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kranky (usa) #krank 073 cd

growing “the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light” compact disc

  • onement
  • anaheim ii
  • epochal reminiscence
  • primitive associations  / great mass above
the first growing album was certainly the sleeper hit of the 2003 kranky batch... the perfect synergy of latter-day doom-metal stylings with the ambient soundworld of the post-shoegazer generation of groups (mid-period too pure... seefeel specifically). something about the melancholy of their hometown of portland, or seeped through in droves and we were all grateful for their unique vision of the apocalypse, as retold not in explosions and the wrath of god but in detuned octave-divided guitars and filtered field recordings of birdsong. a unique statement...

already, here, we have album #2. again, recorded with rex from jessamine, and again the sort of thing where you don’t notice the bruises until long after they’ve slowly been inflicted.
kranky press release...
artist: growing
title: the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light
catalog #: krank073
formats available: cd
release date: oct. 18, 2004

recorded by the band in olympia, wa from 2003 to early 2004 and mixed with rex ritter (jessamine, fontanelle and sunn) at magnetic park in portland, or in march and april 2004, the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light takes growing's expansive palette, blurring and disguising instrumental points of origin to a point where sheer sound defines itself with authority. now a duo with kevin doria on bass and guitar and joe denardo on guitar, growing have pushed into the manipulation of feedback, hiss and static; wringing out waves of delay from their amps while retaining an earthbound mastery of crushing riffage. these grainy textures contrast with a clean, pulsing lushness that carries traces of bird song and touch on natural environs and the passing of time.

since the release of the sky's run into the sea in august 2003, growing have played a select number of shows, including the u.k. version of all tomorrows parties (at the invitation of mogwai). a number of older tape releases from the band are being reissued and the italian heroine label put out a split ep growing recorded with m. evan burden of get hustle.

in july 2004 the band took to the road for a tour of north america beginning with a performance at the los angeles museum of contemporary art. european touring is planned for the fall of 2004 along with some more visits across america. the track "anaheim ii" was recorded for an abortive split release with pelican. the title of this album is taken from an 1893 essay by bainbridge bishop concerning the relationships between color and sound. the essay was subtitled "a plea for a new science." bishop invented the color organ in 1877, a musical device capable of playing both sound and corresponding light together or separately.

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kranky (usa) #krank 060 cd

growing “the sky’s run into the sea” compact disc

  • a painting
  • tepsihe (all music is folk music)
  • cutting, opening, swimming
  • southern rites
  • pavement rich in gold
it was bound to occur eventually... the sprawling doom-metal sound-world (as typified by practitioners like sunn o))) and earth) creaking over into the kranky-lineage cloud-chamber universe.

here we have the fruits of a band raised on sleep’s “dopesmoker”

the mid-period too pure catalogue (seefeel, etc...). epics abound.,,
kranky press release...
artist: growing
title: the sky's run into the sea
catalog #: krank060
formats available: cd / dlp
release date: aug. 25, 2003

growing is a trio based in olympia, wa. the sky's run into the sea is their debut album and is aptly named; like the horizon line it delineates a place where elemental forces collide and overlap.

growing recorded and mixed the album in their home town.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 065 lp

growing “all the way” long playing record

  • green flag (6:16)
  • wrong ride (6:13)
  • rave pie only (6:22)

  • innit (6:39)
  • lens around (5:30)
  • reconstruction (5:57)
september 2008 release ; growing’s debut full-length for the social registry ...

picking up where “lateral” trailed off, this ekes further dimensions still out of their twin-guitar array ; some of the gating-oriented tones remind me of “e2-e4” - others “baba o’riley” ... and yes, as the promo-texts not-so-subtly imply, there’s even a good bit of the ‘ol 4/4 thump ; as to get growing off the big, amplifier-worshipping stages they trounced whilst opening for boris and into the holy/decrepit brooklyn night-club backwaters / back rooms where, apparently, the “magic” happens (that’s probably taking it a little too far ; i think they’re going more for the kind of soporific low-pass thump of wolfgang voigt’s gas project than anything so dance-floor ready) ...

always love a new set from these guys ; frankly i’m glad that they’re trying out new things ... a couple of the more minimalism-inspired pieces (listen to the sound-sample for perhaps my favorite cut of the album) are amongst the best things they’ve done, and the amp-hum laden / practice-room fidelity contributes to a certain intimate charm ... not sure if this one is going to win over a new fan-set or not, but lifers will find much to rejoice over ...
the social registry press release...

growing
all the way
the social registry tsr065

all the way, the debut full-length from growing on the social registry, concludes an epic trip. through six tracks kevin doria and joe denardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, color wheel. if we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you’ll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. recorded by barry london at his ocropolis studio during the 2007-08 winter, all the way sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet.

