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"A Really Deep Groove (Aleph to Bet)" by REPTIEL from their album Down Below World, released by Cubby Control Records. Artwork by Anselm Yew, depicting Sine and the Spirit Usher falling into the deep groove taking them to the Down Below World.
Reptile uses a mind-melting blend of styles, textures, and timbres in the otherworldly “Down Below World.” Sunburnt psychedelic rock with a neat twist of progressive rock dilates time, slowing it down and speeding it up at a moment’s notice. By keeping things so strange, they keep the listener guessing, refusing to clarify anything. This mysterious tenor defines the entire journey through the album. There’s a gleefulness they take in being so willfully obscure.
Acid alliteration is akin to that of Van Dyke Parks' levels of abstraction and poetic, given the sheer opaque number of references. The broken nursery rhyme cadence draws from early Pink Floyd, specifically Syd Barrett's era “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” Utterly disregarding the usual, they morph their tones into something akin to Faust’s early 70s relentless experimentation. For all these touchstones, there’s a strong sense of community that helps to give the album a well-deserved mysticism, as if things are just continuously residing on the edge of perception. Messing with listener expectations feels refreshing, as they refuse to play it safe.
Vocals bloom on the tone-setting “A Really Deep Groove (Aleph to Bet).” The sprawling “It’s an Alternate World” explores a whole universe, which feels like a series of suites connected through the narrative. “Deep(er) Below” has warped wonder from the strength of the guitar riffs to the celebratory keyboards that adorn the experience. Wordless is the interlude of “Searching for Thos.” “Ja’roque” completely baffles with retro synthesizers and a chorus borrowed from the criminally underrated Cromagnon, whose general vibe continues with the following “Ja’vere’s Theme.” Glam rock with a sci-fi aesthetic runs through the swagger of “Obsidian City.” “Preserved in Amber” feels like a long-lost classic transmitted from another universe. A pure drone on “Turbulent Blobs” makes it one of the more straightforward pieces of the album. Keyboards intersect on the slow-moving gait of “Introit.” Twisting and turning “Thos Unearthed” has a grandeur. Patterns intersect, giving “Post-synergistic, Atmospheric Explosion” a celebratory sensation that underpins the message. Like a hazy late-summer afternoon is the dazed “Chamber of Reflections.” A more minimal “VITRIOL” ends the album on an eerie note.
Done with a sense of whimsy and charm, Reptiel delivers something genuinely divine in “Down Below World.”
A Really Deep Groove (Aleph to Bet) from #REPTIEL's latest album "Down Below World"
Obscure Sound's review of REPTIEL's Down Below World...
Preserved in Amber by REPTIEL from their new album Down Below World
Down Below World
CUBBY CONTROL RECORDS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF REPTIEL’S DOWN BELOW WORLD ALBUM, THIRD IN THEIR SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES
San Francisco psych-rock and experimental music label Cubby Control Records announces the release of a new album by label veterans REPTIEL entitled Down Below World. This is REPTIEL’s fifth album and third in their SciFi/Fantasy, Psychedelic Prog Rock series that began with 2015’s Hobbitozz … A Land That Never Was, proceeded with 2018’s The Planet of Progkp and now continues with Down Below World.
Down Below World resumes the story of protagonist Sine and his transgalactic guide the Spirit Usher. This time they have found themselves *inside* the planet of Progkp as they confront Progkp’s deity, Thos, after a journey to the planet’s core.
Cubby Control Records is back with a new release by The Cubby Preachers: Cubby Preachers 6.
Cubby Preachers 6 brings together a new cast of Cubby Preachers (Dru Ariel, Ladyshackles, Ithryn Luin, Dee Kesler, Grand Kali Ma, Dusty Butlers) along with some OG CP stalwarts (Jol Devitro, Brian Weaver, The Housing Wave, and That Hideous Strength).
The sounds range from synth pop to electronic drone, from psych folk and filk (fantasy folk) to dream pop and experimental rock. And the album features fantastical cover art by Dru Ariel.
You can stream or download the album on Bandcamp...
https://cubbypreachers.bandcamp.com/album/cubby-preachers-6
Or find it in all the other usual online places like Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify and more.
Cubby Control Records announces the release of "1995-2025 Part 1" by blāācmäjik, the first in a series of compilations blāācmäjik will be releasing that includes music recorded during that time period. blāācmäjik presents the material as ~30-minute "musical podcasts," which include songs interspersed with field recordings and other audio oddities.
Stream 1995 - 2025 Part 1 by bla̅a̅cmäjik here: https://soundcloud.com/cubconrex/blaacmajik-1995-2025-part-1
blāācmäjik has chosen to release music recorded during the time period of 1995-2025 as a series of "musical podcasts" posted to Cubby Control Record's SoundCloud account. According to blāācmäjik "'1995-2025 Part 1' includes songs in no particular order other than I've finished, or mostly finished, digitizing/recording/mixing them and thought they sounded good in the order presented. But they're not in chronological order. They're songs recorded during different time periods of my musical life."
