Browse by Artist: SPECK MOUNTAIN

Artist:	SPECK MOUNTAIN
Title:	Summer Above
Label:	BURNT BROWN SOUNDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BBS 001CD

"Speck Mountain is where liquid organ drones and sacramental guitar lines shimmer in a psychedelically corrupt gospel haze behind Marie-Claire Balabanian's Stevie Nicks-on-downers/Hope Sandoval-on-uppers vox. Filled in with slow-motion funk bass-lines, electric piano, blanched-out sax, one lonely melodica, and enough tape delay to stretch from Pacific sea caves all the way to the Northern Lights -- everything here echoes, everything glows. With roots in Detroit, Portland, and L.A., the three core band members have all finally settled in Chicago, and begun to establish a live reputation for extremely textured renditions of Karl Briedrick and Marie-Claire's plaintive space-rock songs. Their self-produced debut, Summer Above, was recorded at John McEntire's Soma Electronic Studios in Chicago, and Dubway in New York. The sound palette takes in the history of mind-altered music, without sounding like any of it in particular. But the songwriting is direct and emotional, lending itself naturally to multi-instrumentalist Kate Walsh's languid soul shadings. And if you hear organic strains of electronica growing in the deeper areas of the mix, then Speck Mountain's sonic alchemy is working, because no synths were used on this record."

Artist:	SPECK MOUNTAIN
Title:	Some Sweet Relief
Label:	CARROT TOP
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SAKI 046CD

"Following their debut release of Summer Above, Speck Mountain releases Some Sweet Relief. Written about the rapture and consequences of desire, this album can truly relieve the mind with its beautiful simplicity. By combining the strength of Marie-Claire Balabanian's lungs with the intuitive, spiky rhythms of Karl Briedrick's guitar, the two writers have been called 'musical soul mates.' The songs have been filled out with piano, organ, sax, and vintage effects, the mixes booby-trapped all over with headphone-happy detail."

Artist:	SPECK MOUNTAIN
Title:	Some Sweet Relief
Label:	CARROT TOP
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SAKI 046LP

LP version. "Following their debut release of Summer Above, Speck Mountain releases Some Sweet Relief. Written about the rapture and consequences of desire, this album can truly relieve the mind with its beautiful simplicity. By combining the strength of Marie-Claire Balabanian's lungs with the intuitive, spiky rhythms of Karl Briedrick's guitar, the two writers have been called 'musical soul mates.' The songs have been filled out with piano, organ, sax, and vintage effects, the mixes booby-trapped all over with headphone-happy detail."

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