★Tombed Visions
I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry
This is a collaborative release between Burn Into Sleep & Dream Skills. Dream Skills is Donald McLean's solo project. His last record was recorded with Steve Albini and features G.W. Sok formerly of The Ex. He is influenced by Pan Sonic and early electronic music. Burn Into Sleep is David McLean and the poet Lauren McLean (nee Bolger). David plays tenor sax, wurlitzer, acoustic and electric guitar on this record. The album was recorded by Andrew PM Hunt (Dialect) at his home studio in Liverpool.…
Fruits of Patience
Born from a shared love of Aerial M, Lung Fish and other contemplative, cyclical and slow moving rock music from the Chicago and Louisville scenes, Fire Nearby are a guitar duo exploring long-form automatic song writing for the autumn season. Although McLean and Birchall have tussled together in a variety of free-improv groups over the last decade, their friendship has always been rooted in similar formative years spent gigging in, obsessing over and learning to play guitar to the same post-ever…
Styx
Arriving just four months after his previous release, Tombed Visions obsession with the work of guitarist Takashi Masubuchi continues with the release of 'Styx'.
Microcanonical Ensemble
Microcanonical Ensemble is an album woven with subtle paradoxes, balancing stasis and movement, resonance and decay, improvisation and composition, precision and raw performance. While the echoes of Morton Feldman, Jürg Frey, and the Wandelweiser scene whisper through their music, the group's contrasting approaches, coupled with an openness and fragility, create a sound that is rustic and fallibly human.
With purely acoustic instrumentation, the quartet of Takashi Masubuchi, Wakana Ikeda, Tom So…