Occulting Disk [LP]

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Deathprod, a.k.a. Helge Sten, has been deeply embedded in the Oslo music community for decades, but his brooding soundscapes and deliberate process make him seem sometimes like a phantom. Sten is a founding member of Supersilent, adding his sounds and treatments to the avant jazz leanings of that powerful collective, and he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Biosphere, and Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones. But Occulting Disk is the first new Deathprod album in 15 years; his attention to detail is next level, and the darkly powerful soundscapes arch and swell like the shifting of the Earth's tectonic plates. Raw, emotional, political and deliberate, this is ambient music with deep intention. Fans of Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Steve Reich, Autechre, Swans, and GAS will all need this record - Deathprod makes some of the most powerful experimental ambient composition of our time. His last LP, Morals and Dogma, from 2004, was listed as one of Pitchfork's top 50 ambient albums of all time. FACT calls Sten the "dark ambient master." The New York Times said "Sten loves to summon up thick, often ominous clouds of sound, gesturing at everything from avant-garde composition to black metal without ever quite revealing his hand." Occulting Disk is an anti-fascist ritual. Recorded in Oslo, Reykjavik, Berlin and Los Angeles between 2012 and 2019. Liner notes by Will Oldham. LP cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.

Tracklist:

  1. Disappearance/Reappearance
  2. Occultation 1
  3. Occultation 2
  4. Occultation 3
  5. Occultation 4
  6. Occultation 5
  7. Occultation 6
  8. Occultation 7
  9. Black Transit Of Jupiter'S Third Satellite 1
  10. Occultation 8

UPC: 7072822360016
Label: Smalltown Supersound
Release Date: 10.25.19
Format: Vinyl

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