Track listing:Many Many Happy Returns / The Contours Of Perfect Distance.
They say everything’s bigger in Texas. That includes the mind-expanding tones coming out of out of Silent Land Time Machine’s epic looped violin compositions that weave and drone like tumbleweeds on crack’d black asphalt. Good sounds from bad lands. “Many Many Happy Returns” recorded LIVE at Marigold Studios (R.I.P.) in London, ON “The Contours Of Perfect Distance” recorded LIVE at Le Cagibi, in Montréal, QC, with additional amenities provided by Khôra & Nick Kuepfer.
BIO: SLTM; an inadvertent aural accumulator; a fractured signal; a concerted, compassionate memory resistor; the IN/OUT of an organic circuit experiencing itself for the first time; a starry-eyed-bliss-transformer; nerves attaching, detaching, strengthening, and severing; aimed at the clearing of neural circuitry with the frequency of white wind.
Moonwood guitarist, Jakob Rehlinger, works through six electric and acoustic solo guitar improvisations trying to get somewhere in the Easts (Far- and Middle-) while remaining rooted in the Americas. Lyrical, soaring airs played over dark, oily drones. Recorded direct to 2-track live in Moonwood’s rehearsal studio between Nov 2011 and May 2012.
BIO: Moonwood is the psych-improv project of Toronto (ON) guitarist Jakob Rehlinger, often joined by Jacqueline Noire on percussion, vocals and woodwinds. Solo or as a duo, Moonwood’s music is informed by (while not necessarily adhering to the traditions of) Tibetan funeral chants, krautrock, Balinese gamelan, classic psychedelic rock, traditional Japanese and South Asian music, dub, free-jazz and the usual grab-bag of avant-folk styles
MOONWOOD – The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack, and the Strength of the Pack is the Wolf
Buy Now: CD – 13 tracks/48 mins. Atmospheric psychexotica. Pocket sleeve in translucent red lino block printed envelope w/ 3-pack of pin back buttons.
From the meditative opener, “So The Darkness Shall Be The Light, And The Stillness Be The Dancing” to the rambling opium den epic of “Where The Flowers Blossom Red”, the album smoulders with Javanese go-go gamelan gongs, smoky Cambodian funk, wicked Celtic ragas, deep Saharan blues, simmering Sufi surf and spacedout Indian soul. A heady fusion for heady times (times like, say, 1972 or, possibly, 1912). RIYL: Six Organs, Dengue Fever, Robbie Basho
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be the dancing 4:47
The Palace of Malice 3:20
Phnom Penthouse 2:58
Invite me to stare into the darkness 3:12
Grafitti Blossoms 3:16
Geedoodles, it’s Captain Judas! 2:47
Hyaenas know the dead are safer meat than the even weakest living treat 3:21
It takes a child to raze a village 2:21
The twilight swallows the thicket 2:44
Fireflies trapped in a cracked pint jar 3:26
Woodwose walks wicked and wild 2:22
And the snake shall be your watchman 3:32
Where the flowers blossom red 10:18
Also available in a convenient digital format at BANDCAMP.
Watch the videos for “Grafitti Blossoms” and “It Takes a Child to Raze a Village”
Vol. 5 in the Moonwood rehearsal tapes series. Just over an hour of material edited down from 4 sessions of solo improv guitar jams. Meditative ragas, analogue space drones and black ritualistic fuzz.
$11.25 CAD + Shipping (North America $1o / World $17). Edition of 200 blue vinyl w/download.
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We’re pleased to announce our first vinyl release is from resident psyche-folker, Moonwood. Subtitled Music For Water Borne Disease, the album’s 10 instrumental tracks wind like a river through far eastern modes and southwestern reverb. Multi-instrumentalist Jakob Rehlinger layers bowed strings, Romanian lap harp and gourd flute over fuzzy psyche-guitar and ethnic percussion, bells and gongs.
Includes free digital download via Moonwood’s Bandcamp site plus an exclusive download of Ghost Aberrations, a 70-minute album of out-takes of rarities from the Coal Aberrations and River Ghosts sessions.
“Earlybird” edition: The first 60 copies include a hand-printed, signed and numbered lino-block print by Jakob.
Ecconomically priced digital version available at Moonwood’s Bandcampsite (does not include Ghost Aberrations album).
“Side A – Andy Futreal: Returning from Asian travels, Futreal combines a mysterious smoke blown through wooden flutes. Perhaps the malaria medication is giving us these intense dreams. Side effects merge into effect pedals, rivers of bicycles flowing through market streets, dodging cattle, their bells ringing in time with the chimes of metal hammered into unrecognizable tools.
Side B – Moonwood: Towers of Babel fall. The god of Reverb bears a human child. Meditation as medication. Religious experiences are discarded in favor of deep soul searching. Doors fly open as an organ signals new moonwood. Transcendental floss.
Limited edition of 18, hand numbered and painted cassettes. Tied up in collaged envelopes with storybook insert. each one unique. Please send $7 in North America or $9 for rest of the world… paypal to individual6079 {at} yahoo {dot} com” ~ Folkwaste.com
We’re pleased to announce the official release of Coal Aberrations by Moonwood. Click the image to go to the Arachnidiscs Store.
This is the first Moonwood release to feature performances by musicians other than multi-instrumentalist Moonwood (Jakob Rehlinger).
Moonwood collaborators include Rehlinger’s New Yaki cohorts Andrew Macgregor (Gown/The Bark Haze) and Stephen Wolf (Partli Cloudi/Summer Amp) as well as Ameen (Healthy Animal), Robert Gray (robrobrob), Elgin-Skye, Eli Korsorado (Brave New Waves), Richard Holiday Cartwright (Everything Is Geometry), Rose Redweed (Dirtnap), Mandi Hardy and Kyprieth.
Operating under the maxim “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts“, Moonwood invited an international group of musicians to submit solo improvisations on their instruments (from tin cans to cellos) sight unseen—or sound unheard as the case may be—for him to build full compositions in and around. Some takes were mixed directly into existing arrangements (Eli’s sax/Kyprieth’s flute), others were used as a launching-pad (Dirtnap’s piano/Heathy Animal’s rhythm drones/Gown’s guitar) for whole new pieces.
The result takes Moonwood’s loose acid folk to both freer/noiser extremes (“Deep Soul #3“) and towards more structured, almost neo-classical/post-rock compositions (“We Are Already Dead“) while retaining the brooding, free-form feel of the previous release, Aubade.
Jakob Rehlinger is bringing his BABEL moniker back.
The project started out as darkly experimental, post-ambient/neo-classical then evolved, by way of dub, into the psyche-folk he now records as Moonwood.
His newest album, Zahlreiche, is the closest to what BABEL was always intended to be— Cage/Glass/Reich as informed by Neubauten/Branca/Chatham.
This is the third movement from a cycle for prepared guitars called Schnurvorbereitung.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be the dancing 4:47
It takes a child to raze a village 2:21
