textura

Albums
Alejandro & Aeron
Balustrade Ensemble
Jeremy Bible
F.S. Blumm
Cadence Weapon
Cataclyst
Cepia
Chloé
Cooler
Disinterested
edIT
Erik Enocksson
For Barry Ray
Ernest Gonzales
Grand National
Hakobune
Halou
Frode Haltli
Arve Henriksen
Ielasi & Ratti
Jumpel
Lawrence
Lickets
Manual
Melodium
Mono
My Fun
Marissa Nadler
Prints
Rekalix
Remote_ vs Ontayso
Will Saul
Sixtoo
Small Sails
Songs Of Green Pheasant
Christian Wallumrød
White Rainbow
Xeltrei
Yndi Halda

Compilations / Mixes
Paolo Mojo
Ewan Pearson
VA: 5 Years Get Physical
VA: Monza Vol. 2
VA: U-cover mix 01 [a]
VA: U-cover mix 02 [d]

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Ateleia
Pier Bucci
Cio D'Or
Cloudland Canyon
Curium
Laurine Frost
Dave Graham
Hakobune
The Infant Cycle
Lerosa
Lullaby Leagure
Mole Harness
Mowbray & Sullivan
Ontayso
School of Seven Bells
Science Teacher
Sleep Robot
Unwed Sailor
VA: Spies & Lies
Rick Wade

White Rainbow: Prism of Eternal Now
kranky

Album and song titles like Prism of Eternal Now, “Mystic Prism,” and “For Terry” clearly reveal the type of psychedelic universe inhabited by Adam Forkner (member of space-rock outfits Yume Bitsu and The Surface of Eceyon and co-owner of Yarnlazer, a small independent record label he operates with Honey Owens aka Valet) and the Portland, Oregon resident admittedly does list tablas, gongs, water jug, and, yes, hands, breath, and time as part of the album's sonic ingredients, but don't dismiss his White Rainbow project too quickly as some anachronistic inner space exploration that somehow slipped free of the ‘60s space-time continuum. Yes, scorched-earth guitars do wail over trippy percussion patterns and electronics during the incantatory “Pulses” and hallucinatory “Mystic Prism.” But the album also includes a pastoral, fifteen-minute drone of crystalline shimmer called “April 25 th 11:14 PM” that's worth the price of admission alone, and the album's second half nudges the White Rainbow sound closer to the present with heady space drones (“Warm Clicked Fruit,” “Guitars,” “Awakening”) and vaporous soundscaping (“Waves”). In addition, “For Terry” actually gravitates more towards No Pussyfooting than In C, as scalding, Fripp-styled guitars arc and swoop over a lurching array of Eno-like electronics and swirls. And don't think Forkner's seventy-minute kranky debut is long either, because it's practically anorexic compared to his 2006 Marriage Records box set whose five CDs and single DVD weigh in at a psychotropic 4.5 hours.

October 2007