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Marble Sky - "The Sad Return"

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Limited to a mere 15 copies, the original Marble Sky cassette
 is definitely an album which has been talked about more than
 actually heard. Released in 2007 by the Callow God label, and
dedicated to "several friends passing through and across,"
"The Sad Return" finds Impregnable's Jeff Witscher conjuring
devastatingly beautiful tidepools of romantic, nostalgic
drone music. As evidenced by the surge of placid, warm
Impregnable recordings which began turning up midway through
2007, Witscher has become increasingly interested in lulling
 ambient music - a move which is in sharp contrast to his
 earlier, blisteringly harsh noise work with Impregnable. After
hearing the cassette, we knew that this was material that demanded
a larger audience and we're thrilled to present the original material
along with 20 minutes of new recordings. 

Listening to "The Sad Return" is akin to staring out into a grey
horizon on a late autumn day. "Pulling Out Grass Under a Blanket"
is a smear of beautifully evolving, evocative tones wrung from
guitar and synthesizer. Witscher's attention to detail and pacing
is marvelous, as wisps of choral drones weave in and out of
warm gushes of washed out synth discharge. Later, on "What You
Might Forget," surges of static threaten to unhinge a romantic
dronework that brings to mind the levitating vistas of Mirror at
their most poignant. Elsewhere, Witscher channels the glacial
synth studies of Elaine Radigue into a myriad of focused, devotional
 dreamstates akin to the dayglo analog string fantastias put forth
 by Stars of the Lid circa "Avec-Laudenum." Ultimately, Marble Sky
 stands as Witscher's opus: a strikingly wrought meditation on
 sadness, love and the depths of memory.

*"The Sad Return" is now available for PRE-ORDER. Note
the availability of 100 SPECIAL EDITION copies which
will include a 3'' CDR of new Marble Sky recordings that
will not be available otherwise.*

CD
(ltd. 500)

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