opener “green flag” sets the record’s tone. instead of keeping the form free, a crunchy guitar texture oscillates through a drum machine, setting a distinct and danceable rhythm that forms the foundation for tone bubbles to peel off the edges of your speakers. the next track, “wrong ride,” might remind the listener of a never-ending roller coaster ascent – mixing subtle dub elements with interweaving sound sculptures reminiscent of the field. “lens around” continues to touch on abstract, whip-like dance rhythms in a refreshing organic context as the propulsive low-end mixes with a watery, melodic lead. “rave pie only” takes the band’s percussive exploration to its extreme – sounding akin to total life (solo project of kevin doria). the track throbs with a four-to-the-floor pulse that could conceivably stun listeners with how far the band has come from their fluid beginnings.

in a year with the social registry, the band has released a killer seven-inch single and the mini-album lateral – all while fuzzing-out faces across europe with japanese noise-kings, boris. all the way is the perfect culmination of this journey. it blows records of its ilk out of the water, and shows just how lazy and dogmatic the clones of bands like growing have become.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 065 cd

growing “all the way” compact disc

  • green flag (6:16)
  • wrong ride (6:13)
  • rave pie only (6:22)
  • innit (6:39)
  • lens around (5:30)
  • reconstruction (5:57)
september 2008 release ; growing’s debut full-length for the social registry ...

picking up where “lateral” trailed off, this ekes further dimensions still out of their twin-guitar array ; some of the gating-oriented tones remind me of “e2-e4” - others “baba o’riley” ... and yes, as the promo-texts not-so-subtly imply, there’s even a good bit of the ‘ol 4/4 thump ; as to get growing off the big, amplifier-worshipping stages they trounced whilst opening for boris and into the holy/decrepit brooklyn night-club backwaters / back rooms where, apparently, the “magic” happens (that’s probably taking it a little too far ; i think they’re going more for the kind of soporific low-pass thump of wolfgang voigt’s gas project than anything so dance-floor ready) ...

always love a new set from these guys ; frankly i’m glad that they’re trying out new things ... a couple of the more minimalism-inspired pieces (listen to the sound-sample for perhaps my favorite cut of the album) are amongst the best things they’ve done, and the amp-hum laden / practice-room fidelity contributes to a certain intimate charm ... not sure if this one is going to win over a new fan-set or not, but lifers will find much to rejoice over ...
the social registry press release...
growing
all the way
the social registry tsr065

all the way, the debut full-length from growing on the social registry, concludes an epic trip. through six tracks kevin doria and joe denardo complete the conceptual arc initiated on their 2006 album, color wheel. if we still bought into genres, we would say that this record finally achieves a perfect balance of noise and pop, yet what we can say is that you’ll potentially hum melodies long after your headphones are out. recorded by barry london at his ocropolis studio during the 2007-08 winter, all the way sounds like some sort of frozen urban chaos taking place at a superclub on another planet.

opener “green flag” sets the record’s tone. instead of keeping the form free, a crunchy guitar texture oscillates through a drum machine, setting a distinct and danceable rhythm that forms the foundation for tone bubbles to peel off the edges of your speakers. the next track, “wrong ride,” might remind the listener of a never-ending roller coaster ascent – mixing subtle dub elements with interweaving sound sculptures reminiscent of the field. “lens around” continues to touch on abstract, whip-like dance rhythms in a refreshing organic context as the propulsive low-end mixes with a watery, melodic lead. “rave pie only” takes the band’s percussive exploration to its extreme – sounding akin to total life (solo project of kevin doria). the track throbs with a four-to-the-floor pulse that could conceivably stun listeners with how far the band has come from their fluid beginnings.

in a year with the social registry, the band has released a killer seven-inch single and the mini-album lateral – all while fuzzing-out faces across europe with japanese noise-kings, boris. all the way is the perfect culmination of this journey. it blows records of its ilk out of the water, and shows just how lazy and dogmatic the clones of bands like growing have become.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 064 lp

growing “lateral” twelve inch single record

  • swell
  • first contact

  • lateral
  • after glow
february 2008 release ; a new ep/mini-album from growing on their new home the social registry (these guys seem to switch labels an awful lot...) - four tracks of their special blend of twin-guitar attack & simple chordal void-shapes as run through like every imaginable pedal in existence ...

on first listen i’m going to say that this isn’t their strongest work (the omnipresent gating-fx kind of get on my nerves) but there are some nice tonal beds & hazy color-voids buried deep w/in the 9-volt ground-hum / amp-bias mazes they’ve been building for the last few years ...
the social registry press release...
growing
lateral

catalog number: tsr064
release date: february 19th, 2008
format: cd / lp

hot on the heels of their recent release for our 7-inch series, the social club, we are extremely pleased to present growing’s inaugural record with the social registry. lateral finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. the textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within growing’s dense aural fog.

lateral begins with ‘swell,’ a new mission statement for the band’s ever-evolving journey to craft the perfect drone. opening fuzz continues on the trajectory of ‘lightfoot,’ the album closer off vision swim, creating a sense of progression in growing’s work without seeming overtly nostalgic. the band slowly swells to extreme heights and then phase shifts into another galaxy. ‘first contact’ quiets the mood, demonstrating a preoccupation with rhythmic noise in the midst of more spaced-out, playful guitar melodies. from here, growing progress to ‘lateral’ which meshes the fuzzed out freeform and restrained horizontal composition qualities of the first two tracks. like a brooklyn response to the kompakt ambient series, textural rhythm and washes of atmospheric sound merge for the perfect pre-bed cocktail. finally, the album concludes with ‘after glow’ another woozy alien soundtrack that’s simultaneously relaxing and jarring in its beauty, creating a thorough trance through careful repetition. one chord from growing’s arsenal creates a mindblowing springboard to the stars and makes us think: if eno made music for airports, growing make music for spacestations.

