Arthur Benefit CD: Transmissions From Sinai

“Here are sixteen reports, differing approaches that, through their own individualized methods, access the one ground. It’s a privilege and blessing to have known many of the musicians on this disc, to have shared in song with some, and stages with others. In all cases I have been the healed recipient of their craft sitting alone with my headphones… Here is their auditory journal.”

—Al Cisneros February 2009

1. Lichens – “Kopernik Trip Note” (previously unreleased)
2. Linval Thompson – “Wicked Babylon”
3. Grouper – “Everyone in Turn”
4. Current 93 – “Mockingbird”
5. Quixotic – “The Breeze”
6. Scott Kelly – “The Ladder In My Blood”
7. Hush Arbors – “The Valley”
8. Mia Doi Todd – “Night of a Thousand Kisses”
9. Six Organs of Admittance – “Bar-Nasha” (previously unreleased)
10. Holy Sons – “Drifter’s Sympathy”
11. Pantaleimon – “At Dawn”
12. Grails – “Acid Rain”
13. Sir Richard Bishop – “Almeria” (previously unreleased)
14. J. Mascis – “War” (previously unreleased)
15. Wino – “Silver Lining”
16. Alpha & Omega – “David and Goliath”

All proceeds go to supporting Arthur Magazine’s mission.                             Curated by Al Cisneros (of Om, Sleep). Edition of 1,000.

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Pantaleimon – Heart of the Sun

Pantaleimon’s sparse, austere compositions are textural expressions of emotional vacancy that, in their numbness, bristle with a sense of long-repressed resentment. The songs, private whispers through frosted windows, ache with the futility of glass-eyed sorrow.  Her newest full-length, Heart of the Sun, is a remix of her earlier work Mercy Oceans. It also features four previously unreleased tracks including a collaboration with Strings Of Consciousness and a cover version of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s ‘Even If Love’, from his  masterpiece (in my opinion) Master and Everyone.

[ download ] “Even if Love” (Bonnie Prince Billy cover) – from Heart of the Sun

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