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LR 226EP
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"Leaving Records founder person Matthewdavid presents the On Mushrooms EP, a primer for the Mycelium Music album to be released Q2 2023. Both works are expressed from the same ecosystem, cut from the same cloth. The following is a listening experience testimonial written by Matt Baldwin -- esteemed Californian guitarist, writer, and psychotherapist trained in psychedelic psychotherapy." "An encounter with this music is like finding a trapdoor in the floor of your room and realizing that there has always been an endless network of glittering caves right beneath your feet. And what's more: the caves are somehow alive and networked with the pale golden filigree of secret sigils inscribed with the subtle fire of moonphased zither song. It's worth pointing out, that in dream analysis, dreams about finding hidden spaces often symbolize an expanding sense of self possibility. Matthewdavid has created a work of art that is the hidden twin of silence and darkness. Not the darkness of fear and isolation but the velvet darkness that germinates, gently caressing new forms into being. The joy of this music is in its deep privacy. It shimmers with sunlight and, like a cypress branch, holds a piece of night throughout the day. It carries us forward on waves of magnetic light and we find ourselves taken into the misty forests beyond the edge of the world where the wounds of humanity are forever healed and there is no law but imagination."
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Matthewdavid is a co-founder of the Los Angeles label Leaving Records, and a collaborator of Flying Lotus, Sun Araw, Julia Holter, Laraaji, Odd Nosdam, among others. Experimental Bliss is his first album on Umor Rex, two long pieces devoted to the bliss of experimental music creation. This is unconventional music, aiming to assist the listener in attaining a state of bliss or relaxation. It incorporates obvious artifacts of compressed noise and texture with harmonic tonal elements. The creative process is always evolving and changing, often relying on digital music software and hardware technology to process and re-sample collected "organic" sounds from analog or environmental sources. Side A, "Lo-Fi Bliss Music", was recorded and performed live at the Leaving Records modern new age night event, using dynamic compression experiments with a processed and looped Critter & Guitari pocket piano, and ocean sounds samples from a cassette. "Dynamic Rhythmicals" was recorded live at home, using digital marimba samples. Includes download code; edition of 100.
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BRAINF 019LP
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