Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind - C or D?

search out xaman and all will be revealed.

The best drone record of the year is Oren Ambarchi's one on Southern Lord. Just pure unadulterated bowel-loosener.

What sounds like Sunroof!'s "Cortez The Killer?" That fucking RULES harder than anything else I've heard from Bower. You can hear a clip of it on the surefire site....hold on i'll try to link to it

My buddy Regina was telling me about a short-lived Stephen O'Malley project that had a female singer - what the hell is this?

What does Khanate have to do with Orange Canyon Mind? I don't hear any similarity.

Orange Canyon Mind = not classic, but I love the first few songs.

it do indeed. that's yer overlooked/underrated/whatever album right there.

Orange Canyon Mind is OK - esp. that track 'Annihilating Angel' - but I don't think it's anywhere near as compelling as Green by Hototogisu which, to my ears at least, seems to be some kind of 'advance' on the basic noise-drone method

Yes, and remarkably it's one of the few still available! Coincidence?

Thorr's Hammer, who did one album on Southern Lord

This album reminds me a lot of Exquisite Fucking Boredom which I didn't love. Maybe I should give Green another shot, I normally go ape for the Hototogisu records. Swoon Scream for instance I could listen to for days.

I haven't heard so much of the Hototogisu stuff (not even sure what the first cd-r is!) but I love the blasting high end drone with Marcia Bassett filling in the deep spaces.

right, right. that's why i bought the cd, so i could LOOK COOL ON THE INTERNET. good call.

the first one is the white wind of autumn, mcd, it's all tinkly and pretty and acoustic (which is pretty much what hototogisu was until last year). lots of toy instruments. they were pretending to be a lost japanese drone collective ala taj mahal travellers at the time.

Or they just like the music?

Anyhow, I just re-listened to the whole of Orange Canyon Mind and while it's not the best of the bunch, still CLASSIC. The track "Orange Canyon Mind" is new-wavey drone and catchy!

El Sabor, I look fwd to checking out the White Wind of Autumn as your descrip sounds quite nice.

really looking fwd to the 3-disc reissue of early albums/singles on VHF.

new album loved on a bed of roses fucked on a pile of corpses is monumentally good, too. (more thoughts here)

whoa, great news! have any more info about the upcoming vhf release?

it's not even on the VHF site yet, but Aquarius wrote a HUUUUGE review of it - their lead review this week:

(scroll to 1st record listed)

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html

nice. already have carved into roses but not infinityland but what I'm really excited about is that singles disc!!

Oh shit, thanks for pointing out that box. How does that stuff compare to Argon and This Is Skullflower? I don't really like those two too much but I really love IIIrd Gatekeeper, Xaman, Last Shot At Heaven and Obsidian Shaking Codex.

I find all the other newer things, side projects included, to be pretty disappointing. It all seems to easy, not enough depth. Drone by the numbers almost. I own a lot of it, but I don't have much time for it. I think loop pedals are exceedingly bad for drone, although this is a conclusion I only came to after doing a lot of loop pedal drone crap myself. Drone needs a deeper commitment to the sounds... or something

You'll probably dig these going by the ones you love. Pretty much my favorite period of Skullflower.

I find all the other newer things, side projects included, to be pretty disappointing. It all seems to easy, not enough depth. Drone by the numbers almost.

Yeah, absolutely agree with this. Old Skullflower/later Total/Sunroof stuff was so much more interesting than any of the newer stuff.