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COMMUNITY OF LIGHT - Night Vision

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Invisible Birds ib007 Release Year: 2014 Note: a new hyper atmospheric trio from California doing improvisational dream/dronescapes of stunning beauty and otherworldliness - ethereal female vocals, subtle drones & sparse tones....reminding on ASIA NOVA / VOICE OF EYE... they use: vocals, synths, baritone guitar, delay/reverb devises, bowed acoustic bass, zither, bells, piano.... to discover for drone-heads! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "recordings of community of light improvisations from 2013 in cherryland, ca. michael malinski : bass, percussion, vocals, synths matthew swiezynski : guitar chi yun : vocals, synths, electronics instruments : vocals, synths, baritone guitar, guitar, delay/reverb devises, bowed acoustic bass, zither, bells, piano, harmonicas, and various prayer bowls community of light is a collective of artists & musicians working in the post kraut cosmic drone continuum which was initiated by mr. robert fludd and has come to full fruition in the twenty-first century in various forms. specifically; as pursuers of the Light, which is often called Darkness, and a sound we call silence (with a method called night vision). one critic of note has said of the community : community of light reconceives a music that has for a long time been gathered from the invisible and most ancient of all communities, which has been in existence since the creation of the cosmos, and will be with us through the end of time. their music is highly influenced by krautrock, psychedelic, ambient, british folk, electronic and experimental and avant-garde music. graphics by chi yun photo by matthew swiezynski mixed/edited by matthew swiezynski & chi yun cherryland studio asymmetry by michael malinski night vision concept inspired by carolina chaves urruzmendi" invisiblebirds.org "Just as Parson Sound morphed into International Harvester and brought forth a same-but-different sense of a sprawled Swedish psychedelia, so the Community Of Light emerges from the kosmische drone continuum that produced the equally mysterious and poetic smears of the Ingenting Kollektiva. The concept rich Kollektiva arose from the cultural year zero of 1969, when a considerable amount of influential records on the Kollektiva's agenda were published. Holger Czukay, Amon Duul, Ornette Coleman, Pentangle, King Crimson, and Alan Silva were amongst those in this pantheon of aesthetic greats; but so too were the concepts of Ingmar Bergman and his existentially empty gaps of narrative silence and deliberate inactivity. Aesthetically, this outfit broadcast emotionally rich ambient swathes of echo across droning pools of acoustic instrumentation swollen through delay and reverb. Community Of Light eschews the overt cultural references to one far more occult and gnostic, announcing themselves "as pursuers of the Light, which is often called Darkness, and a sound we call silence (with a we called night vision)." Such a proclamation could have been spoken by Robert DeGrimston of the Process Church or by the heretical Valentinian monk who might have penned the inscrutable Gospel Of Truth or even by the Great Beast himself, Aleister Crowley. Musically, the Community Of Light follows in what the Kollektiva had created, although this new iteration has given considerable heft to the low end of things and considerable witchiness to the wordless vocal incantations. Wisps of melody solemnly ring from the guitars above the rumbling underbelly to Night Vision's five tracks with those eerie vocals floating throughout as some sort of disembodied ectoplasm. Enveloping with shadow, but never threatening, Community Of Light drifts along the droning seas of Troum, Stars Of The Lid, and those rare instrumental numbers from Current 93." [Aquarius Records]