Search - Grails :: Black Tar Prophecies 4 (Dig)

With Black Tar Prophecies 4, Grails reawaken
the series that initially began the run of records
that mapped their rise to the forefront of modern
instrumental music. While recording their full-length
with an eye towards cohesion and epic production,
the Black Tar series affords Grails a backdoor to a
black lodge where they can explore total head music.
In this volume Grails combine backmasked Satanic
tape collage with old Emmanuelle soundtracks,
pushing them further in the direction of a classical
Italian melodrama soundtracked by Nurse With
Wound. The Black Tar material is conceived slowly,
in between tours and full-length albums, giving
the series its own experimental space and keeping
its final sum unknown even to its practitioners. As
before, the series format will consist of two vinyl EPs
and an eventual CD version. Like the slab of black
slate in the opening of Kubrick s 2001, Black Tar is
an attempt to bring the ritual act of music back to its
original mysterious genesis, where the listener and
artist both stare into a nebula s electric cloud before
it takes its inevitable shape as a planet.