S/T, by Samara Lubelski/Bill Nace

S/T

by Samara Lubelski/Bill Nace

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1.	Spiral Reflector 08:28	buy track
2.	Mazed 07:00	buy track
3.	Re/Fract/Ed 08:16	buy track
4.	Sides 12:08	buy track
5.	Then/Not Then 05:03	buy track

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Gorgeously psychedelic debut LP by this new guitar/violin duo, created by two of the form's great maestros.
Samara Lubelski and Bill Nace are both veterans of the American sub-underground. Between them they have many projects under many names on many labels. Most recently, however, the two have been focused on string-based duo aktion, Samara in cahoots with Marcia Bassett, and Bill with Kim Gordon in Body/Head. These two ensembles explore different expanses of the genre. The Lubelski/Bassett Duo focus on the powerful beauty of drone rainbow landscapes, while Body/Head venture into dialogues dealing with subconscious dream language. On this album Bill and Samara create a hybrid between these approaches, offering textual interactions that blaze like fire.
On the five tracks of their eponymous LP, Samara's violin creates a base of long form string distention, against which Bill's amp-shudder creates event surges that fill your brain with frozen images of walls caught in mid-collapse, and continents sinking into a sea. Their motion has tectonic implications. About all I can compare it to is momentary flashes of A Handful of Dust (the Bruce Russell/Alastair Galbraith unit), but the intent here seems quite different, and as mentioned before, the results feel bracingly psychedelic.
Have not had a chance to spin this after an acid drop yet. Will wait for the actual LP to do that, but I'm thinking it will make for a most excellent pairing. I suggest you consider the same. Tout de suite.
-Byron Coley

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released January 1, 2018

Samara Lubelski--violin
Bill Nace----electric guitar

Recorded at Sonelab
Easthampton MA
by Justin Pizzoferrato
Mixed by Bill Nace andJustin Pizzoferrato
Spencer Herbst--cover art

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