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Roadburn Album of the Day:
Praise for Night Flights‘s Vol.1 from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records:
First release from this group of kosmische synth-float dream-space
drifters, who normally spend their time kicking up more of a sonic
ruckus in local space rock combo Carlton Melton (Rich Millman and Andy Duvall), but in Night Flights, all of that rock is ejected through the airlock, and left to drift weightlessly amongst the stars!
This new 12″ perhaps the soundtrack to that transition. Equal parts Cluster, Eno, Tangerine Dream, this is all abstract, ambient bliss out. Psychedelic new age for the new age, long tones float and shimmer, melodies unfurl lazily, expanding and then drifting apart.
Textures shift in slow motion, thick billowing clouds of sound roil softly over a hushed backdrop of barely there thrum, it’s chilled out and gloriously laid back, the music from some long ago planetarium show. A show presented in slow motion, the various planets and stars swirling slowly, the contrails making all manner of prismatic patters that ebb and flow, pulse and fade.
Imagine the trippiest parts of Carlton Melton (of which there are plenty), but then slow them down, and stretch them way out. Let them drift skyward, spreading out across the stars like some weird sonic filter, channeling the strange broadcasts from the furthest reaches into chiming guitar shimmer and swoonsome chordal whooshes, moody murky synthiness and tripped out atmospheric dronemusic, everything blurred and smeared into a fantastically mesmerizing slab of gloriously free form minimal space music, that should hit the spot for both psych nerds and drone lovers alike.
This new 12″ perhaps the soundtrack to that transition. Equal parts Cluster, Eno, Tangerine Dream, this is all abstract, ambient bliss out. Psychedelic new age for the new age, long tones float and shimmer, melodies unfurl lazily, expanding and then drifting apart.
Textures shift in slow motion, thick billowing clouds of sound roil softly over a hushed backdrop of barely there thrum, it’s chilled out and gloriously laid back, the music from some long ago planetarium show. A show presented in slow motion, the various planets and stars swirling slowly, the contrails making all manner of prismatic patters that ebb and flow, pulse and fade.
Imagine the trippiest parts of Carlton Melton (of which there are plenty), but then slow them down, and stretch them way out. Let them drift skyward, spreading out across the stars like some weird sonic filter, channeling the strange broadcasts from the furthest reaches into chiming guitar shimmer and swoonsome chordal whooshes, moody murky synthiness and tripped out atmospheric dronemusic, everything blurred and smeared into a fantastically mesmerizing slab of gloriously free form minimal space music, that should hit the spot for both psych nerds and drone lovers alike.
At 40 years old, Aquarius is the oldest independent record store in San Francisco. We try to only carry music we love, and we’re always searching for more new, cool, weird and wonderful music. All of which we then share with you, our loyal customers.
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