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Translucent Orange LP SOLD OUT
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SOLD OUT. Limited edition translucent orange LP packaged in full color jackets with a full color insert. Vinyl pressed at Cascade Record Pressing in Portland, Oregon. All materials manufactured in the USA.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Immeasurable Spiral
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Black LP SOLD OUT
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
SOLD OUT. Limited edition black LP packaged in full-color jackets with a full-color insert. Vinyl pressed at Cascade Record Pressing in Portland, Oregon. All materials manufactured in the USA.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Immeasurable Spiral
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
A Story of Rats is a duo consisting of the Los Angeles/Seattle based artists Garek J Druss and Daniel Salo. This collaboration was formed to create environments and atmospheres that enable the listener to engage in a heightened experience that resembles an ecstatic awareness or transcendence. Using analog and digital synthesizers, drum programming, and vocals, Salo and Druss create an intricate shadow that often obscures itself between sound, installation, tangibility, and time. The composed soundscapes they create shifts the perception from the material to conjure a sonic understanding of the ethereal.
The Immeasurable Spiral was recorded in Seattle,Washington at Avast Studios by engineer and producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Eyvind Kang, Sunn 0))), Marissa Nadler, Wolves in the Throne Room, etc). The two pieces of immense sonic architecture were crafted to represent an unknown space where somberness and asphyxiation are of equal temperament. This album has been mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin and consists of analog and digital synthesizers, electric organ, timpani, drum machine programming, live kit drums, and vocals. Compositionally this album addresses themes of transformation and the presence that exists outside of the self. Within this dense soundscape, is the idea and the challenge to understand the unknown and how it positions the individual to reflect on their own sense of lack and emptiness.
credits
released April 6, 2018
Daniel Salo - piano, synthesizers, timpani, & drum programming
Garek J Druss - synthesizers, electric organ, vocals, & drum programming
Live kit drums by Andrew Crawshaw
Recorded by Randall Dunn.
Mastered by James Plotkin.
Digital edition features 2 additional remix tracks by Josef Gaard and Black Algiz (Tim Ellegaard & Kim Larsen/Of the Wand & The Moon)
supported by 11 fans who also own “The Immeasurable Spiral”
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
supported by 8 fans who also own “The Immeasurable Spiral”
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann