Sungod // Starscape TAPE

A cassette released in February 2023 by the psychedelic band Sungod from Texas, USA, with a limited edition of 2 from Crash Symbols, an underground label in West Virginia, USA.

Contains 10 songs from cosmic ambient to krautrock to space rock. DL code included. Out of print.

Below, Not Not Fun Records presided overCommentary by Britt Brown.

"Texas psychedelic voyager, Sungod's latest, Kosmish Feast, was recorded in a series of sessions in Austin from 2014 to 2016, and its interstellar dynamics are irrelevant to temporal categorization. This is time-free music that spans from earth to star.Starscape presents omnivorous delights such as ritual drones, rippling synths, cosmic prog, intergalactic drift and rainbow disco. , sometimes all in the same track, their chemistry is ravenous and one of the biggest, brimming with ideas, instruments, colors and chaos enough to seed a dozen projects.Co-Founder Braden Valentin of !Of course, confusion is a matter of perspective, and for Sungod, all things must come to pass.

On this album, Valentin and co-founder Michael C. Sharp are joined by flutist Christine Rome and pianist and organist Nick Lombard to diversify an already rich palette.The opening "Valley of Wonder" embraces the devotional resonance of Pelto's style.Gongs, winds, strings and singing bowls float like smoke over the twilight mesa, summoning something greater beyond.Then arc through a multi-movement aurora of pulsing electronics, thundering leads and motoric rhythms (“Cahokia,” “Find Your Energy,” “Starscape,” “White Light/ESP”) in a tunnel of fractal atmospheres. Ascension begins. Hints of '90s trance, chillout and big room acid flicker in the stratosphere, but ultimately Sungod's trajectory is too restless to map effectively.

This is the dancefloor music of alien moons and rogue comets, primordial dawns and vortexes, alternately abstract and anthemic.A 10-song odyssey of expansion and escape, from the inner space of molecules to the dreamy end of the universe. "

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Includes DL code. Edition of 150.

Text by Britt Brown (Not Not Fun Records):

"The latest kosmische feast from Texan psychedelic voyagers Sungod was recorded across a series of 2014 to 2016 sessions in Austin but its interstellar dynamics are such that temporal categorization feels irrelevant; omnivore's delight of ceremonial drone, rippling synths, cosmic prog, galactic drift, and rainbow disco – sometimes all in the same track. Theirs is a voracious, maximalist chemistry, overflowing with enough ideas, instruments, color, and chaos to seed a dozen different projects. Co-founder Braden Balentine admits as much, describing the album as 'a purposefully adventurous, ambitious, mess of a record.' Messes, of course, are matters of perspective; to a Sungod, all things must come to pass.

For this collection Balentine and fellow co-founder Michael C. Sharp were joined by flutist Kristine Reaume and pianist / organist Nick Lombard, diversifying their already rich palette. Opener “Valley of Wonder” takes cues from the Pelt school of devotional resonance: gongs, wind, strings, and singing bowls float like smoke on a twilit mesa, summoning some great beyond. Then the ascension begins, arcing through a multi-movement aurora borealis (“Cahokia,” “Find Your Energy,” “Starscape,” “White Light / ESP”) of pulsing electronics, soaring leads, and motorik rhythm in a tunnel of fractal atmospheres. Hints of 90's trance, chill out, and big room acid flicker in the stratosphere but ultimately Sungod's trajectory is too restless for effective mapping.

This is music of alien moons and rogue comets, of primordial dawns and vortex dance floors, alternately abstract and anthemic. A 10-track odyssey of expansion and escape, from molecular inner space to the edges of the dreamable universe."

Artist : Sungod

Label: Crash Symbols