* 12" sapphire marble and Black LP
* 4mm spine 350g reverse board cover
* w* obi
After a period of dormancy in the Magic Jungle, ZAÄAR has continued to breed several ovules at WV Sorcerer Productions. The first one comes as a result of this split LP with the Tennessee occult trio Spintria, with which WV Sorcerer has teamed up with Moonlight Cypress Archetypes to present “Genesis of Cyclopian Sorcerer.”
Following the dark lineage of Tennessee’s Southern Gothic tradition, with wild alien-shaped tentacles growing out of the wild grass fields, Spintria performs their mesmerism through free jazz / improv / black metal music, hypnotic and untamed. As for ZAÄAR, they have brought us a piece of free jazz tribal dancing conducted by primitive beasts as part of this transcendental journey into the world of sorcery.
We also have the great honor of collaborating with French artist Kathy Aponi and presenting two stunning paintings of hers, "Aurochs" & "Twalaak", as cover art for this record.
Brussels, surrealist jungle. Saxophonist JJ Duerinckx was seeking the truth in improvised music. Using survival skills from his lizard brain, multi-instrumentist Guillaume CZLT went down with him in the waters of the suburb mangroves to meet electronic multiverse moebius Didié Nietzche. Neptunian Maximalism was gathered in an ethno-industrial liturgy, then appeared a double-headed pulse entity. Drummer Sébastien Schmit and bassist HP Desrosiers arrived as one, connected by an inner primitive self. “ZAAAÄÄÄAAAR!”, did they shout when separated into two bodies by a powerful psych-free jazz ritual. “Here and now!” JJ said, and the quintet was made.
Spintria is designed to melt the borders between free improvisation, free jazz, black metal, drone metal, and more, and is furthermore an attempt to discard the ideas of written vs improvised music altogether. There is an overarching guiding hand but it is not composed, and though it is improvised it is not "free improv" in a true sense.
"The storm waves of jazz fusion, drone metal, ambient music, prog-metal hit you again and again, but not at random. This isn't to say I think every note on this special release is carefully planned, it probably isn't, but that there's a definite sense of an overarching, chaotic spirit guiding it. And whatever it is you might have to say about that spirit, it sure as hell ain't boring. At times, in fact, it's positively breathtaking."
- Machine Music
