This album is part of Lost Tribe Sound's 11 album series, 'Maps to Where the Poison Grows.' Subscribe to the series to receive a discounted price on the CD or digital version, here:
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At the core of Drawing Virtual Gardens ’22:22,’ there is a keen sense of the nocturnal, and a blurring of lines between the waking and the dream state. Focusing on small synchronous events within these hypnagogic periods, Gutman takes inspiration and translates them into musical cadence. Blankets of dense sub-bass coat minimal dub-like rhythmic structures. Warm flickers of guitar form brief conversations before seceding to the thick low-end percussions. Elsewhere, muted horns cascade into the recesses lending a weary jazz-like quality, or mimicking a less exotic type of fourth world sound.
While the similarities to fourth world brass are less evident on ’22:22,’ it was the decadent combination of melting trumpet lines and sub-bass that first drew our attention to the works of Drawing Virtual Gardens. Coming in the form of the 2021 release ‘~logues’ for Shimmering Moods, an album which we described as, “Massive earth-churning basslines crawl erratically through uneasy layers of mechanical interruptions, distant guitar, and gaseous noir-style trumpet. Just enough luminance creeps into the music to keep these dreamscapes from turning sour. Opaque. Unsettling. Oddly comforting.”
As for the album at hand, 22:22 is an hour that continuously intrigued Gutman. He began noticing it was a common occurrence to reference his watch at this exact hour during the night. His curiosity grew as he wondered what unexplained consciousness kept pointing him towards this time. The lore surrounding 22:22 is steeped with symbolism, reference to angels, tarot, the Kabbalah, and numerology. The general consensus points towards a positive and aware mind, in tune with the energies surrounding them: able to keep the channels open and tap into that brilliant force.
‘22:22’ is the second album of Lost Tribe Sound's 11 album series Maps to Where the Poison Grows. A patient, late hour set of timekeepers whose non-linear motion may stir up as much dust as they help to settle. Challenging only if the focus is to intently set on a prize. The spoils go to those who allow their vision to blur, lay back and float. ’22:22’ treads somewhere in the realm of Loscil in the ‘Moment Builders’ era, Mark Templeton’s intoxicating ‘Ocean Front Property,’ or the classic ‘Light Folds’ from Seaman & The Tattered Sail. It also brings to mind Lost Tribe Sound releases like ‘Air Sculptures’ by Federico Mosconi or ‘Black Box Animals’ from Luton. Not bad company to keep.
The Maps Series features new full-length albums by From the Mouth of the Sun, Skyphone, Claire Deak, mastroKristo, R.A Sanchez (Black Baptist, Pale Hearse, Tokyo Bloodworm), Lavatone, Kaya North (Caleb R.K. Williams, Eagle Stone Collective), Drawing Virtual Gardens, Civic Hall (Euan Millar-McMeeken and Craig Tattersall), and an undisclosed artist TBD. All are available on CD/DL. CDs come in reverse-side printed gatefold sleeves with a double-sided poster.
released September 22, 2023
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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog:
losttribesound.bandcamp.com
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FAVORITE AMBIENT ALBUMS OF 2023 - LOW LIGHT MIXES
"What is released in the air is pure metaphysical matter held together by a constant line of borders that support an enchanted universe of sounds capable of ascending for miles as if transforming itself into a single acoustic purity. A must!" (Mirco Salvadori) ROCKERILLA
"There is a lot to be discovered in their well-balanced instrumentation and ‘non-linear motion" - AMBIENT BLOG
"Haunting guitars stretched and looped across time melded with distant clicks, scratches, and scrapes lend a supernatural quality to these tracks, which nicely coincides with the conceptual themes of ethereal energies and forces existing around us." - PERFECT CIRCUIT
"This is the late-night tonic for the weary minds, symbolic rites, and the disturbed subconscious." - HEADPHONE COMMUTE
"On the one hand you are taken out of reality, but you are also gently confronted with the darker sides of existence." - (Jan Willem Broek) DE SUBJECTIVISTEN
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Total Run Time: 35:41 minutes
Written, recorded and mixed by David Gutman during 2022
Synth samples by Ariel Gutman
Trombone by Francois Lefebvre
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork by David Gutman
Layout and design by R. Keane
© Lost Tribe Sound LLC / David Gutman
℗ Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)
RELEASE SCHEDULE:
July 21st - Be aware there is a goat hidden in the trees
Aug. 15th - Une chateau de sable s'agrandit... (Video Premiere)
Sept. 5th - La goute d'eau sur le mirroire
Sept. 22nd - Full Album Release
