Kandodo Announces Two New Albums Solstice: Dusk/Dawn and Solstice: Dub Out Dec. 21
I don’t think I’m supposed to tell you this kind of thing, but, uh, Kandodo‘s got two new LPs coming out next month — on the solstice, suitably enough since that’s apparently also when they were recorded I think I saw somewhere? — with the titles Solstice: Dusk / Dawn and Solstice: Dub, they’re both streaming below, and you could go ahead and play both at the same time right now. Like, together. I’m pretty sure that’s not how they were meant to be heard, since the one is a minute longer than the other, but it’s all the more a slab of impossible psychedelic twists with both going, and I kind of dig that. I’m like seven minutes in and oops I just melted. No more bones.
No disrespect, of course, to Simon Price, who is the principal behind Kandodo, working in collaboration here with his former The Heads bandmate Hugo Morgan, but I have to imagine somebody who’s spent the last 35-plus years opening up fissures in spacetime with his guitar might be able to get down with a little experiential flexibility. If that’s not the case, I do apologize.
I didn’t know these LPs were coming until I was on Cardinal Fuzz‘s Bandcamp for the Abronia record the other day, and I’m glad as hell I stopped by. All this info and the audio at the bottom comes from there:
EUROPE – Cardinal Fuzz / Rooster Rock
USA – Feeding Tube Records
“A sonic solstice, a total double dissolver.” Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records, both seasoned navigators of the deep zone, present two new kandodo 12”s – Solstice / Dub and Dusk / Dawn. Two records orbiting one deep pulse, each presented in a unique bespoke deluxe screen printed outer sleeve finish. Includes download for full pelagic bliss.
From the psychedelic shack in Northumberland, Simon Price (kandodo) has spent two years coaxing these sounds into being, eighty minutes, four sides, each a branch reaching out from the same shimmering sonic tree. A slow unfurling of heady drift and cosmic fuzz,the sound bending like light across the equinox, refracted through delays, flanges and fuzz until it folds in on itself. Hugo Morgan (the heads) joins on low-end duties, sending tremors through the deep ether where the basslines anchor the drift, turning the horizon to liquid and the floor to vibration
Four longform trips, each a 20-minute drift through the same solar pulse seen from different angles, all refracted through a sike sonic toolbox. A headphone treat at 20,000 feet or cranked loud on the stereo. They’re glimmering portals, longform meditations, head-expanding drift zones to lose yourself in, built for the hour when everything dissolves, preferably at 2AM, lights low, synapses wide open, the turntable spinning like a slow planet. Each side a transmission that captures the same essence but from a different vantage point. ‘Solstice’ brings the march of fuzz, tremeloes pulling you under. The dub burns with the bright hum of eternal noons and shards of phased harmonics. ‘Dusk’ slinks into the cool breath of the coming dark. ‘Dawn’ lets slip earthly bounds and shimmers into deep space, going beyond beyond.
Dubbed, delayed, distorted, this is kandodo in full expansion mode, an an aural equinox, a sonic solstice, a total double dissolver.
One pulse, four horizons, infinite zones. Drop the needle, watch time blur and dive deep. See yous on the other side.
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http://feedingtuberecords.com/
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