Rides Eternal by Strange Mountain II

CASSETTES AVAILABLE HERE: geologyrecords.com

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When Strange Mountain approached a very young Geology with his Inhibitions album back in 2014 I was honored to have a hand in releasing something so gorgeous and nuanced. This is the same artist… but a huge leap sideways. There are hints of old SM all over here, but this is an artist taking a pause, looking in a new direction and nailing it.

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LOST IN A SEA OF SOUND
http://lostseasound.blogspot.com/2018/07/strange-mountain-ii-rides-eternal.html

Rides Eternal breathes cosmic particles, transforming tiny scattered matter into majestic patterns. These sounds have a hallowed quality, a symphony created over long increments of time in cross galactic travel. Biological life in stasis, an A.I. brain working within the emptiness, using infinite calculations to compose beauty. This music rest just beyond human understanding. Lengthy fanfare for processions emanating from a galaxies core. A preface to our own primordial existence and an adieu to our eventual extinction.

Strange Mountain is Marcel Thee from Jakarta, Indonesia. A force in prismatic ambient sounds, and all music in general. This is the second release on Geology Records, the first titled Inhibitions made available back in 2014. Marcel Thee has music on many well respected labels as Strange Mountain and multiple projects with other artists. This cassette, Rides Eternal is a lengthy ten track composition. Completely filled with fuel for cognitive churning. A palate with swathes of sounds forming pathways for any thought. Calming qualities reside throughout making Rides Eternal a very fluid experience. Amazingly the atmosphere is in constant flux, like being witness to the infinite motions of planets passing past their suns or the pull of from event horizon gravitational boundaries. Tracks like "Respect Your Elders (Apocalypse Whatever)" cycle from futuristic rock opera to drifting solitude. The use of ancient analog organ sounds adds weight and stability, "Borrowed Rests, Afterwards" is a good example. The direction of these songs all move forward together, but the individual complexity within each track is like a sonic circuit board of sound. Giving a go at describing Strange Mountain II's Rides Eternal is a difficult task. This is always good.

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credits
released April 16, 2018

Written and Recorded 2016 by Marcel Thee.

Photography by NASA and Eric Krueger.
Art Direction and Layout by Eric Krueger.

Tracklist

1.	Dude, Tearsss	2:37

2.	Respect Your Elders (Apocalypse Whatever)	3:48

3.	Further and Furthest From The Moon	3:26

4.	Total Chinese (Whose Eyes Do See)	2:07

5.	I Want You To Be Everything That Is You	5:45

6.	I. New Horror II. Someone Else's Sun	2:12

7.	Borrowed Rest, Afterwards	5:44

8.	Not Alone Never Alone	6:11

9.	Keep a Hold of My Mind	5:18

10.	Kingliness Without	4:04

Credits

released June 5, 2018

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