The lovely people at the Foxy D. blog gave Wood-Land’s ‘Stone Circle’ album 10/10.
“I want to congratulate you because you have won my award for best psych album of the year! Maybe even best psych album ever?! “Stone Circle” deserves much more than a measly ten stars!”
Thank You Dave!
Dry by Aidan Baker got a nice review in the latest issue of WIRE.
After much deliberation and work, Install is proud to unveil its first vinyl release: Milieu’s Phosphene Weather LP. Notable for also being the first time Milieu’s work has appeared on the vinyl format, Phosphene is a special affair, limited to 150 copies on randomly colored vinyl inside custom silk screened sleeves with hand-numbered inserts, sporting a modern design by David Tagg. Musically, Phosphene Weather inhabits a similar universe as previous Milieu ambient output, such as A Warm Wooden Hollow, Of The Apple or Brittle Paper Cathedrals. The record’s three songs walk slowly through an Autumnal landscape that is as colorful as it is eroded, and over the course of 40 minutes the listener is treated to liquid sunset immersion, surrounded on all sides by soft wind sweeping red leaves over orange fields and cloudlike formations of chords that arrive right on time with the warm hum of a pedal bass. Swells of log cabin isolation, woodwind and guitar drones and pure sleepy thought filter through the horizon line. Phosphene Weather is total night music, and quite possibly the pinnacle of Milieu’s ambient output to date.
PRE-ORDER!!! Will begin shipping the week of November 23rd!!!
After an Installation series debut, a remix album and over a year’s worth of recording, Wood-Land has returned from the deep woods of Pennsylvania with Stone Circle. Those familiar with Wood-Land’s work know to expect some deep earthy lo-fi stuff, and on this point, Stone Circle delivers. Sounding like some worn cassette dug up from under an oak tree, the 20 songs on Stone Circle paint a vivid picture of slowly eroded gospel hymns reduced to warped loops and textural embellishments. Folk music recorded on tree bark, confederate ghosts inhabiting a transistor radio, dream-state chants echoing down a dark wooden hall covered in leaves. Wood-Land has never sounded more surreal and overgrown. Perfect decaying Autumn music, limited to 100 copies and gracefully mastered by Greg Davis with artwork by PAN.
The latest addition my split series at INSTALL features none other then Obfusc. Know for his for his releases at Static Caravan and Boltfish he has definitely made his mark with his own signature brand of minimal electronica. With this split Obfusc takes a turn to ambient music with very successful results. -David Tagg
There are only 40 copies of this for sale so if you would like one do not wait or risk being disappointed. ONE PER CUSTOMER!!!
The first ever David Tagg cassette is out now on CO_RD!
Announcement From CO_RD:
“I’ve recently been given the happy privilege of introducing David Tagg’s music to the cassette format for the first time ever! Out now at the super-DIY cassette-only imprint CO_RD Tapes… Containing what I’d consider to be some of David’s finest work to date, Established Trees is thick, organic guitar overload. The A side is a towering piece with long sweeping chords covered in a dusky reverb, while the B side sounds as if it were dug up in a swamp somewhere deep in the southeastern US. Loaded with hidden melodies and rich texture, this tape is sure to be a real treat for anyone who enjoys abstracted guitar music. For David Tagg fans – there are only 25 copies so act fast!”
A digital 7″ release, compliments of Millipede and Install 320 KBPS MP3 files and a high-resolution cover image.
Just in time for the end of summer, we’ve got the perfect record to play while you watch the leaves turn colors and die: DRY. Veteran experimental guitarist Aidan Baker’s stellar contribution to Install couldn’t get any more straightforward. As the title would indicate, this is raw, live Baker we’re hearing, stripped down to the barest of components, no effects, no overdubs, warts and all. We’ve been following Baker’s output for years and we have to admit that we’ve never heard the man sound quite like this before. Unlike anything else we can think of, Dry is a contemplative experience that is as much physical as it is immaterial. Baker’s evocative playing style has never quite been this bare, and Dry proves that beneath all of the drenching reverbs and delays on his prior works, there is an incredible improvisational force at work. Sonically it mines monochrome landscapes of unpainted canvas, weaving in and out of melodic motifs, as if it were recorded in a dream state, while compositionally it lies somewhere between Jandek and Satwa, being both dissonant and meditative. Confessing and immersive, this is a record we cannot praise enough, and since there probably isn’t much that hasn’t already been said about Aidan Baker by now, we’ll get to the point: If you only hear one Baker release in 2009, make it this one – we’re certain you won’t regret it!
Please enjoy a free download of the excellent remix album for Wood-Land’s 2008 debut release Home. This release was initally only available as a handmade promo sent out by Wood-Land himself to those who purchased the Home album from Install. At the time of this upload, Wood-Land’s second album Stone Circle is soon to be released at Install, and so both Install and Wood-Land are happy to give you this unique collection of remixes and reimaginings to tide you over until Stone Circle arrives.
Wood-Land’s next album at INSTALL entitled ‘Stone Circle’ is already at press and will be out the beginning of fall. Packaged in a mini-lp sleeve featuring art by PAN and mastered by Greg Davis sure to be steller… This is some deep in the woods shit…
Hot on the heels of our Peter Wright double-album, we are proud to bring you another album you will want to hear at unholy decibel levels: DISPEL SPACE-TIME LUST by the collaborative duo of Jason Adams (Heptangular, Wordsalad) and Shinobu Nemoto (Summons Of Shining Ruins). Both heavy and heartbreaking, Dispel showcases the strengths of both artists in a powerful way…sad, violin-like swells of guitar give way to mangled and desolate atmospherics, while on other tracks we seem to be locked inside an aural prison of blackness, smog and the scent of burnt hair. The recording itself also seems to have been significantly damaged, with crusts of tape noise and warping throughout, giving us the feeling that Jason and Shinobu consecrated the master tapes in a fiery ritual inside a cave on Mars. Fans of both Shinobu’s work as Summons as well as Jason’s work as Heptangular (see below) would likely find this album to be an essential body of work, and one worth hearing for anyone who loves massive onslaughts of guitars writhing in and out of a bleak universe, conjured by two very seasoned mages, and only here at Install.
As if the record wasn’t great enough as it is, we’re offering a free copy of the Heptangular album “Restored” to anyone who buys DSTL, until we run out of them. An amazing album on its own, “Restored” is an obscure and underappreciated slab of experimental guitar work that we feel deserves to be heard. “Restored” will also be available for sale by itself in the shop for a limited time.