Thoughts On Air / Fallen Axe / Knit Prism / Trailing - Split

Heads up on another absolutely bananas multi-artist split. In addition to last years Air Rings Vol.3 on Digitalis, and the recent Taxidermy of Unicorns on Watery Starve, we've now got a killer four way split of guitar work from Fadeaway Tapes. This one features the talents of Thoughts On Air, Fallen Axe, Knit Prism, and one half of the Fadeaway team, Trailing. I won't go deep into describing each quarter of the split, they've been kind enough to upload a clip of each. What I will say is that all four sides sound damn pretty. Some go with a bit straighter take on experimental guitar/ambience, some maybe a little more wavy, but it all sound right at home together. For me the best guitar work walks a boundary where you can't quite tell what is, and what isn't, attributable to the vibration of a string. Almost all of this release sounds like that. A glistening shimmer of ambience with something like guitar nestled right at the heart of it. I love splits, so here's hoping this trend continues well into the future.

Nicely presented edition of just fifty. Blue shells, no labels, double tall white case. Grab direct from Fadeaway.

Raajmahal / Cenote Glow (Freebies!)

Guitar and vocal smeared across your dreaming subconscious by Raajmahal, with Celandine on Digitalis. Heady meditation vibes and mountain sunrise from Cenote Glow with Anza-Borrego on Fadeaway Tapes. Great tapes, great labels. I've thoroughly enjoyed them both, and now it's time to pass them along to another. If you have interest, email me at guidemelittletape at gmail dot com and they're yours, no catch. First come first serve.

Gone to Chris from San Francisco as of 9/10. Enjoy!

Bandicoot Trail - Hocus Focus

Murky underwater atmospherics from Bandicoot Trail, with Hocus Focus on Fadeaway Tapes. Ambiguous looped guitar, delicately woven into fields of vague and constantly evolving sounds. I'm digging a simultaneously claustrophobic and open ended feel to the entire affair. Ebs and flow like river grasses, the front of the c32 transitions from a heavy murk, upwards into a light hypnotic glare. The collaboration between Scott Johnson and Carter Mullin is a complex and thoroughly relaxing tape, which is exactly why I like it. Sounds like floating under the water, starring up at the sun.

Released in June, edition of 60 on clear green shells. Sold out at Discriminate, still available directly from Fadeaway.

Venn Rain - Diamond Dust

Hot on the heels of his self released 20 Loops, Jimmy Billingham, the artist behind Venn Rain and Tidal drops another killer work, this time on Fadeaway Tapes. Super lush blurred out layers of melody one on top of the other, with occasional bits of rhythm build seamlessly into a something that simultaneously sounds extraterrestrial and nostalgic. Absolutely one of my favorite artists going right now, hitting all the right notes between melody, timbre, and engaging progression. If martians land in a jungle 1,000 years from now and use some type of futuristic dowsing rod to dig this tape up from under a layer of muck, they might just let us live ...assuming they have a tape deck.

The entire new batch from Fadeaway is pretty incredible, and includes tapes from Sparkling Wide Pressure, Cenote Glow, and Aphid Palisades. Venn Rain is already sold out at some distros, but the whole batch can still be ordered like I did, direct from Fadeaway Tapes.