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{4} DEEP MAGIC & PINE SMOKE LODGE:split (2010)

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Few days after the commemoration of the winter solstice and on the eve of modern consumerist Christmas Day, I decided to leave you with a 4 tracks "split" cassette, of two very interesting projects. Even not being very familiar with their sound, because both Deep Magic as Pine Smoke Lodge has a dense discography.

Let's start, Pine Smoke Lodge is an duo from Portland Maine, consisting of Matt McKeever (that runs the Existential Cloth label) with Hillary Dickerson (I read somewhere that the project is "dead", although it can not comply with any certainty...), they create an alchemical music with dense layers of sounds, which both explore the meditative drone, devotional chants (mantras), intimate landscapes in which the use of instruments such as the xylophone and bells, give it a beautiful, strange nature where being merges with the surrounding universe. In a similar field, we have Deep Magic, a solo project by Alexander Gray, who has also contributed in other projects (Pocahaunted, Black Eagle Child...), that explore great drone psychedelic soundscapes which could melting our mind on a state of trance (like the 32 minute track that we find here), but beware, not all his albums contains this sublime contemplation, sometimes could be in a more noisy way. In the future I will definitely post here a record of both projects, until then, enjoy this gem.

Limited edition of 65 copies.