Excavated Relics available now from Boomkat

Limited copies of Excavated Relics are available now from Boomkat

Here's their write-up:

"Gauzy, low-key, organically textured dub and wizened folk explorations from Thomas Shrubsole, reviving his Sub Loam alias with two ‘Excavated Relics’ from the archive circa 2009-2010.

The A-side’s Soil Surface’ speaks to Shrubsole’s signature grasp of slow-moving sonic murk with nearly 10 minutes of endearingly weary dub chords perfused with acidic percolations that appear to mimic a sped-up (but still very slow) time-lapse image of soil dynamics, while the other side’s 11 minute piece ’Stone Fragment’ catches him picking out coruscating guitar strings and against peripheral percussion and distant vocal droens in a style murkily resonating with the mystic appeal of Zoviet France. Both are assuredly swaddled in layers of ferric tape hiss. Both humbly worth your time."

New Release: Supplement to the Portable Archive - Sub Loam - Excavated Relics

 Supplement to the Portable Archive

Additional Items Received 2019

Two recently rediscovered examples of Anomalous Loam dating from c. 2009 - 2010 excavated and displayed on professional, high quality, real-time duplicated cassettes in a clear cassette case with printed j-card and cardboard outer slipcase.

Outliers from the early trilogy of Cotton Goods/Dissolving releases Ohr, 2 and Earthern Circle (2009 - 2010, as documented on The Portable Archive and digitally), these two tracks, around ten minutes each, are thematically and musically related whilst standing at a remove from the circle of those original releases. Four-track murk, hiss and delay, fragmentary percussives, guitar strings as contour lines and twisting stems, burgeoning organic clouds, analogue electronics, observation and contemplation.

The connections with the spiked rural wanderings of Earthern Circle, the heavy soil dubs of 2 and the radiant moods of Ohr are clear whilst also travelling outwards from those zones towards the territory where these two other, previously unreleased, distinct artefacts were discovered.

Two Archaic Remnants, excavated from magnetic tape 2018.

Released October 19, 2019

All instruments, music, recording, production, artwork etc. Sub Loam (Thomas Shrubsole) 

C22. 45 Copies only. 

Available to order directly.

Email Sub Loam or Dissolving Records 

Thomas Shrubsole - Themes and Variations (Parenthetical Activities)

Please note, a new album as Thomas Shrubsole on a new imprint. Coming later this month...

https://soundcloud.com/parentheticalactivities/thomas-shrubsole-themes-and-variations-album-previewl

New Sub Loam release The Unfolding Map available now

Released today on Wist Rec. Available to purchase here: https://wistrec.com/wist-rec-025/

Sub Loam's The Unfolding Map available to Pre-order direct from Label

The latest release from Sub Loam, The Unfolding Map, is now available for pre-order now from directly the label Wist Rec who will be releasing it on the 25th of September.

It is a triple box set in an edition of 85 copies each packed with an individual section of 3D relief map.

Visit this page for more information and the pre-order details: https://wistrec.com/wist-rec-025/

Sound Clips of forthcoming Sub Loam release The Unfolding Map

The label Wist Rec have put together a peview of some fragments from the forthcoming Sub Loam release entitled The Unfolding Map, have a listen on soundcloud.
This will be available in August.

New Sub Loam release for 2017

Following last Autumn's retropsective 'The Portable Archive', released on Dissolving Records, which compiled Sub Loam's earliest releases for the label and for Cotton Goods, a new Sub Loam release of specially comissioned material newly composed and recorded during spring and completed just before midsummer is due in the not too distant future on Ireland's Wist Rec. This is the second time Sub Loam has recorded for Wist, having previously appeared on the multi-artist box-set release 'The Unofficial Coutryside', a digital version of the track from this release is available at the Sub Loam Bandcamp. Check back here or at the Wist website for further announcements.