Drone Records

LULL - Moments

Format: do-LP

Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring Records CSR295LP

Release Year: 2021

Note: expanded vinyl re-issue of MICK HARRIS ambient classic from 1998, which had 99 track indexes, now there are 100 "Moments" of humming drones that slowly chang into other, pretty otherworldly, forms... - " Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with subtle shifts" - gatefold sleeve with spot varnishing, ed. of 500 copies on BROWN vinyl

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €29.50

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Isolationist, minimal, alienating Drone / Dark Ambient from Mick Harris (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH). Staggeringly beautiful, glacial sub-bass sounds, deep ambient and thunderous tones, with subtle shifts. Originally released as a 99-track continuous CD in 1998 (Relapse), now presented on vinyl for the first time, "Moments" is expanded to 100 cuts, with bonus material from the original recording sessions.

"Tectonic rumblings and icy sound slivers move and swirl around each other, slipping into spaces between the molecules which make up your physical body and then break it apart in preparation for rearrangement. Moments of expansive emptiness and claustrophobic terror overlap one another and then overcome your mind as you journey through this bleak void of sound. At one moment warm and organic, the next, slowly slipping into a machine-like coldness to freeze and paralyze... Sound as a vehicle to bring you through that doorway towards dimensions previously unknown. Hypnotic and soothing with a lingering sense of dread throughout" (Carrion Kind).

File next to Lustmord, Sleep Research Facility, Thomas Köner.

Double LP in a textured gatefold sleeve.

Ltd x 500 copies on 180gm brown vinyl.
Ltd x 250 copies on 180gm black vinyl.

Created and mixed by Mick Harris in the Box, January 1998
Edited and mastered by Bill Yurkiewicz and Dave Shirk at Sonorous Mastering, Inc., February 1998
Vinyl mastering for Cold Spring by Martin Bowes
Artwork by Abby Helasdottir

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/moments-csr295lp

"The other new release is a re-issue. 'Moments' was already on CD in 1998, and while it was one long piece of music, the CD had 99 index points for your random pleasure. There are 100 (99 is the maximum for CDs), but how do you randomly play these from vinyl? I have yet to work out. I reviewed the CD back in Vital Weekly 140. Lull is Mick Harris, once of Napalm Death, later of Scorn. Lull was (is?) his deep ambient project. At the end of the century, we called this Isolationist music, which may have had various shapes, but Lull certainly was at the deep end of it all. His music was all about filtering out as many mid to high frequencies he could get away with and then giving the low bass end a few twirls, so there would be sufficient variation at work. With this approach, Harris had things very well under control. You could play this music at a shock and awe volume, inducing
earthquakes; I didn't do that, as I enjoy this on a moderate volume. Now, your room/space fills up with these low-end rumblings, and it becomes a more natural part of your environment. The variation within these small pieces is more than I remember from the CD version, usually lasting thirty seconds to a minute, with exceptions well below or above that. I am not convinced that vinyl is the best sound carrier for such low-end music. Perhaps, the CD format is more suited for such an experience, I thought. But this one surely is one of them when it comes to classic moments (pun intended) of historic isolationist music." (FdW)