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Nadja

Under The Jaguar Sun

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Packaged in a full color custom made book bound 10 panel sleeve. A double vinyl version, "Chalchiuhtlicue" will also be issued with three mixes by Nadja and one mix by Edward Ka-Spel from the 2xCD version. That's right kids! Yes you can mix your own Nadja album! “Night and day, you are the one. Only you beneath the moon or under the Jaguar Sun…” Now you’re messing with a sun of a bitch. Let’s count backwards. The second disc in this set “Quetzalcoatl” diffuses into the air an alien vocabulary of electronicesque gargles and hums. A soundtrack made from the residue left after a subterranean dowsing for the echoes of collapsing stars. These disembodied post-transmissions form up in a Minerva’s Web of sunken Titanic ghosts, slow moaning as from distant caverns.


Disc one of the set, “Tezcatlipoca” is the actual collapsing of stars. Or, perhaps the exploding majesty of every day’s new sun being reborn, as it once again defeats those Xibilba’s and rises to arc through its dominion again. This monstrous soul goes from grumbling angrily to mowing the heavens. Parts even cross into early Swans territory with aggressively fractured pacing. But all roads lead to the final track which is an epic length doom metal anthem of sweating proportions. Wave after wave of crushing fuzz slowly pummel speakers into diamonds and rust. A relentless solar rotorvating blasterpiece. Which brings us to part 3 of this 2 CD set. Both CD’s have been composed to also be played simultaneously, in a much more useable fashion than the Zaireekas of the world. So, if “Tezcatlipoca” is overground and “Quetzalcoatl” is underground (or, more likely, the reverse) their combination must be all things….and no things. Maybe the sound of the end of things. The resultant juxtaposition is a colossal celestial being smiling down on all he tramples. LABEL PRESS

Details
Cat. number: MT175A
Year: 2009

Format

Music & words written & recorded July-August 2008 in Toronto

Release notes

Music & words written & recorded July-August 2008 in Toronto, except: strings recorded at Commonwealth Studios & various drones recorded at B&N's. Released in a 10-panel custom-designed case with full color printed innersleeves. It is to be played individually or played/mixed together. Inside Panel: © Ah Syd Music / SOCAN 2009 Back Panel: Beta-lactam Ring Records blrrecords.com ©℗ 2009 mt175a mfg.hong kong Disc 1 Sleeve: Beta-lactam Ring Records blrrecords.com ©℗ 2009 mt175a1 mfg.hong kong…

Tracklist
Disc 1: Tezcatlipoca (Darkness)
1-1SUN1jaguar9:24
1-2SUN2windstorm14:42
1-3SUN3fieryrain6:06
1-4SUN4flood14:22
1-5SUN5earthquake15:26
Disc 2: Quetzalcoatl (Wind)
2-1Ocelotonatiuh9:24
2-2Ehecatonatiuh14:42
2-3Quiuhtonatiuh6:06
2-4Atonatiuh14:22
2-5Nahui-ollin15:25
Credits
Aidan
Artwork, Guitar, Vocals, Drum Machine [Drums/machines], Sitar, Piano, Glockenspiel, Singing Bowls [Singing Bowl], Kalimba
Leah Buckareff
Bass, Vocals, Violin
Nick Storring
Cello
Chris
Design, Layout
Naomi Hocura
Harmonium, Bass
Nadja
Music By, Words By, Recorded By [Music & Words]
Jonathan Demers
Recorded By [Strings]
Brandon Hocura
Sitar, Electronics, Drums, Acoustic Guitar
Mika Posen
Violin