evan caminiti “psychic mud shrine” compact disc

• frozen plains
  
• melting temple / plumes of babylon
  
• midnight's road
  
• kcalb egdol

gärden söund “black summit” long playing record

• forbidden paradise
  
• beast of burden
  
  
• hidden origin
  
• obsidian sky

barn owl “the conjurer” compact disc

• into the red horizon (5:11)
  
• across the deserts of ash (16:59)
  
• procession of golden bones (3:51)
  
• ancient of days (14:42)

root strata press release...

barn owl "the conjurer" rs-45 cd edition of 1000 the conjurer is the latest offering by bay area duo barn owl. this new long player finds evan caminiti & jon porras finally (by way of an actual recording studio) documenting something that is a bit closer to their very heavy live sets, with expanded peaks of white light distortion and enormous valleys of bottom end. each side opens with a brief funeral dirge to set the mood, a precession of bare bones drum beats and bell like guitar statements that bridge the gap to the wider open spaces of the almost side long 'across the desert of ash' and 'ancient of days''. it may seem obvious, or even a little overwrought, but it has to be said that these guys really do evoke all kinds of cinematic drama with their music. apocalyptic westerns, bleak melodramas, mother nature fever dreams, it all seems to come to mind amid the evening guitar passages, incantations, flute tones, and finally, the solo piano that emerges lost among the electric mayhem to close the album. considering the amount of terrain, the conjurer is far from being scattered or rushed sounding. the record as a whole moves at a crafted even rhythm, slowly merging from one scene of violence to the next of almost silent recovery, then back up the mountain again.

evan caminiti “west winds” long playing record

• night of the archon
  
• westward sun
  
• thunder breaks the dawn
  
• dust
  
  
• glowing sky
  
• path to the sea
  
• black desert blooming

three lobed recordings press release...

evan caminiti west winds tlr-082 release date: july 27, 2010 evan caminiti is a guitarist full of big ideas and even bigger sounds. currently known as one-half of the san francisco bay area avant droners barn owl, caminiti has spent a great deal of time the past few years playing and recording gorgeous solo explorations focused primarily on the guitar, but, when need be, accented by additional instrumentation. following several prior releases, caminiti’s abilities have been honed to the razor sharp point of his new lp, west winds. three lobed recordings is proud to present this album, caminiti’s most mature and meditative to date. west winds is a discourse on solitude and cosmic exploration set primarily to an open tuned guitar. it is a logical successor to caminiti’s strong, large(r) scale solo debut, psychic mud shrine (digitalis, 2009) and calls to mind roy montgomery, “hex”-era earth and popul vuh. the album is the result of caminiti’s six-month long focus on each song’s form and musical composition. over that span of time, caminiti assembled and came to know each song intimately, constructing a series of strong structural bases. that knowledge permitted him to record the final takes accentuated by numerous potent improvisational flourishes as heard on west winds. this long-form approach of adding chaotic, off-the-cuff elements to such long-crafted tracks is basically the opposite approach to that which is used within the context of barn owl. through its contemplative tone, west winds is the perfect soundtrack to your next night alone in the literal or figurative desert. the album opens with the bold and transcendent “night of the archon.” caminiti coaxes a sustained wash of shimmering tones from his guitar that conjure the impression of heat illusions appearing just over the horizon on a long, straight, and otherwise abandoned road in the dead heat of summer. hazy and dreamlike, “night…” magically helps the listener lose track of time and space, and its close to nine-minute running time seems like mere moments slipping through the hourglass. once fully established, this hypnotic tone and mood is so pervasive throughout west winds - from the piano accents that punctuate “westward sun” to the desolate and lonely echoes of “dust” – that the listener certainly does not have to listen too hard to tell that caminiti has generated a full and complete thematic exploration that is undoubtedly cut from whole cloth. “black desert blooming” soundly closes the album in a din of bowed guitar that slowly gives way to sparse, understated notes. evan caminiti’s west winds is a bold and cohesive statement from a young artist already capable of recording greatness.