{"title":"The Transcendence Orchestra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Transcendence Orchestra is an experimental music project that pushes the boundaries of sound and perception. Comprised of *Anthony Child* (aka Surgeon) and *Daniel Bean*, this duo creates immersive sonic landscapes that transport listeners to otherworldly realms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by artists such as *Lawrence English*, *Éliane Radigue*, and *Richard Skelton*, The Transcendence Orchestra combines elements of ambient, drone, and electronic music to create a unique and captivating listening experience. Their compositions are characterized by deep, resonant tones, intricate textures, and a sense of transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith their mesmerizing live performances, The Transcendence Orchestra has gained a dedicated following in the experimental music scene. Their collaborations with artists like *Drew McDowall* and *Pauline Oliveros* have further expanded their sonic palette, resulting in truly boundary-pushing works of art.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"modern-methods-for-ancient-rituals","title":"Modern Methods for Ancient Rituals","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title of the debut LP from The Transcendence Orchestra outlines the modus operandi of this pairing of Anthony Child and Daniel Bean. Recorded in a remote English rural setting over a period of 24 hours this is an apt location for a recording that eschews time and space in favour of methodological displacement and deep psychological navigation. Modern Methods For Ancient Rituals is an experiment in acoustic and synthetic symbiosis which is deeply influenced by the atmosphere and acoustics of the rural location of Cats Abbey resulting in a set of recordings which can aid to the transformation of consciousness. Deploying a range of ancient and modern instruments and effects including Buchla Music Easel, harmonium, shruti box, bass guitar, hurdy gurdy, Electro Harmonix 45000, Strymon Blue Sky and Roland RE 101 Space Echo among others, Child and Bean conjure an audio experience which encapsulates elements of drone, trance, pulse, rhythm and melody subtly shifting all into a psychologically penetrating experience beyond the aesthetic and into the comforting unknown. Written and recorded at Cats Abbey in November 2016 by Anthony Child and Daniel Bean. Anthony and Daniel played the Buchla Music Easel, harmonium, shruti box, bass guitar, hurdy gurdy, symphonie, glockenspiel, hand bell, Electro Harmonix 45000, Strymon Blue Sky, Strymon DIG, and Roland RE 101 Space Echo. 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Working intensively to capture its echoes, they coaxed it to appear in pipes and strings, directed it through resonant circuits and shepherded it round the room with beaters, horns and rattles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving returned home with the recordings, a purpose began to emerge. Through a process of extensive reconfiguration and testing it became clear that the love contained within could transform perception. Under the right circumstances, and accompanied by appropriate technology, it could serve as a map for navigating beginnings and endings. Like some distant mesmerising chant or a psychedelic folk song, it could connect us and reassure us that we can pass through the boundaries and survive. Perhaps not intact but at least whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is that map, love soaked diligently into its lines, ready to guide those at a loss or reassure those willing to explore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50466143502667,"sku":"1095482","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/320f6806-d6c1-41cf-93b6-fd09b82e34be_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727306726"},{"product_id":"all-skies-have-sounded","title":"All Skies Have Sounded","description":"\u003cp\u003eGonzen, uminari or retumbos. Perhaps you've heard these sounds? They're known to occur all over the world and, as one might expect, humans have strained to offer various explanations for these unsettling emissions that materialise unbidden from the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe like to say that we've understood what's happening so that we can move on. Tidy up the loose ends and don't scare the horses. Nothing wrong with that in good measure, but there's something to be said for the Haudenosaunee peoples' explanation. They pointed out that the Great Spirit hasn't finished their work of shaping the earth and is making a fair bit of noise while they're at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you accept that many questions never truly get answered, in fact can or should never truly be answered, you may be able to tune your mind to this collection of lingering sonic detonations. If you accept that the work is ongoing, our labours seldom done, that there's not much point talking about the end of anything, you may be ready to join us. 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Arcing from classic kosmische to new age ambient and more spiky modular steez, the duo unfurl layers of atmosphere and immersive diversions through an hour-long session that might just be their most impressive work to date - recommended listening if yr into anything from classic Roedelius\/Cluster to Pete Namlook, Alessandro Cortini or even the spectralism of Iancu Dumitrescu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow that the longform ambient\/modular template has been crushed under the weight of its own stiffness, it’s perhaps harder than ever to add anything new to the Kosmische songbook. And while ‘Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents’ certainly treads around familiar motifs, The Transcendence Orchestra manage to poke the blueprint with enough force to jolt us from our apathy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeployed over an hour-long, 10-track session that plays like a continuous fever-dream, there’s a gnarly psychedelia to proceedings that suggests the duo have moved away from pastiche and into something altogether more divergent. It starts with growling bass notes on the opening ‘The sleep of reason’ before submerging into a very FAX\/Namlook-esque New Age mode on ‘Leave it Terry, it’s not worth it!’, and before long’ 170 is greater than 260’ starts to glitch the matrix with cascading Terry Riley-ish arpeggios woven into gloriously disjointed sounds from the room, wafts of conversations that may or may not have anything to do with the things at hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The hills are alive’ taps into the sound of Yoshi Wada’s atonal bagpipes before melting into a blissed state, while the brass and woodwind flares of ‘An ancient city and several nuclear explosions’ reminds us of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s gorgeous ‘Virðulegu Forsetar’ or perhaps even Gavin Bryars’ totemic ‘The Sinking Of The Titanic’ with its quietly dejected mysticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo, an ambient travelog of sorts that’s well aware of its forbears, but one executed with enough of a rogue spirit to wake us from, rather than send us to, a deep slumber. 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