{"title":"The Myrrors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Myrrors is an experimental folk-rock band originally founded by Nik Rayne, Grant Beyschau, and Claira Safi in 2007. Hailing from the Arizona desert, they play what they describe as \"Sonoran trance music,\" a combination of droning psychedelic rock, classical minimalism, and international music forms. The group has undergone numerous lineup changes over the course of their existence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"exploded-view-2","title":"Exploded View","description":"\u003cp\u003eCardinal Fuzz and Centripetal Force Records are pleased to present to you – The Myrrors – At Exploded View (Tucson, Arizona). This spellbinding recording captures The Myrrors, advocates \/ defenders of DIY\/counter culture at their finest and most transcendental. Exploded Sound is a chemical reaction between two basic elements: rock'n'roll and the Avant Garde. Inspired by Terry Riley’s repetitive, long-form minimalism, the group’s extended, open-ended playing carries the spirit of Riley’s “all-night flights”, here The Myrrors sound just as expansive, indeterminant, and mind-blowing - confident enough not to force epiphanies and trusting that euphoria will grow. The communal nature of the playing also recalls Father Yod’s primitive psych-rock pioneers YaHoWha 13. The latter’s delirious 3am trips share an aura with The Myrrors in the playing of raw, ritualistic and seemingly-possessed musicians caught in the flow of the moment they are creating. One crucial difference between Myrrors and YaHoWha 13, is their leaderless nature. With no particular member in charge, their music has a refreshing lack of ego; it feels like the only thing steering the ship is the momentum created by playing together, as all the sounds created coalesce into a single moment where linear time dissolves into the electrified bliss of the band’s excursions into psychedelic minimalism. With Exploded Sound you get to hear The Myrrors stripped down minimalism and repetition unite and fuse into the most deadly musical combination of guitars, bass drums\/percussion and viola. \"With this incantatory live recording, Myrrors create a sound that feels drawn out of the soil. Drone calls, avant-squall, swells of devotional psychedelia—whatever you want to call this music, it's entrancing and spiritually voluminous, rising and falling in majestic arcs, soundtracking an imaginary Herzog documentary playing exclusively in your mind's eye.\" —Jason P. Woodbury\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cardinal Fuzz","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50402616672587,"sku":"2188905","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage_71_b68e0862_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726552658"},{"product_id":"invocaciones-singles-and-strays-2014-2016","title":"Invocaciones : Singles and Strays (2014 - 2016)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records present \u003ci\u003eInvocaciones : Singles and Strays (2014 - 2016)\u003c\/i\u003e - a dip into the archives with these shaman from Tucson, Arizona. \u003ci\u003eInvocaciones\u003c\/i\u003e is a compilation of tracks previously available via the mediums of splits \/ lathes \/ cassettes and digital download, now all gathered together on this release with the added bonus of an extra 3 minutes added to a now extended ‘Eyes Of Copper’ and ‘Semillas Sembrades’ no longer split over two sides of a 7”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Over five tracks presented on ‘Invocaciones’ The Myrrors lose themselves in transcendental improvisation, from the opening track ‘Eyes Of Copper’ to ‘Invocación Por Un Verdadero Plan De Lucha Organizado Desde Abajo’ where The Myrrors are in free flowing circular raga mode. It’s a state of playing that takes take the listener into a deeply shamanistic ecstatic state that is both spellbinding and enrapturing, were you are treated to the music that rivals the free flowing communal progg freakdom of late 60’s \/ early 70s Germany \/ Scandinavia but transported to the Arabian desert. Here a cacophony of flute and whistles, viola, tape loops, alto saxophone, bulbul tarang and guitars churn and cavort through ebbing cosmic shimmer and ecstatic pulsing ritualistic Eastern drones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Try imagining The Velvet Underground, The Taj Mahal Travellers and Parson Sound transported to the Arabian desert. It is ecstatic and otherworldly as you open up your mind and let everything come through – The Myrrors have found the keys to the kingdom of heaven.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cardinal Fuzz","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50483594232139,"sku":"1125194","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c39d6cf5-4870-4b19-8c65-e69e31dbb07a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727569994"},{"product_id":"land-back","title":"Land Back","description":"\u003cp class=\"text-600\"\u003eFollowing a period of relative quiet, cult \"Sonoran drone rock\" ensemble The Myrrors returns with their latest aural broadside. Founding members N.R. Safi (Naujawanan Baidar) and Grant Beyschau (Tambourinen, Pirámides) reunited with viola player Miguel Urbina in their desert hometown in late 2021 for an intensive week of improvisation, conversation, and recording, yielding the material for what should have been the immediate follow-up to their panoramic 2018 album \u003cem\u003eBorderlands\u003c\/em\u003e. Four years of global tumult later, we can finally hear the results - and (tragically) the material seems even more relevant today. Charging out of the gates with the aptly named \"Breakthrough\" and careening sharply into the anti-colonial cry of \"Land Back,\" it is clear that The Myrrors have once again whittled new forms into the raw material of their now-recognizable sound. The uncontrollable sparks only hinted at occasionally on previous albums has now emerged like a roaring wildfire, further highlighting the revolutionary politics that have always undergirded the band's art. Similarly, the cassette saturated grit heard across Safi and Beyschau's most recent ventures has clearly had an influence here, as the spectrality of previous productions has been hardened into something much more grounded and immediate. None of this is to say that the familiar influences of minimalism, spiritual jazz, and raga that underscored The Myrrors' previous work has been done away with. In fact, this new record sees the group honing even more deeply into these territories, especially through a renewed emphasis on Beyschau's saxophone kaleidoscopically transformed here through the manipulation of a vintage analogue tape delay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"text-600\"\u003eUsing Terry Riley's famed \"time lag accumulator\" technique, the band constructs a whirling tapestry of unpredictable sonic colors in which his single instrument can often ring out like a full ensemble in itself. In \"Bakú a Bandung\" all these disparate elements come together in a powerful, trance-like homage to the undying spirit of anti-imperialist resistance in the global peripheries. The pulsating throb of the bass and the wild swirl of instruments perhaps call to mind lines from the Afghan poet Rumi when he wrote in the Masnavi, Dance, when you're broken open Dance, if you've torn the bandage off Dance in the middle of the fighting Dance in your blood Dance when you're perfectly free But of course, as The Myrrors are quick to remind us in the title track, No one is free until we're all free Land Back arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cardinal Fuzz","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53140435665227,"sku":"R2399-3776","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/getImage.php_faba5087-b230-4c8c-9854-d445ab256846.jpg?v=1754673589"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_c332ad39_thumbnail_4096_3c00de72-652c-4a93-8951-c5861d546546.jpg?v=1726552641","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/the-myrrors.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}