Lost Tribe Sound
My long-time love for all things Lightning White Bison (aka Timber Rattle) only grows stronger with this latest drone devotional. LWB pours so much mood and genre-bending grit into these hovering, thick clouds of psychedelia that time begins to move like molasses. A hazy mirage of mumbled mantras, ritual intent, and a lonesome desert sound the Doors only dreamt possible at peak trip.
Timber Rattle has always been mysterious and seclusive. In the past decade, the southwest Virginia-based music project has released an impressive number of cassettes, CD-Rs, LPs and digital-only recordings – sometimes overlapping with other monikers/projects that explore different depths of the same aural spectrum – yet they have managed to stay in the shadows, not prone to share more than necessary. This intimacy is also mirrored in the music: shamanic, meditative and personal, it takes inspiration from liturgical rites as well as pagan traditions, a murmured mantra to reach a deeper connection with nature, magic and spiritual matter.
The new Timber Rattle album, Ghost or white pavilion, continues on this very course, featuring a signature array of droning gothic organs, skeletal folk guitars and haunting chants, all carefully assembled and layered in two organic compositions which outline an allegorical journey, inward, to ourselves.
An ominous feeling of reverence introduces a slow descent into a dark abyss: like an echo re-emerging from the past, a litany resounds in the empty spaces of forgotten churches, invoking the spirits of ancient cults to guide us on our pilgrimage. A mist, drenched in hypnotic visions, shrouds the path like a veil, while occult presences slither in the shadows. Determined to continue our journey, we may at last find a passage through that intangible fabric, a threshold to the unknown; beyond the phantom sheet, the inmost recesses of an arcane and mystical rite.
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released April 1, 2023
Recorded and mixed by Adam Parks in Hillsville, VA - Spring 2022. Mastered by Mkl Anderson. Artwork by Adam Parks, layout by Iacopo Gradassi
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This album is still the best example of the Italian underground experimental scene, as well as nailing the whole "Italian Occult Psychedelia" aesthetic. This has to be one of the most underrated albums of the 2010s. ALWAYSmusic
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