mind's eye sees.
Cool white vinyl,on a cold winter night might be swaying my visions a bit? A great floating trip of an album in any sense ,'though. Buy it fast....300 copies could fly right off of the shelves.
Oh yeah,written in reverse on the LP's back cover.....," Our Starry Universe.....Realm of Chaos and Night".
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