Uncannily Coil-esque meditation aid from Cera Khin & Ossia, reprising their duo heard on the sold-out Blue Baboon [JSMË, 2016] mixtape, but this time with a dangerously heavy-lidded appeal perhaps best received during chemsex come-downs or particularly tedious, packed-out commutes for optimal effect.
The first product of Cera Khin and Ossia’s Lazy Tapes, Guided Meditation is just that: a suite of sounds for the moments after your head has (or wants to) hit the pillow; meshing slopped ’n screwed vocals in an Alvin Lucier-meets-DJ Screw style on a stygian descent into the sandman’s hands, which just happen to be plastered in rubble and fragments of metal as the trip becomes denser and slips your lucid dream past possible hyping jerk triggers to a sort of burial at sea by the time it finishes.
Where the collaboration ends, Cera Khin picks up with her first solo material. On Frogs In My Bed she commits a bleak tract of echoic croaks and wide-open spatial dimensions recorded on a trip to Tunisia, proving a real patience and sleight of hand when it comes to dream-state atmospheres. Ants Don’t Have Lungs follows with a stranger blush of anaesthetised, chromatic convolution collaged from field recordings into a steeply hallucinogenic finale with an effect that Coil would surely have approved of.
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Literally sickening record and wonderful message and cause and cant wait for more collaborative projects like this, worth whatever dollar you have.
Esto si valio la pena! gracialabendicida
An introspective record that fuses post-rock, shoegaze and ambient synth patches into a seamless array of shimmering soundscapes. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 26, 2023