Grey Orders, Distant Trails, by Sandoz Lab Technicians

Grey Orders, Distant Trails

by Sandoz Lab Technicians

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1.	Long Arm 05:15	buy track
2.	Trail Of Ears 01:30	buy track
3.	Four Knocks For No 02:29	buy track
4.	Horse Nails 02:56	buy track
5.	Alamout Black 04:08	buy track
6.	Third Day Mirage 04:09	buy track
7.	Lily II 02:56	buy track
8.	Sundogs 03:40	buy track
9.	Loosen The Thread 02:52	buy track
10.	Star Eye 05:07	buy track
11.	Crawling Towards The Firelight... 01:24	buy track
12.	...In The Dead Of Night, Mothlike 03:48	buy track
13.	Old Hand 03:49	buy track

about

Improvised soundtrack to a non-existent Western, recorded in the late ‘90s by James Kirk, Nathan Thompson and Tim Cornelius.

"Deep South kitchen-sink explorers have been circling the drain in counterclockwise fashion for at least half my life and yet I am still reduced to shameless gobsmackery in the presence of this sterling new collection of historic treasures. Committed live-to-tape in the comfy climes of a living room/recording studio/temple affectionately known as 'Canongate' (a kinda homespun CBGBs of Dunedin's out-sound universe) Sandoz here bristle with the million-ideas-per-minute glory that hovers over their finest blossoms. Unrivalled in their inventiveness and the seemingly infinite permutations of 'shouldn't work but does' instrumentation, 'Grey Orders...' creaks and rattles like ringing spurs on the empty bar floor of some unseen antipodean western. Whether this makes more sense envisioning the cactus-pronged wastes of Arizona or the deserted main streets deep in the blistering badlands of central Otago is best left to the ear of the beholder, but one things for goddamnsure... there's gold in these here hills and I'm gettin' me a mule and a pick-axe."
- Campbell Kneale

credits

released May 15, 2019

James Kirk • Nathan Thompson • Tim Cornelius - Playing electric and acoustic guitars, drums, violin, autoharp, bass, reed and bamboo flutes, clarinet, vocals, ukulele, electric piano, analog synthesizer, tapes/field recordings, toys, percussion, whistling.

Recorded by James Kirk live to Sony TC-580 quarter-inch tape recorder at 8 Canongate, Dunedin, New Zealand 1997-1999. Mastered by Forbes Williams. Line notes by Sally Ann McIntyre and Campbell Walker. Cover by Tim Cornelius. Thanks to Forbes, Sally, Campbell, Jani, Timo.

Released 2019 on LP in an edition of 250 copies by Ikuisuus, Finland. IKU-055. © SLT 2019. bluntinstrumentals1@gmail.com
Dedicated to Donald McPherson. Happy trails ol’ buddy.

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Sandoz Lab Technicians New Zealand

SLT are a free multi-instrumental improvising trio (originally a quartet) formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1993. Numerous releases, performances & activities hither & yon... Six albums to date, plus numerous EPs, singles and compilation appearances. New album out now and looking for a shiny vinyl home! ... more