.[H-RA 009 CS] Nadra Phalanx

The ninth title in a series of short-run "Hi-Res Audio" releases, this edition of "Nadra Phalanx" was manufactured during July 2020, and comes as a pair of C-66 Music Grade Normal Bias Tapes (Transparent with Yellow Leader) with full-color labels each housed in its own Clear/Lemon Norelco Case (with the apropos gold-foil-stamped sticker affixed to the lower-right of the cover) along with full-color printed labels & J-Cards, cello-taped shut inside "Disk Union" style vertical sleeves (with the kanji strips intact). These were dubbed (warm) to tape from the original 24/96 masters in batches of 4 via a Recordex Soundmaster IV here in the studio in Brooklyn, NY, with the tracklisting modified just slightly to fit neatly into a quartet of ~33 minute sides.

This was always one of my favorite extended studio endeavors; I had wanted to make a single C-134 edition of it for ages, and this is pretty much exactly that, albeit split across two tapes instead of two sides (there was just no way the Recordex could handle anything longer than 90m without it being a special "duplicator-safe" tape; of which I simply could not find at this length). Revel in the sun slowly going down, creating waning values fed via photoresistor, then inverted to create a steady, gradual increase in how much rhythmic subdivision was in effect along a network of 12 shift registers, yielding steadily rising complexities in sound-organization. Comes with a voucher which you can use to claim the appropriate "Digital Assets" over at Bandcamp.