Sub Loam new release out in November

Sub Loam A Concise Dictionary of Plants and Their Uses 3 Tracks Limited Edition Out November on Dissolving More soon...

Ruderal Memory now available from Boomkat

Recommended this week: http://boomkat.com/cds/700917-sub-loam-ruderal-memory "Ghostly, longform electro-acoustic invocation from Sub Loam, the character also known as Thomas Shrubsole and Jesus On Mars. Via soprano saxophone fed through multi-cassette, twin-reel-to-reel set up, 'Ruderal Memory' manifests 45 minutes of seancé-like atmosphere with patiently unfolding arrangement informed by yoga breathing techniques and conducted from an anti-anthropocentric stance in key with Sub Loam's themes of elemental interplay and chlorophyllic consciousness. Aesthetically we're reminded of Robin The Fog's spectral experiments on 'The Ghosts Of Bush' or the quivering microtones yielded in William Basinski's 'Disintegration Loops', yet as with all of Shrubsole's output, there's a deeply individual spirit at work, following his own quiet path to personal enlightenment."

Ruderal Memory reviewed in Vital Weekly

SUB LOAM - RUDERAL MEMORY (CDR by Dissolving Records) Quite an obscure release here, but it's apparently released for the Vernal Quinox, which happened here without noticing it. Behind Sub Loam we find Thomas Shrubbsole, and if I am not wrong it has been a while since I last heard his music; his '2' was reviewed in Vital Weekly 732. At the very foundation of this work there is the soprano saxophone playing, along with a 'multi-cassette, twin reel-to-reel set up' to do some further manipulation. With a reel-to-reel you can easily slow down things, going from 19cm/per second to 4,5cm/per second, and perhaps that's something that Shrubbsole does here, but in a clever way. He slows down his sounds but not all of them and not all the way. Just a few, and keeps other running at regular speed. His saxophone playing reminds me occasionally more of a trumpet actually. While the whole thing sounds at times a bit crude - which may be because it is recorded live in one take - it also has a fine orchestral feel to it. Glissandi appear out of nowhere, together with a low rumble of slowed down tapes and throughout it's perhaps heavy but also in a way zen like like. Somewhere in the middle of you would find drones and improvised music, all with a classical touch, certainly in the last ten minutes. Dense meditation music, and perhaps not that spring like yet, more like a farewell for the winter season. Raw and intense, but never noise based. Very nice! (FdW) From Vital Weekly 876, April 2nd 2013 http://www.vitalweekly.net/876.html

Sub Loam - Ruderal Memory (Henge 008) - Available now!

I am very pleased to announce that the new Sub Loam album Ruderal Memory is now available to order now from Dissolving. Limited to 50 Copies only with a unique art insert in each copy. Read more HERE
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New Sub Loam Soon...

It's been a while, but with the first stirrings of spring comes the news that a new Sub Loam release is on its way. To be released on Dissolving around the end of March, keep a look out for more news here and on the Dissolving blog...

Foxy Digitalis reviews The Ley Hunter's Companion

A Nice Solstice Present:

December 21, 2011
By Travis Bird

A bit of an odd duck in the best sense, Sub Loam’s “mini-album” is a two-track, 30-minute meditative synth journey, a CD housed with a dedicated map-like poster in a 7-inch jacket. Containing two classy synth pieces, it’s an album that exalts the peculiar potential of a car trip for reflection, relaxation, and meditation. This in-car reflection always comes with solitude, and Sub Loam recognizes this and gets them out of the way, immersing the listener in the repetitive sequencer bliss of a blurry countryside passing by.

Both of these pieces are heavily indebted to certain aspects of ‘70s space and Kosmische music. “Lines In The Landscape” is a minimally changing arpeggiated sequence anchoring a hovering Kosmische-inspired theme. Although the daydream is broken rather abruptly at the end of the track, we move quickly into the equally mesmerizing “Odyssey.” This is a slightly faster sequence that features a prominent flanger effect and, again, minimal variation, until it slowly floats away.

Although it was released in time for “summer holidays,” the trip is equally comfortable listening in these winter times. Limited to 230 copies, this is a nice little document.

Dissolving Records

8/10

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=23056

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The Ley Hunter's Companion

Sub Loam's current release, The Ley Hunter's Companion (on Dissolving Records) has just been reviewed in this month's textura magazine. Those of you who enjoyed Earthern Circle, or indeed 2 and Ohr, may well enjoy this one, too.

It's available at the moment from Ultima Thule (on the racks with a couple of key influences, if you look hard enough... :) ), Fluid Radio's retail arm Stashed Goods, Boomkat, Phonica, Bleep and Norman's.