SPIRAL
GALAXY ”S/T"
 •Expansive
kosmische sounds with flute, sitar and
electronics, that travels from devotional
soundscapes to motorik beats,
freak-folk and beyond.
•Guest-starring: Jean-Hervé of the
legendary Faust, Kawabata of Acid
Mothers Temple, Alisha Sufit of Magic
Carpet, and Ryley Walker.
•For heads who dig Yatha Sidhra, Emtidi,
early Kraftwerk, La Düsseldorf, Popol
Vuh, and Sand “Golem
Traveling the spaceways as Spiral Galaxy,
flautist/painter Sara Gossett and treated
guitar/machines manipulator Plastic
Crimewave (of Plastic Crimewave
Syndicate/Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine)
have created devotional sonic voyages
and droney soundscapes with the occasional
rhythmic pulse to conjure the textural
and kosmische vibe of 70s German seekers
like Yatha Sidhra, Emtidi, Popul Vuh,
Achim Reichel, Sand, and early
Kraftwerk. The duo have just completed their
first album, expansive tracks they had been
performing live on tours in the UK and
Italy, plus USA events like Chicago
Psych Fest, Milwaukee Psych Fest, Far
Out Nashville festival, and The Feed Me
Weird Things series in Iowa City.
Treating the studio as an instrument, new
layers, instruments and collaborators were
added to the heady mix, like special
guests Jean-Hervé Péron of legendary
avant-German collective Faust (who Spiral
Galaxy was lucky enough to open for,
and collaborate with on stage); Kawabata
Makoto of Japanese communal psychlords Acid
Mothers Temple on chants and spoken voice;
and Alisha Sufit of UK 70s
eastern-folk band Magic Carpet (also
chanting her heart out). Also appearing on
the album are guitar wunderkind
Ryley Walker (playing backwards guitar
on this, not easy!), Taralie of Spires that
in the Sunset Rise on Terry Riley-ish
circular sax, sitar-player Hands of Hydra,
Moog-maestro Will MacLean of Protovulcan,
and Christian Luke Brady of meditative
Virginia cosmonauts Fargon. What results is
a dense, hallucinogenic, sonic tapestry of
an LP that covers many moods—from divine
soundscapes to Krautrock's motorik
beats, doomy experimental pieces to
dark acid folk, and beyond.
Catalog #: LION LP-190
UPC: 778578319014
Format: Black vinyl edition of 300x
copies (150x for Lion/150x for Cardinal
Fuzz)
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