EXEK - Some Beautiful Species Left LPDR 38 Now shipping From Melbourne Australia, EXEK are proud to unveil their third album, Some Beautiful Species Left. Like their previous releases, Some Beautiful Species Left is the cultivation of numerous edits and overdubs, where once again EXEK subscribe to Brian Enos philosophy of the studio as an instrument. This MO allows the songwriting process to develop simultaneously alongside the recording process whilst privileging greater sonic control.

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This may be in part attributable to the time invested in recording these five songs: starting in mid 2018 and finishing throughout the various periods of lockdown in 2020

The Flying Lizards

a searching with no need to find

the space is literal

and not simply because it was the first to be released

as warm and tangible as the tape hiss bathing it

But after the pandemic further delayed that multi-year project

too much backstory)

Shiroishi's work tapped into a timeless spiritual tradition of music -- closer to those of artistic heroes such as Coltrane or Ayler

5 IPS recording

collapsing both past and future into the present