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Copy closer to NM

Copy closer to NM

Vinyl is close to NM. Tiny wear.

Cover with slightly bent corner

180 gram vinyl.

Records are slightly warped but still enjoyable.
Cover close to NM.

Limited edition of 100 copies on white vinyl. With booklet

Black/brown vinyl. close to NM. Limited edition

close to NM. Limited edition

close to NM. Limited edition

Itʼs been five years since the last Belong long player, as the duo works slowly to organize their sound works. Both the time invested, and the wait, have been well rewarded with this return. Common Era shows extraordinary progression from that first album of dense, scorched earth instrumentals, hints of a new direction having been revealed on the Colorless Record EP from 2008 which contained covers of four should-have-been classics from the original psychedelic era. The new material has such common pop elements as “songs”, vocals and drum machines, but the results could hardly be called conventional and are like little else happening on the current “scene”. The songs themselves are akin to radio transmissions received from another time and place, just as likely to be the future as the past, or even from a contemporary alternate universe. They are both passionate and dispassionate, grey yet technicolor, ghostly and palpable, distant yet immediate, grainy and focused. Upon listening these conceptual contradictions are dismissed with ease, as the recordings reveal that they fit all of these descriptors simultaneously, an extraordinary balancing act.

Limited edition of 150 copies on clear vinyl with blue haze. Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Original inner sleeve.

Numbered limited edition of 3000 on 180 gram vinyl with 3D lenticular sleeve and 11" x 11" full colour 12 page booklet. Beginning seam split on top seam and sticker residue on the front cover, closer to VG+. Vinyl closer to NM. Copy n° 642

Vinyl close to NM

Vinyl with a couple of light scuffs

Blue Translucent vinyl

Cover has a small cut on the front-upper left corner, otherwise NM.

Price tag. close to NM. Limited edition

Slightly different label, track 7 is called Problems With The Sun.

Close to NM!

This 7” is strictly limited to 300.

Vinyl close to VG+. Copy n° 23/100

Overall close to NM

Limited edition.

White Vinyl!

promo cd

TIM HECKER’s classic Ravedeath 1972 approaches a form of secular musical transcendentalism from within the battered temple of spirituality. Recorded in a church in Reykjavik, Iceland and using a pipe organ as the primary sound source, this piece is essentially a live recording. In reality, it exists in a nether world between captured live performance and meticulous studio work, melding the two approaches to sonic artifice as a unity. It is in parts a document of air circulating within a wooden room, and also a pagan work of physical resonance within a space once reserved for the hallowed breath of the divine. While the title of the piece “Hatred of Music” might be a clue, the album is also partly an attempt to confront a pervasive negativity surrounding music. Historical rituals of destroying pianos, mountains of pirated CDRs pushed by bulldozers in Eastern Europe, or the melancholy of the digital music era began as sideline motifs which quickly informed the work on this record. They also really didn't at all. Despite that the context is wide open in such a form of musical abstraction, the substance of these immersive compositions showcases Hecker s continued mastery of organizing sound into a visceral near entity. It is an almost physical presence that the listener feels as much as hears. This work is a significant contribution to Hecker's oeuvre, one which spans over ten years of musical production. Ravedeath is an enigmatic document of beauty and force. The album was recorded mostly over the period of one day in July of 2010. Iceland-based musician BEN Frost assisted with the engineering and performs on this recording.

White splattered vinyl seems unplayed. Still in shrink but opened with hype sticker. Tiny wear. Record Store Day edition Limited edition 2021 reissue.

digipak

tiny wear

Clear vinyl.

Label cover. .Promo copy.

Handnumbered Limited edition. Price tag.

Original inner sleeve. With insert.