Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry ‎– Vryashn, US 2011 Infraction ‎– INFX 049 LP, White Vinyl LP

Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry ‎– Vryashn, US 2011 Infraction ‎– INFX 049 LP, White Vinyl LP

The contents, conveyed when placed on graceful turntable, find Bible and trusty sidekick Henry stewards of a veritable flotilla of sources manipulated to produce soundings that are as upwellings from the deep. Their theme is of a dream within a dream – of being snowbound (see cover!), becoming numb and falling asleep, awaking in the rain (hear disc!) only to find yourself in another dream and location. The twosome get you traveling without moving with a pair of sweeping suites; these are presented – though never wholly revealed, obscured as they are by shifting clouds of layers, oneiric scenes sonically projected in Bible black and other hues of Henry’s choosing.

Vryashn – presumably, so-called for its concept of reduced variation – is diversely, esoterically, rendered via water line pipes, wine glasses, rain on a window, and a garage lamp, a concession to convention in the liberal deployment of a piano, albeit a heavily waterlogged one. Not one for purist ambient piano-philes, who can bid bye-bye to Budd baths, their beloved, variously immersed, fragmented and re-moulded. There’s something of the eternal in it, but no Lamonte Young theatre, this piano not so much well-tuned as well-treated – ending up adrift near riskier reefs where you might catch sight of Aloof Proof’s The Ghost Ship, or even a glimpse of Andrew Liles’ Dying Submariner.

Limited edition of 500 copies. 100 on baby blue marbled vinyl and 400 copies on white vinyl (this). 
180gr vinyl, packaged in gatefold sleeve with obi.