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Captain Beefheart - Tarotplane (1971)

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

SPLIXTAPE

Four artists for the price of one! It’s a SPLIXTAPE. Good stuff from start to finish here. Prana Crafter continues to explore a swirly sonic landscape, moving from Neil Young-y broods to freaky moods. ragenap (AKA Joel Berk, whose sweet blahg you are no doubt familiar with) kicks off his contribution with a “Dark Star”-ish groove, which then (appropriately) shifts into an abstract, spacey zone. NICE. Side two features an array of ominous whooshes from Tarotplane and Horse Apples, often gentle but not exactly soothing, occasionally interrupted by lashes of wah guitar. Six bucks? This shit is priceless. SPLIX! 

[theunderperformicist]

Tarotplane / The Ektachrome Dawn

Art & Design: Jonny E-J

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Tarotplane — The Feedback Sutras (VG+)

The Feedback Sutras by Tarotplane

Languid patterns of echo-sheathed guitar and synth ebb and flow here in extended instrumental meditations. Baltimore’s PJ Dorsey hints at eastern mysticism in both the title, the trance-like calm of his music and some faintly raga-ish curves and flourishes. The tone is much of a piece with Tarotplane’s side of last year’s split with Prana Crafter, Symbiose, which I described as “serene, laying slow-blooming tone-washes atop summer cricket hiss vibrations, setting off friction-y twitches that skitter over liquid clear guitar lines.”

Dorsey is influenced by the space atmospherics of 1970s kosmiche musik as embodied by bands like Ash Ra Temple, Cluster and Tangerine Dream. He has, however, a warmer, more organic sound than these bands. His two long tracks here are less a transmission from deep space, more a missive from nature; to my ears, they evoke flowing water, plants, sunshine, a flickering play of light and shadow.

Side one, the title track, in particular, seems to curve and uncurl in a very organic way, its synth tones fluttering in flute-like tones against great lulling washes of sustained tones. The cut moves slowly, but it moves, great whooshing surges of air brushing by as you proceed. A subtle eastern flavor permeates “The Feedback Sutra,” though nothing so obvious that you can put your finger on it. Even the notes that are recognizable as guitar notes echo with a strange, supernatural reverberance.  

“Between Two Islands” which makes up side two, is layered with dense, overlapping drones. Where “Feedback Sutras” follow a skeletal half-melody, this second half seems to meditate on its notes one at a time, in and of themselves. It is all immediate sensation, less of a journey, more of an epiphany.

Both sides are quite calming and beautiful, uneventful but in no way tedious. There is a stillness in them that resonates well with deep, undirected thought. I looked for video of Dorsey playing to try to get a grip on exactly what he’s doing, but couldn’t find any. Perhaps it’s better not to know?

Jennifer Kelly

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The Bitterness Ship | En vivo 

TarotPlane presentó un set con composiciones de todos sus discos en el Centro de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos 10. The Bitterness Ship es una canción del disco Quebranto publicado en 2010. A casi una década de distancia se interpretó nuevamente en versión acústica. Guitarra acústica y cajón. 

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