Saturday, January 12, 2008

Sloow Tapes – Birch













Slurp Dogs
Postal Licks
One-sided CS 60
Sloow Tapes – Birch

Echo-dyed space chanteys dwelling into cosmic generosity, homebrewed by high sky couriers Willie Lane (Golden Road) and Grant Acker (Un). Have another sip of the lion’s head and get with the beam. Silkscreened visions in 101 copies.
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Rural psych from Willie Lane of Golden Road and Grant Acker of Un. Spacious and seriously spaced out guitar and a heavily dosed atmosphere. Suitably psychey sleeve design on the fold-out cover too. (Boa Melody Bar)
New duo jams from a group that features Willie Lane (of Matthew Valentine/Golden Road fame) and Grant Acker, who was a member of original Siltbreeze destructo-rockers Un alongside Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards/GHQ/Hototogisu. Here Lane and Acker slow-wrestle 12 electric strings into the kind of serpentine, wah-wah form that would reconcile the black hole sound of Jerry Garcia circa “Dark Star” and the free, rolling spectrasound breakouts of Matthew Valentine with a hint of John Fahey circa Days Have Gone By. Silkscreened sleeves in an edition of 101 copies. (Volcanic Tongue)
Willie Lane, one of our fave guitarists from the haze-light of New England, and a critical element in the MV/EE Golden Road investigations, relocated to some weird other road in Pennsylvania and we were sad. But now we are brightened! A message beam has been fireflied into our homes via an amazing recording collab betwixt Willie and Grant Acker (gtrist from ex-Siltbreeze lost-art spacialists UN). They are called the Slurp Dogs, the tape is called Postal Licks and it’s on the consistently worthwhile earth-psyche label from Belgium, Sloow Tapes. Real singing amplifier bent note drone wah magic mind music here and all in high order. Super recommended. (Bull Tongue)
excellent tape from the duo of willie lane (whose recent self-released “known quantity” has been a real “grower” around here) and un’s grant acker ...gorgeous, muted guitar ragas par excellence (Mimaroglu)