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Limited Edition 12" LP + Human Form CD + Endlings S/T CD
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
This package includes the Endlings Human Form 12" on 150 gram vinyl + Insert and DL card along with the CD of Human Form and Endlings 2017 Self-Titled Release
Includes unlimited streaming of Human Form
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Human Form CD + S/T Endlings CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Get the Human Form CD + 2017 Endlings Self-Titled CD in one package
Includes unlimited streaming of Human Form
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 16-bit/44.1kHz.
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Human Form Test Press + LP (Edition of 1)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Ultra-limited edition test pressing + Human Form LP + LP of your choice.
Test pressing from Smashed Plastic. Edition of 1.
Includes unlimited streaming of Human Form
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Endlings is a duo comprised of Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich and composer and artist Raven Chacon. On Human Form, the duo expand upon the haunted abstraction of their 2017 self-titled debut. Four years on, Human Form offers a distillation of a collaborative and improvisatory relationship that began with a performance 10 years ago at the Albuquerque Experimental Music Festival. On Human Form, they are joined on three songs by virtuoso percussionist Marshall Trammell and Iranian artist Babak Shahsiah provided cover art for the LP.
Human Form moves from short-wave music box transmissions piped in from The Overlook’s Grand Ballroom (“In Us Confide,”), to tension-filled percussive tracks (“Pre-Bird,” “Indictor”), to ambitious long-form compositions that seem to be interpolating between multiple grooves while simultaneously building up and breaking down brackish melodies, surging drones and crushing electronics with laser-guided intensity (“Save and Hold Fantasy Threats,” “Primordial Forms”). Scattered throughout are moments of heavily weighted beauty that permeate the record, from the sun-lit microtonal ascendance of “Cither” to the joyful cacophony of “Frágil”.
There is a pervasive sense of awe and reverence for the music Chacon and Dieterich are cultivating on Human Form. These sounds, created by two veteran noise-makers and collaborators, have a way of attaching themselves to you long after the needle has lifted – a ghostly aura refracted in sunlight, revealing impossible yet immediately recognizable worlds.
Raven Chacon is a Berlin Prize winning Diné composer, visual and sound artist and Southwest noise legend. Chacon has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, Laura Ortman and many more. John Dieterich is a guitarist, composer and producer based in Albuquerque, NM. He plays in the band Deerhoof and collaborates on a variety of musical and artistic projects.
Endlings is John Dieterich (Deerhoof) and Raven Chacon. Together Endlings largely improvised, expressionistic compositions that span from noisy interpolations of percussive driven music to free-form freak outs.
The eerie decline during the closing act of this record are unbelievable; one of my favourite conclusions to an album in ages. Turns out the whole thing is immense too - scratching, crumpled, electronically-sabotaged tones bouncing against Trammell's scattershot percussive reflexes. jack-chuter
Mexican composers Leena Lee and Vania Fortuna use sound as a tool to interrogate the mythologies of the emblematic quetzal bird. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 1, 2022
The Berlin musical collective put a cyber-noir twist on modern classical, pitting warm, delicate strings against harsh industrial tones. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 30, 2021
Visionist showcases vocals for the first time on his Mute debut, featuring collabs with members of Circuit des Yeux, Black Midi and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 5, 2021
My humanities professor showed me this piece and i cannot stop coming back to it. Something deep and alluring of this piece keeps me wanting more. Absolutely one of my favorite cuts from last year. Ra!