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Label

Western vinyl

Botany

Deepak Verbera

Third LP by Austin's Spencer Stephenson aka Botany, bends the beat-driven path carved by the composer's - first two records into meterless cosmic territory, juxtaposing free jazz arrhythmia with cathedral-lling harmony, ringing on the temple walls with soaring grandeur. A psych-inflected scrapbook of atmospheres with tremendous sonic and emotional breadth.. In essence Deepak Verbera is a soundscape record created through methods usually found in hip-hop vinyl samples, looped vocal phrases, pulsing bass, and warm synths all shimmer with kosmische-indebted splendor, like Popol Vuh with MPCs and a stack of secondhand records. "Whose Ghost" opens the album, challenging the listener to endure an Albert Ayler-style clamour of argumentative drums and brass. Then follows the library-music-inspired "Has Appeared" prior to the ascendant, "Ory (Joyous Toil)". Its incense laden sister song "Burning From the Edges Inward" plays like a mini-album unto itself, seamlessly shifting moods with each passage as rolling waves of acoustic piano diffuse into smoked-out guitar drones and witch-like choirs. Side A ends with "Outer Verberum," a guitar-heavy track which can only be described as "free-psych". Tracks like "Gleaning Gleaming" are built out of micro-snippets of soul records that cascade over themselves to become something wholly incomparable to their source.

Tracklist

• 1. Whose Ghost
  2. Appears (Mini Verberum)
  3. Cry (Joyous Toil)
  4. Burning from the Edges Inward
  5. Outer Verberum
  6. Clean L Ungs
  7. Gleaning Gleaming
  8. Needam/wish To
  9. Valediction
  10. Orange Hits the Pupil