Lunar Mining and Excavation

by Lavatone

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Anthony Childs Tribal. Environmental. Ceremonial. Cavernous. Subterranean. Industrial. Music for Summoning. Music that may have attempted to summon Shriekback's "Evaporation" & Techno Animal, discovering the eroded, dessicated pulse of the life force of multiple environments still threatening to outlast its greatest enemy: us. Satisfying and disturbing at higher volumes (always protect your ears), trance-inducing at any volume. Recommended. Favorite track: I - Mare Nubium.

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The double album will be released in two parts. The first album is out now, and second half (out Dec. 1st). This album is part of Lost Tribe Sound's 11 album series, 'Maps to Where the Poison Grows.' Subscribe to the series to receive a discounted price on the CD or digital version, here: https://losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-to-where-the-poison-grows-subscription-series

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1.	I - Levitating Moon Dust 06:41	buy track
2.	I - Engage Bore 08:10	buy track
3.	I - Scanner 06:25	buy track
4.	I - Potato Bug in my Coffee 05:23	buy track
5.	I - Fire Light Star Man 08:01	buy track
6.	I - dA 06:40	buy track
7.	I - Mare Nubium 08:20	buy track
8.	II - Crystal Harvest 06:30	buy track
9.	II - Betbells 06:09	buy track
10.	II - Reprocessing Waste Materials 07:00	buy track
11.	II - Microholes 07:04	buy track
12.	II - Maybe Snakes 06:15	buy track
13.	II - Zero Gravity Pulverizer 06:03	buy track
14.	II - Trajectory 08:38	buy track

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This album is part of Lost Tribe Sound's 11 album series, 'Maps to Where the Poison Grows.' Subscribe to the series to receive a discounted price on the CD or digital version, here: losttribesound.bandcamp.com/album/maps-to-where-the-poison-grows-subscription-series

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Texas-based experimental percussionist Lavatone makes a commanding entrance on the Lost Tribe Sound label, with the new double album, ‘Lunar Mining and Excavation’. The album will be released in two parts ‘Mining’ (out Nov. 3rd) and Excavation (out Dec. 1st). LM&E embarks on a rare concept album from the artist. This is heavy, filthy, industrial workplace, Total Recall eyes-popping-out-of-your-head type stuff, only no air this time, Cohaagan. It’s the ugly side of Space Music… overworked machinery, duct taped space suits, turds hovering at low-gravity in the porta-johns, pounding, grinding, noise and catharsis.

If all that comes across as hellish and unapproachable, rest assured Lavatone’s a master of low-frequency sound and polyrhythms. While the label first discovered his impressive back-catalog in 2021, Drew Holder, the guy behind the alias, has been making his special breed of drone and thump music since the mid 90’s. While his mechanized approach takes on structural similarities to that of electronic music, Holder doesn’t even own a synth, and the percussive elements are all created by hand before being fed into a machine for further manipulation. This lends a deep, tactile richness to the music. This electroacoustic effect was well apparent in works like 2021 ‘Elevator,’ where these steady, brutish rhythms were aided by a multitude of strangely exotic offshoots, as they tunneled their way through a steely latticework of controlled noise.

With ‘Lunar Mining and Excavation,’ Lavatone reigns in some of the ritualistic or exotic aspects of previous releases, opting instead for gritty machine-like emulations. The thud of mammoth rock-pulverizers, earth-boring drills the size of skyscrapers, the endless clacking of conveyor belts carrying mineral to the surface, all help to inform the droning backdrop of this dystopian mining operation seated on this cold, inhospitable terrain.

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released December 1, 2023

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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog: losttribesound.bandcamp.com
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Total Run Time: 97:07 minutes

Written, recorded and mixed by Lavatone
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Artwork, layout and design by R. Keane
© Lost Tribe Sound LLC / Lavatone
℗ Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)

RELEASE SCHEDULE:
Oct. 13th - Engage Bore
Oct. 24th - Mare Nubium
Nov. 3rd - Crystal Harvest (All Digital/Streaming Platforms)
Nov. 3rd - Mining (Part I) Album Release (Bandcamp Only)
Nov. 10th - Betbells
Nov. 21st - Maybe Snakes
Dec. 1st - Excavation (Part II) Bandcamp (Full Album Release - (All Digital/Streaming Platforms)

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