Pulse Emitter / Acre - Split (Cherried-Out Merch, 2006)

A Pulse Emitter - Untitled 12:05
B Acre - Untitled 13:51

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Steven R. Smith - From Ashes Come (3 Acre Floor, 2000)

1 Loomings (4:22)
2 Footfalls Stitched Among Others (3:01)
3 Her Walking Dress (8:02)
4 Latitudes (2:31)
5 Behind And Before (6:16)
6 Dusking (6:30)
7 Tow-Line Onto Surface (4:34)
8 To Rise And Move On (3:52)

Riffs épiques et crescendos apocalyptiques...

Before his imagination fled into the shadows of walled hamlets and wooden chapels and evolved the mysteries of Hala Strana out of East European traditional musics, Steven R. Smith was busily making soundtracks for more barren landscapes. From Ashes Come (1999) and Slate Branches (2000) are characterized by atmospheres constructed around the electric guitar, both records being chock full of epic riffs and apocalyptic crescendos that take their time growing from the bracken and ashes of weird percussion, drones, bowed wails and toy piano melodies. Wonderful, lonely, reverb soaked instrumentals that make perfect rainy day soundtracks. Steven R. Smith has always been an inventor of instruments, and while now he's more obsessed with experimenting with the mechanics and tonalities of Hungarian traditional instruments, on these earlier records recorded under his own name we recognize a spirit more akin to Harry Partch, where unusual and/or abandoned objects are modified and given a musical -- if only fleeting -- life. Perhaps with some of the earliest Thuja, these recordings are very much at the root of things for what was to become the Jewelled Antler family tree. (If you're not convinced you need them both, From Ashes Come might be closer in nature to the epic moods of Mirza while Slate Branches indulges more in sublime tonalities and atmospheres before divulging its rock).
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