The enigmatic blāācmäjik reports that it "has been recording music for over 25 years in its adopted city of San Francisco ever since purchasing a Tascam Porta 05 Ministudio 4-Track Cassette Recorder in 1995." Not much else is known about blāācmäjik other than it describes itself as as "poorly designed AI" who lives in San Francisco, believes that "music is magick - black magick" and has released one other album back in 2019, Plight of the Avian Aliens, which blāācmäjik claims was "transmitted by an entity called The Broadcaster during the Earth years 2017 and 2018."
San Franisco today, as described by #Bauhaus - #TheSkysGoneOut (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7ok6bh-Vh/?igshid=o82goyxfzjtr
NEW RELEASE: Audio Vérité Series: FP 4 by REPTIEL
OMG, can you believe it's been over a year since Cubby Control Records has released anything?! This makes me very sad. However, what makes me happy is the brand new release from REPTIEL, the latest in their Audio Vérité Series: FP 4. Stream or download the 6 new tracks for free on cubby.net: http://cubby.net/ccr/reptielfp/fp4.htmlOr stream for free and/or download (at "name your price" -- proceeds going to REPTIEL's New Musick Fund) high quality audio files on Bandcamp...The Audio Vérité Series: FP 4 by REPTIEL on Bandcamphttps://reptiel.bandcamp.com/album/the-audio-v-rit-series-fp-4
REPTIEL's Audio Vérité Series is a vehicle for the band's spontaneously produced music recorded initially at their rehearsal space. Most of the tracks are derived from impromptu performances of improvised music never played before and perhaps never to be played again. Some tracks are segments of jams or other sounds made at rehearsal, and then later looped and/or run through effects on a computer at home, often with overdubs added to them, which may also be recorded sounds from rehearsals, or vocals, keyboards or other sounds added at home. The end result is Finished Product, or FP.
From the Archives (week 5): "Spring String" by Gnom i Snegovik from the as yet unreleased album Mystirios Anruf. Gnom i Snegovik was an experimental Russian band based in St. Petersburg. Their leader Psy Indeec gave me the files and artwork of the album Mystirios Anruf to release a number of years ago on Cubby Control Records, but I still haven't gotten around to it. It will happen, though, because I love their music, and as this track indicates, the album contains more crazy, wild yet soothing sounds. CCR has released two other Gnom i Snegovik albums: Myzel and Last Snowman.
From the Archives 2 (a weekly feature from Cubby Control Records): "See Level" by REPTIEL, performed live (and mostly acoustic save for a Moog) at (the now defunct) Viracocha in San Francisco in March 2015, opening for Benjamin Cohen. When we were asked to open at this show, we were told we needed to play mostly acoustic (because of loud noise ordinances). So we brought acoustic guitar and bass, a few pieces of our drum set, and then we were able to utilize Viracocha's piano. However, the upright piano was facing the wall on the stage, and the sound person didn't want us to try to move the piano (for good reason), so Alec had to sit facing away from us, which made it difficult to cue each other. It took a few songs to get into the groove, but got there, and "See Level" was once of the highlights. Jason Y. is on acoustic guitar, Brian Weaver on acoustic bass guitar, and Jason G. is using brushes on his drums. REPTIEL's set was recorded using Weaver's handheld Zoom H4 recorder placed at the sound person's control booth.
From the Archives (a new weekly feature from Cubby Control Records in which some audio will be presented from the CCR archives): "I Have No Irony Now" by The Cubby Creatures was a reworking of an earlier Cubby Creatures' song, "I Have Ebola Now." The original song was written by Jol as a sort of ironic take on feeling paranoid about getting sick. Ebola was making the news in the mid-1990s with outbreaks in Gabon and Zaire, which is when the original song was written. That song is very prescient for this coronavirus time but perhaps a little too close to home. The reworked version, "I Have No Irony Now," is also prescient but probably easier to stomach. The song was re-arranged by Bill with new lyrics written mostly by Karl and was in response to the period after the 9/11 attacks in which it seemed that you could not make light of what happened. Irony was dead. The world had changed and would never be the same again we were being told. The Cubby Creatures never recorded the song (in any of its arrangements) in a studio setting, but this version performed on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley in November 2001 after Jol had left the band was well recorded and a mostly spot-on performance. Some amazing playing by Emily and Jason, and if you listen to the end you'll hear us go into an abbreviated version of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
Starting today at the Main Library, 3rd floor. #sfbythebay (at San Francisco Public Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8HJo-ahDo2/?igshid=1nlelvcvn3fnw
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"Repercuss" from the new album on Cubby Control Records by San Francisco synthesizerist blāācmäjik.
