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BASS COMMUNION - Ghosts on magnetic tape

Format: do-CD Label & Cat.Number: Headphone Dust HDBCCD9 Release Year: 2008 Note: re-edition with bonus remix CD by ANDREW LILES !! now re-pressed, comes in oversized / heavy cardboard / gatefold-cover Price (incl. 19% VAT): €16.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "A reissue of the double CD version of Bass Communion's dark and spectral masterpiece, which includes Andrew Liles reconstruction disc. Inspired by EVP recordings (spirits communicating with the living through the use of tape recordings). Housed in a beautiful card gatefold sleeve." [label info] "With the last couple of Bass Communion, Steven Wilson continues down the darkly droning path found on his collaborative record with Jonathan Coleclough and Colin Potter. Inspired by the parapsychological investigations of Konstanin Raudive who claimed to have captured the voices of the dead on tape, Wilson manages an exceptional album of spectral dark ambience laced with the haunted crackle of old '78s struggling to gain a foothold amidst the billowing clouds of brooding drones. A perfect tide-us-over 'til the next Thomas Koner record. And as if that weren't enough, Liles' disc is just as good, a lot more minimal and abstract, but retaining much of the original's dark spirit. The opening turns Bass Communion's slow drift into something much closer to the pastoral chorale of Arvo Part. The rest of the disc rumbles ominously, shimmers dreamily, occasionally interrupted by electronic glitches, blurred fields of crackle, burnished streaks of glistening sparkle, mysterious voices, intercepted radio broadcast, deep cavernous whirs and long stretches of near silence. The perfect compliment to the original's almost nearly perfect dark dreamy drift. Packaged in super deluxe, very striking, mini-gatefold style full color sleeve." [Aquarius Records]