{"product_id":"sound-cipher-all-that-syncs-must-diverge-lp-02028623871","title":"Sound Cipher - All That Synchs Must Diverge [LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSound Cipher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the surreal, pulsating sonic vision shared by three of modern music's most uncompromising sound sculptors. It’s the sort of thing that emerges when \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTim Alexander \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Primus, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle) finds himself inside a thunderous duo improvisation with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSkerik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Critters Buggin, Garage A Trois, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade) during a soundcheck for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrimus' Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tour in Oakland CA. One person surrounded by a circular percussion station of preposterous proportions, another person hurling psychedelic saxophonic screams into the hellfire of analog and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e digital circuitry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccident leads to inspiration leads to intentionality leads to attack, and the first official Sound Cipher excursion was scheduled for January 2, 2017 at Studio Litho in Seattle WA with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRandall Dunn\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Sunn O))), Six Organs of Admittance, Akron\/Family) at the production helm. He would bring aboard \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTimm Mason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Wolves In The Throne Room, Eyvind Kang \u0026amp; Jessica Kenney, J\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eó\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehann J\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eó\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehannsson) to assist with modular synth processing, generally a technical advisory role involving lab coats and clipboards and chin-scratching. The participants arrived and were surprised to find Mason setting up in the live room instead of the control room. As the recording unfolded, Mason's direct in-the-moment sonic manipulation of the proceedings made it clear that he belonged at the creative core of the project where he remains today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eListeners \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand innocent bystanders have reported spiritual resemblances to the experimental German scene of the 70s with traces of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCan, Faust, Neu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and early \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKraftwerk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the dark manic rumble of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Gabriel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's early work and the complex digital hardcore first birthed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAphex Twin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSquarepusher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, all of it wrapped in an unsettling atmosphere that verily reeks of familiar ingredients: a tumbling machine-tight groove, a wash of analog synths direct from your midnight movie memories, a snippet from your grandpa's old \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLouis Armstrong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e records stretched across miles of fizzling voltage and contorted into barely recognizable and altogether quite mind-altering new shapes.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eInitial plans to release the 2017 session as Sound Cipher’s unveiling were revised when the trio found a new level of clarity in shaping their ideas following a series of live performances in 2018. Further recording and mixing took place in 2018 at Avast Studios, also in Seattle. Now, six years after that initial studio date, the finest flowers from those multiple sessions are available to adventurous listeners everywhere in the form of Sound Cipher's debut LP, \u003cspan\u003eAll That Syncs Must Diverge\u003c\/span\u003e, to be released April 21, 2023 on vinyl and digital formats via Royal Potato Family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50568843264296,"sku":"02028623871","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/3833\/7576\/files\/4196200-3152205.jpg?v=1763988035","url":"https:\/\/waterloorecords.com\/products\/sound-cipher-all-that-syncs-must-diverge-lp-02028623871","provider":"Waterloo Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}