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Kate Simko

Albums
2562
3ofmillions
3 Seconds Of Air
Monty Adkins
Agoria
Anduin
Natalie Beridze TBA
Black Eagle Child
Boduf Songs
Bodzin Vs Romboy
Build
Marco Carola
Blake Carrington
Codes In The Clouds
Dreamsploitation
Federico Durand
Elektro Guzzi
Emanuele Errante
FiRES WERE SHOT
Rick Frystak
Garin & Gobart
Gerard and Graydon
Kraig Grady
Guthrie & Budd
Marcus Intalex
Jumpel
Slavek Kwi
March
Maschine
Melodium
Alton Miller
Obsil
Phaedra
Semiomime
Shaula
Kate Simko
Sleepingdog
Nobuto Suda
Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Compilations / Mixes
5ZIG
20 F@#&ING Years
Michelangelo Antonioni
Fabric 56: Derrick Carter

EPs
Agoria featuring Kid A
Aleph
A Story of Rats
Orlando B.
Ceremony
Cex
Matthew Dear
Entia Non & Tanner Menard
Nick Kuepfer
Clem Leek
Mat Le Star
Lulacruza
Paul Lyman
Moss
Resampled Part 1
Resampled Part 2
Snoretex
Subeena

Clem Leek: A Letter
Hibernate

In the limited physical edition of the release, the three-inch disc is enclosed within an appropriately distressed envelope that's been individually aged using tea as a dye and is itself bound in string—as if the letter had been stored in an attic box and exhumed decades later. The letter's contents? A single-track, nineteen-minute live recording that not surprisingly acts as a natural complement to Leek's 2010 debut album Holly Lane. Assembled using Ableton Live and with processed guitar, violin, voice, and field recordings as source elements, the piece unfolds as a mellifluous and steady ambient-drone hum against a grainy backdrop that suggests the rainswept outdoors. Though the instruments' individuating characters are largely downplayed, organ-like tones and breathy voices can be heard drifting o'ertop the willowy material's ebb-and-flow, and one finds oneself gradually being drawn into Leek's gentle vortex, especially when the whole swells into an elegiac hymnal mass during its final third. It's no surprise that the eighty physical copies are gone, but a digital version of the release is available. No dreamscaper should be without one.

April 2011