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This album damn near left me speechless. A master class in ambient acoustic folk drone. It took me places I forgot existed...places I once loved. It made me feel things I haven't felt for many years. This is one intense ride...
Ryan Marshall
like sitting and taking in the smokey air on the beach during wintertime, wandering back barely in the dark; Jakobโs vocals are like xxxtra thick molasses here, dripping and drifting down from one exquisitely preserved nocturnal ritual to the next. an album thatโs much like an all-encompassing dense liquid in constant search of a new temporary body. gorgeous stuff!
Brendan Richter
Lovely album by Jakob. Give this a listen if you like chopped and screwed, keyboards, or some dark yet beautiful jawn.
Favorite track: Slow Motion Summer.
Pro duplicated on white cassettes with full color 4 panel foldout J card insert. Released by Stoned to Death and imported from Czechia. Edition of 120, only 24 copies available in US. Duplicated by Headless Tapes in Prague.
Includes unlimited streaming of Slow Motion Summer
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 7 days
$10USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Limited to 100 copies. Wisteria colored 12" vinyl LP with full color jacket and black inner sleeve.
Includes unlimited streaming of Slow Motion Summer
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 4 days
edition of 100
$20USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Edition of 20. Wisteria colored 12" vinyl LP, white jacket with double sided paste-on artwork, unique to this edition, front cover stamped with Jakob's blood. Comes with a single cicada husk, gathered by hand from tombstones in a Philadelphia cemetery. Includes 8.5 x 11 Possession insert, stamped with Jakob's blood, 11 x 17 double sided poster with full lyrics, & 8.5 x 11 "Three Myths" insert by Dylan Hausthor. Black inner sleeve.
Includes unlimited streaming of Slow Motion Summer
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 4 days
edition of 20
1 remaining
$40USDor more
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
$7USD or more
Test Pressing - Black Vinyl 12" LP with Cicada Husk
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Edition of 5. Black vinyl 12" test pressing LP, white jacket w/ double sided paste-on artwork, covers stamped w/ Jakob's blood. Comes w/ a single cicada husk, gathered by hand from tombstones in a Philadelphia cemetery. Handwritten center labels. Includes 11 x 17 Possession insert, stamped w/ Jakob's blood 3 times + signed in ink, 11 x 17 poster w/ a handwritten excerpt of the lyrics from "Sky Blue Instar", 11 x 17 double sided poster w/ full lyrics, & 8.5 x 11 "Three Myths" insert by Dylan Hausthor
Includes unlimited streaming of Slow Motion Summer
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
A spell to slow down time, a drawing back of the veil between worlds, the way that a song also contains multitudes. Slow Motion Summer is a record fixated, both metaphorically and literally, on time. It draws on the way we experience time, weaving strands of recorded sound stretched and spun at a host of different speeds to both alter and extend our perception of the moment that's swirling around us. It's also a record obsessed with the secret world, with the infinite possible ghostly echoes and iterations of any given thing, any given instant, any given piece of music - that all lie churning and spectral, just beyond our awareness. In many ways, this is the album, the hidden chamber, that Jakob has been working to uncover for years.
From the very beginning, the writing and production of Slow Motion Summer was a conscious effort to move beyond recording and performing songs that feel as though they've been slowed down, into writing songs specifically made to actually be slowed down. It was recorded almost entirely with just a 1987 Yamaha PSS-370 synthesizer and voice, using deliberate equalization, delay, reverb, and pitch shifting to construct an entire sonic landscape from just a few faded, audibly haunted elements. Each song was composed with different speeds and ultimate temporal treatments in mind, made familiar by years of slowing down other artists' songs in Audacity long after dark by the monitor's glow. They were then recorded in real-time, meticulously arranged, painted, and prepared with all the necessary distensions and coloring to arrive at their proper final states once later slowed and melted. Then, an MT4X four-track cassette recorder (1999, also Yamaha) was used to coax the envisioned spirits out of the songs through successive generations of speed-controlled tape bounce, each pass adding a layer of cobwebs and dust that further drew the record out of the realm of the familiar and into darker and distant corners altogether. Lastly, the songs themselves were sampled, stretched and cast back out into each other in strange new unrecognizable forms, living multiple lifetimes across one LP and flowing through each other in ectoplasmic currents of sound.
These are six songs from beneath the floorboards, six incantations designed to bend the infinitely unfolding present according to their will. Their exterior shells have been cracked so that one possible other essence might be called forth. Here, we've moved beyond the familiar signifiers of altered experience, beyond the standard sonic psychedelisicms of the 20th century, always tucked into otherwise ordinary songs to merely hint and gesture at the outer reaches of possible human perception. From the moment it begins, Slow Motion Summer literally alters your experience, calling you into just one of the secret whispering worlds below, one where everything has been recast in rich alien shadow. Holes have been carved in the songs themselves, creating yawning chasms where gaseous forms claw up at us before dissipating into the darkness. Tempo and pitch hang suspended, sliding like flesh from the bone, and a warm blanket of tape hiss subsumes echoing trails of synthesizer and layered voice, marking the threshold of still other impenetrable spaces beyond.
credits
released October 4, 2023
Jakob Battick - Vocals, Yamaha PSS-370, Programming, Samples
On "Unfolding Ghost / Distant Glimmering Star" & "Lilac Ghost Procession":
Liam Herb - Roland SH-101, Casiotone M-10, Crystal Wine Glasses, Bird Whistle, Objects
Engineered + mixed by Jakob Battick
Mastered by James Plotkin
Cover photo lighting by Ryan Cutler
Secondary retouching by Milo Moyer-Battick
supported by 10 fans who also own โSlow Motion Summerโ
This episode was featured on the April 24, 2023 episode of Foxy Digitalis Daily: https://foxydigitalis.zone/2023/04/24/foxy-digitalis-daily-4-24-23-old-saw/ Brad Rose
A collection of tracks from the singer and multi-disciplinary artist's 111 collaboration series, featuring KMRU, Laraaji, and others. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2024
