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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Packaged in a clear plastic quad-disk case with a wraparound insert custom printed by David Tagg, and burned into four white in-house duplicated/printed 5" recordable compact discs. Contains all the same music issued on the limited 3x cassette box set, reissued here on affordable and convenient compact disc format.
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Packaged in a white dustproof audiobook style case, bearing custom matte cover stickers printed by David Tagg and black text/logo decals on the back cover and inside front, with three black cassettes (2x60-minute, 1x90-minute) hand-dubbed from a Fiio X5 onto an Alesis TapeLink deck. Contains the full and unabridged 7-track/3.5 hour album.
NOTE: These cases have been acquired by a non-traditional source, and as such, display certain marks of wear and use. Some slight rippling beneath the cover sticker may be visible. The customer assumes full understanding of this, and no refunds will be given.
Includes unlimited streaming of PPLZ SYNF
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
David Burraston returns to Psøma Psi Phi with possibly his most expansive release to date - PPLZ SYNF. A gigantic 3.5 hour work consisting of seven pieces created using an ongoing self-build (as Burraston notes) of the Serge/CGS Paperface analog synthesizer, in conjunction with a custom built modular rig. Laid to digital disk space at Burraston's Noyzelab studio in August, PPLZ SYNF is a monolith of drone synthesis that absorbs the listener into some kind of greater collective metaconsciousness. It is both an impressive exercise in longform drone music, and an immersive and hypnotic atmosphere that confounds the mind, transfiguring your surroundings from its unique and singular perspective. A monument, literally and figuratively, in the sound field, etched and erected by a master of the craft.
Given the scope and size of such a release, PPLZ SYNF has been committed to a very special, and very limited, triple-cassette set, housed in a dustproof binder. These are extremely finite and assembled by hand in every possible way, making no two copies exactly alike. The digital version available at Bandcamp consists of cuts from the first of the three tapes, while the full release is spread across two 60-minute tapes and one 90-minute tape.
NOTE: After some confusion from listeners, we'd like to make clear the fact that all NYZ/Noyzelab catalog releases at Psoma are available ONLY as abridged digital versions for name-your-price/free download, and in their full unabridged editions as physical CD-Rs. There is not an unabridged digital version of anything from NYZ at Psoma, and the physical editions do not ship with unabridged digital versions either (that is, if you do not count the digital music present on the compact discs). For listeners only interested in unabridged digital versions, we encourage you to visit noyzelab.bandcamp.com to purchase those directly from NYZ, or even better, subscribe to his Bandcamp output and just get everything.
credits
released November 14, 2017
W/P by David Burraston. Field recorded in MONO 96kHz/24bit on Zoom F8, August 2017 at Noyzelab (www.noyzelab.com). Created with Serge/CGS Paperface ongoing self build and Mutable Instruments Braids x2 custom dark face build by Finlay Shakespeare. David Burraston and the NYZ logo appear courtesy of Noyzelab. This is Psøma Psi Phi number NYZ-II, and 2nd in Burraston's private NYZ catalog. Cover design by The Analog Botanist.
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