Supplement to the Portable Archive: Sub Loam - Excavated Relics

 Supplement to the Portable Archive

Additional Items Received 2019

Two recently rediscovered examples of Anomalous Loam dating from c. 2009 - 2010 excavated and displayed on professional, high quality, real-time duplicated cassettes in a clear cassette case with printed j-card and cardboard outer slipcase.

Outliers from the early trilogy of Cotton Goods/Dissolving releases Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle (2009 - 2010, as documented on The Portable Archive and digitally), these two tracks, around ten minutes each, are thematically and musically related whilst standing at a remove from the circle of those original releases. Four-track murk, hiss and delay, fragmentary percussives, guitar strings as contour lines and twisting stems, burgeoning organic clouds, analogue electronics, observation and contemplation.

The connections with the spiked rural wanderings of Earthern Circle, the heavy soil dubs of 2 and the radiant moods of Ohr are clear whilst also travelling outwards from those zones towards the territory where these two other, previously unreleased, distinct artefacts were discovered.

Two Archaic Remnants, excavated from magnetic tape 2018.

Released October 19, 2019

All instruments, music, recording, production, artwork etc. Sub Loam (Thomas Shrubsole) 

C22. 45 Copies only. 

Available to order directly.

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Ruderal Memory now out @ Boomkat.com

Sub Loam's limited edition Ruderal Memory album is now available from Boomkat:

http://boomkat.com/cds/700917-sub-loam-ruderal-memory

" Ghostly, longform electro-acoustic invocation from Sub Loam, the character also known as Thomas Shrubsole and Jesus On Mars. Via soprano saxophone fed through multi-cassette, twin-reel-to-reel set up, 'Ruderal Memory' manifests 45 minutes of seancé-like atmosphere with patiently unfolding arrangement informed by yoga breathing techniques and conducted from an anti-anthropocentric stance in key with Sub Loam's themes of elemental interplay and chlorophyllic consciousness. Aesthetically we're reminded of Robin The Fog's spectral experiments on 'The Ghosts Of Bush' or the quivering microtones yielded in William Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops', yet as with all of Shrubsole's output, there's a deeply individual spirit at work, following his own quiet path to personal enlightenment. "
 

Vernal Equinox Update ... Ruderal Memory by Sub Loam - Out now!

Green stirrings and the resting, momentarily balanced forces of the equinox. We are pleased at this auspicious and special time to announce the return of Sub Loam with a new piece, the 45 minute, one-track album Ruderal Memory.

Generated with soprano saxophone and a multi-cassette, twin reel-to-reel set up this is a music of slow unfolding, accretion, prismatic disassembling and dissolution and eventual synthesis leading to transformation and (RELEASE).

Organically investigating the interface, symbolised and exemplified by breath mediated through the saxophone, of the interior and exterior and its union (YOGA).

The CDr is limited to a numbered run of 50 and comes in a hand-stamped heavy recycled card 7" folder in a poly bag. Each package contains a card wallet holding the CDr and an individual art insert, every artwork being a unique design and combination of forms within a defined set of parameters, similar in approach to the music, taking as a starting point the symbolism and geometry of Sri Yantra.

Microtones, tape-manipulation and saxophones; ink, water and lines, all focussed through Sub Loam's themes of elemental interplay and chlorophyllic consciousness.

Music mixed in one continuous take live in the studio for your pleasure and utility.
 

Sub Loam - Ruderal Memory (Henge 008)

Released: 21/03/2013

https://soundcloud.com/dissolvingrecords/sub-loam-ruderal-memory-henge

Tracklisting: Ruderal Memory (44.03) 

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Thank you.

Next Release...

A new year, a return to spring and a new release on Dissolving from Sub Loam.
Scheduled for the end of March, this is an album-length 45 minute piece which will be released in a special limited edition.
Keep checking back here for further updates...

Jesus on Mars

Jesus on Mars - Jesus on Mars (Henge 006) 

Released: 26/07/2012

... jerry-rigged nests of wires and plugs wrapped in multicoloured sleeves, potent transcendental devices awaiting the engagement of an active imagination, spreading out below a bird’s-eye viewer, clouds of dust, petrified ripples, gleams of water, crumbling cities, strange figures… the Martian deserts of the Mind. 

Sound: 

Tracklisting:

1. Jesus on Mars

2. Martian Deserts of the Mind

3. At the Dreaming Pole

4. Galactic Pot Healer

5. Martian Time Slip

The album features 53 minutes of electronic trip-outs, temporal concatenations and expansions; inner-spatial vistas and ferric visions of arcane pulp planetscapes. Packaged in a gatefold-style colour sleeve with cover painting by Thomas Shrubsole. 

Edition of 170 copies only.

Available to buy from Boomkat http://boomkat.com/cds/556053-jesus-on-mars-jesus-on-mars , Norman's http://www.normanrecords.com/records/135480-jesus-on-mars-jesus-on , Piccadilly http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/JesusOnMars-JesusOnMars-DissolvingRecords-84926.html  and direct from the label 

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Enjoy!

New Album Out Soon on Dissolving...

NEW ALBUM RELEASE FOR JULY

'Jesus on Mars'

I have great pleasure in announcing the imminent release of the latest long-playing missive from Dissolving, electrified science-fiction epic Jesus on Mars. Black holes of analogue swirl, synth-scoured planetary surfaces and inner-spatial trips dedicated to P K Dick, R Pinhas and C Schnitzler. Expect this in the shops in early July, soundcloud clips will follow soon.

Keep an eye here for photos, tracklisting and stockists in the next couple of weeks...