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The Dweller on the Threshold

by Starbirthed

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  • Art Edition Starbirthed "Dweller On the Threshold" Vinyl + Flower Room Sweatshirt Bundle
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    Order both the new Starbirthed art edition vinyl (limited to 100) and the tri-color silkscreen printed Flower Room sweatshirt together and save! Includes Starbirthed's "The Dweller On the Threshold" vinyl package (with hand-painted, hand-screenprinted cover, exclusive bonus Starbirthed cassette "More Messages From Starbirthed", and 2" Flower Room embroidered patch) as well as the seafoam green > teal > peacock blue split-fountain color gradient Flower Room logo sweatshirt, hand-screenprinted on super soft 80/20 blend Hanes Nano Premium lightweight pullover crewneck black sweatshirt. Select your shirt size at the dropdown menu below. Also includes digital download of exclusive 13+ minute Starbirthed track!

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  • Limited Edition Cassette + Frankincense
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    Home-dubbed Type I music-grade c40 with hand-stamped silver glitter cassette shell. Full-color double-sided pro-printed tip-on covers on clear polybox, hand-numbered to 100. Packaged with two mini sticks of Frankincense, one to be burned at the beginning of each side of the tape.

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  • Limited Art Edition Vinyl with Bonus Cassette and 2" Embroidered Patch
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    Hand-numbered limited art edition of 100! Deluxe vinyl reissue of the out-of-print cassette. Black 12" vinyl held in rice paper sleeve, with a hand-painted, silkscreened, and hand-inked cover, numbered to 100. Includes full-length exclusive Starbirthed bonus cassette "More Messages From Starbirthed" and a 2" embroidered patch of the Flower Room logo.

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In January 2018, kosmische new-New-Age duo Starbirthed offered up their first album-length collection of deep-space psalms under the title The Dweller on the Threshold. An early and enduring fan favorite, the limited edition silver-sparkle cassette presented five wordless improvisations recorded at the Portland, Maine healing center Present Moment as meditations on the mythology and modern archaeology of Saturn, and its 100 copies disappeared from circulation completely over the next few months. Now, following a recent fan vote, Dweller has been selected for resurrection, rising from the depths of spent frankincense dust to appear in vinyl form for a one-time art edition pressing of 100 copies.

Specially remastered for vinyl and lacquer-cut by Carl Saff, the higher fidelity offered by the vinyl medium shines a brighter light into the dusky corners of this alternately wonder-filled and deep, dark album, with synth, strings, and breath commingling in unified cosmic expression. As with the Cassini mission that inspired the music, the album attempts to explore the planet from every angle possible, melding science and folklore into compelling and expressive instrumental narratives. The story climaxes late in the closing of final track "In the Rings pt.2" with sounds representing the Cassini spacecraft's final death dive through Saturn's atmosphere--a moment so highly charged it nearly leaps out of the groove--before raining down a final echoing storm of cosmic debris.

Thanks to the demand and support of our fans, we are thrilled to be making this album available on vinyl for the first (and only!) time in a deluxe art edition package, which includes the new and exclusive full-length bonus tape "More Messages From Starbirthed" and a tri-color embroidered Flower Room patch.

credits

released January 19, 2018

Ash Brooks: Casio MT-210, voice
ML Wah: 10-string guitar, melodica, voice, bell, ocarina, loops

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Exploration & discoveries in improvisation & harmonization ☄ Tonal cosmology, virtual rurality, and hymns to the cosmos and the natural world, to heal and inspire a more harmonious You-We-All ☤ Welcome

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