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the social registry (usa) #tsr 064 cd

growing “lateral” compact disc single

  • swell
  • first contact
  • lateral
  • after glow
cd version ; slightly less expensive ...
the social registry press release...
growing
lateral

catalog number: tsr064
release date: february 19th, 2008
format: cd / lp

hot on the heels of their recent release for our 7-inch series, the social club, we are extremely pleased to present growing’s inaugural record with the social registry. lateral finds the band reflecting on their past two (may we add highly underrated) albums while gazing to the future with newfound rhythmic motifs and otherworldly heights to their sound sculptures. the textures are warm and inviting, tempting the listener to focus on stunning minimalist changes within growing’s dense aural fog.

lateral begins with ‘swell,’ a new mission statement for the band’s ever-evolving journey to craft the perfect drone. opening fuzz continues on the trajectory of ‘lightfoot,’ the album closer off vision swim, creating a sense of progression in growing’s work without seeming overtly nostalgic. the band slowly swells to extreme heights and then phase shifts into another galaxy. ‘first contact’ quiets the mood, demonstrating a preoccupation with rhythmic noise in the midst of more spaced-out, playful guitar melodies. from here, growing progress to ‘lateral’ which meshes the fuzzed out freeform and restrained horizontal composition qualities of the first two tracks. like a brooklyn response to the kompakt ambient series, textural rhythm and washes of atmospheric sound merge for the perfect pre-bed cocktail. finally, the album concludes with ‘after glow’ another woozy alien soundtrack that’s simultaneously relaxing and jarring in its beauty, creating a thorough trance through careful repetition. one chord from growing’s arsenal creates a mindblowing springboard to the stars and makes us think: if eno made music for airports, growing make music for spacestations.

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kranky (usa) #krank 077 cd

“kompilation” double compact disc set

  • stars of the lid - even if you're never awake (version) (8:18)
  • keith fullerton whitman - stereo music for serge modular synthesizer (excerpt) (5:43)
  • pan•american - what do they dream? (9:09)
  • autistic daughters - the glasshouse and the gift-horse (6:33)
  • christina carter - silhouette (7:20)
  • greg davis - campestral (textured) (5:27)
  • growing - primitive associations / great mass above (12:36)
  • dead texan, the - when i see scissors i can't help but think of you (4:06)
  • tom carter - monument ii (edit) (7:40)
  • loscil - sickbay (6:11)

  • charalambides - joy shapes (10:59)
  • brent gutzeit - piano motor skills #2 (edit) (8:52)
  • strategy (3) - drumsolo's delight (5:31)
  • pan•american - inside elevation (5:07)
  • keith fullerton whitman - schnee (7:12)
  • clear horizon - for days (7:16)
  • out hud - dad, there's a little thing called too much information (7:30)
  • fontanelle - monday morning (7:15)
  • jessica bailiff - swallowed (4:02)
  • christmas decorations - build a house (3:30)
  • stars of the lid - requiem for dying mothers, part 2 (7:38)
you’ve come a long way, baby...

2004-2005 roster-spanning double-cd overview from by far the most consistently appealing american record label since vanguard (ok... maybe finnadar)... yes, the price is correct, this is a double disc priced at $4.81. no reason to sleep on this one (at least until after you’ve acquired a copy and are all set for appreciation in your favorite chair/isolation tank).

i’ve got two pieces on here, one is the “psych” song from “antithesis”, the other is a rough version of a piece that will appear in a mildly transfigured state on “multiples”. plus you get an alternate version of one of greg’s “somnia” pieces, a brand-spanking new stars of the lid epic, and a smattering of jams from the last 10-odd kranky releases.

there’s never been a better time for the sort of horizontal-application sound-research that the kranky-label excels in...
kranky press release...
artist: various
title: kompilation
catalog #: krank077
formats available: 2xcd
release date: nov. 1, 2004

we'll provide the context — two compact discs filled with twenty one tracks. over 148 minutes of music. brand new music from pan•american. a preview of forthcoming albums from stars of the lid and keith fullerton whitman. an exclusive mix of an album track by greg davis. all priced cheap at less than the cost of a cd ep.

it's been years since there's been a kranky sampler (and that one came out in europe only) so it's time to show what we've been up to for the last few years. way back when compilations like pillows and prayers and wanna buy a bridge? inspired us to check out tons of bands. hopefully kompilation can perform the same function for today's fans.

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