{"product_id":"ssabae-azurescens-1","title":"Ssabae - Azurescens","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Few Crackles – FC05\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Vinyl, 12\", 45 RPM, Limited Edition\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCountry: UK\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased: 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStyle: Experimental, Abstract\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eMystery nighttime folk groupthink on the equally mysterious few crackles label. Record of the year?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis one has been haunting my hard drive for ages. Lost in the pressing plant shuffle, it has remain a nebulous presence that felt like it might disappear if I looked at it directly. Now it has finally made it onto the physical plane. I can only assume, via the artist names, that ssabae is a mutation of bassæ who’s first couple of records appeared on the label in 2018 and 2021. I blinked and missed the first, but the second was a weird and addictive mix of sweet but odd vocal glossolalia and chilly dubbed-out electronics. This one is a different creature entirely. Calling to mind the hazey golden age of French commune folk, it has a a more collective, but no less ethereal, sound. It’s an aesthetic that I’m a complete fool for. One which evokes the long shadow of radical 60s still falling across rural France into the late 80s. Hurdy-Gurdy, tapes, saxophone and recording experiments in the farmhouse kitchen remind me of the muddy fields and hennaed frizz of 70s Agnes Varda films. Or maybe I’m just an English middle-class idiot romanticising something I don’t really understand. Whatever, this record takes that anarchic sensiblity into a nighttime zone where plaintive guitar and that same haunted vocal meet uncanny mixing board operations and ouija-board sax. Is it me or is this record pretty much perfect. So glad I’m here for the manifestation... (NM)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1. Tous Les Matins du Monde\u003cbr\u003eA2. Le Matin\u003cbr\u003eA3. Structures Chaotiques\u003cbr\u003eA4 . Paréidolie Vingt-Trois\u003cbr\u003eB1. En Equilibre\u003cbr\u003eB2. Sommet d’une Eglise\u003cbr\u003eB3. Azurescens\u003cbr\u003eB4. L’Archipel Fractal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305586340222,"sku":"FC05","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/products\/IMG_5750.jpg?v=1669217129","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/ssabae-azurescens-1","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}