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Tour Guide

by Starbirthed

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Star Guide 19:37
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Silver Guide 21:32

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Expanding on the glimpse of their Summer 2019 tour offered via the "More Messages From Starbirthed" cassette, on "Tour Guide" Starbirthed presents lightly-edited sets performed live in the intimate settings of Brickbat Books in Philadelphia and Trans-Pecos in New York. From tranquil, celestial origins, the two longform pieces flow through sparse, ambient passages of synth tone and acoustic guitar, accumulating live loops until they eventually reach ecstatic release. The aura echoes the 2019 sound-healing tape releases "Starbathing" and "With the Mother" ("Silver Guide" even audibly features sounds of the rainstorm landing upon the roof of Trans-Pecos as they played), while certain moments recall the strings, synth, and breath hybrid of the Dweller On the Threshold LP. And yet, there is a singular quality to these improvisations, particularly in "Star Guide"'s final movement, which highlights the duo's vocal interplay for the first time: looped, flipped, sped-up and slowed down layers of voices mingle with ocarina bird calls, for an entirely breath-led moment of repose.

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released February 28, 2020

Ash Brooks: synth, voice, bells
ML Wah: 10-string acoustic guitar, ocarina, voice, loops

Recorded 8.16.2019 at Brickbat Books (Philadelphia, PA) and 8.7.2019 at Trans-Pecos (Ridgewood, NY). Mixed, edited, and mastered by ML at Green Lodge (Brunswick, ME), Fall 2019.

Cover illustration by Ash Brooks.

Special thanks to Jeremy Hurewitz, Jesse Sheppard, Jeffrey Alexander, and M. Geddes Gengras.

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