*200 hand-numbered copies limited edition* "Sunder is the first full-length collaboration between Brooklyn-based Thomas Meluch (aka Benoît Pioulard) and Denver-based Jason Corder (aka offthesky). After years of independent work amid a like-minded community of ambient experimentalists, the two were brought together by the collaboration-centric Laaps label, for whom Corder has previously worked with Craig Tattersall (aka The Humble Bee). Across Sunder's eight chapters, we hear careful constructions of tape-tinged guitar, voice, and field recordings, as well as strings, flute, bells and myriad other elements that arise and recede organically. Best experienced as a whole, the album's subtle flow is imbued with an arc that balances melancholy with windswept drift."
Recorded at La Berceuse (Brooklyn, NY) and Offthesky studio, Denver CO in 2022-23 with electric and acoustic guitar, voice, microcassette tape, field recordings, modular synth, strings and flute.
Special thanks to: Julie Slater for various string recordings & Shilpi Gupta for flute on "Guilt and Beauty".
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Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Benoït Pioulard
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