Bass Communion - The Itself Of Itself (2024)

The Itself Of Itself was selected from 10 years worth of recordings, the ones chosen being those that I felt added something a bit different to the catalogue. It's probably the most noisy and experimental Bass Communion album, but perhaps also the most carefully constructed since I've been messing about with these tracks on and off for the best part of a decade. Most tracks incorporate ‘unwanted’ analogue artefacts such as tape hiss, wow and flutter, static noise, and sonic break-up. One of the other main sound sources is my trusty mellotron, but made to sound like it's buried under layers of rust and dirt.

"...fragmented, garbled and buried voices, vast vacillating banks of grainy hum, what sounds like the dying gasps of an oboe, spooky swirls from an indiscernible source, swathes of tape hiss, moody drones, and spiralling slivers of noise."

The Itself Of Itself is also available as a very limited edition CD released by Lumberton Trading Company, housed in a Carl Glover designed Japanese style gatefold card cover, with a 24 page booklet of photographs and an OBI strip. Available from the Fourth Dimension Records website.