John Kolodij and Josh Mason
Josh Mason
180 gram vinyl.
Limited to 200.
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri
Art, layout and design by Daniel Murphy
Ezra Feinberg - acoustic and electric guitars, piano, electronics
Robbie Lee - flute
Jonas Reinhardt - Arp Odyssey
Produced by John Thayer at Thump Studios
Bless whatever cosmic winds brought together this split between NYC guitarist and composer Ezra Feinberg and multi-instrumentalist John Kolodij. Traveling deep blue highways of the mind, their split LP opens up the stunning vistas that link these two artists in sound and texture. Their compositions offer an immersive headphone record that pairs rich guitar work – thick with droning overtones or riding heavy with in-the-red distortion – with bucolic woodwinds, brass, piano, strings and electronic processing. An album that finds both artists at peak form.
Ezra Feinberg
Ezra Feinberg is a guitarist, composer, and psychoanalyst living in Jackson Heights, NY. Feinberg was the founding member of the San Francisco psychedelic rock collective Citay, releasing albums on Important Records and Dead Oceans throughout the 2000s. As a solo artist, Feinberg has performed and toured near and far with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Steve Gunn, Alexander Turnquist, Cruel Diagonals, Daniel Carter, Jonas Reinhardt, Christopher Tignor, Kath Bloom, Robbie Lee, High Aura’d, Glasser, Ava Mendoza, Buck Curran, Real Estate, and many others, and has ongoing studio collaborations with Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Arp.
John Kolodij
The multi-instrumentalist composer John Kolodij has been releasing music under the moniker High Aura'd for the past decade. He's released albums on TYPE Records, Whited Sepulchre, Unifactor, Debacle Records, & Bathetic which have garnered accolades from The Wire, Pitchfork, NPR and Tiny Mix Tapes.High aura'd has shared the stage with Loren Connors, Charlemagne Palestine, Susan Alcorn, Barn Owl, Angel Olsen, The Body, Deaf Center, Mary Halvorson, Scott Tuma, among many others. Collaborations with Angel Olsen, Jon Mueller, & Mike Shiftet, Andre Foisy/Locrian, & JohnTwells/Xela.
cott Tuma, among many others. Collaborations with Angel Olsen, Jon Mueller, & Mike Shiftet, Andre Foisy/Locrian, & JohnTwells/Xela.
"Lower Yr Voice" by John Kolodij and Josh Mason captures all of the static electricity and gorgeous distortion ping-ponging between solid state amps and busted eardrums that filled sweaty basements and VFW halls in the split-seconds between songs performed by bands like Portraits of Past and Clikatat Ikatowi.
This record, by two artists with their feet planted in the firma of eliding ambient/drone music, finds the two interpolating the unintended sweetness and experimentation in those between-song pregnant pauses of bands flying the banner of Ebullition and Gravity Records.
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NPR MUSIC
Quiet drones strung from grey clouds and doomy, feedback-smoked ash swirl together on a collaborative album that both illuminates and obscures the differing, yet complementary ambient styles of Josh Mason and John Kolodij (a.k.a. High Aura'd).
FLUID-RADIO
The sound is enwombing and partially frail, like a dessert handkerchief unknown on the dining table the night before. “Silver”, for example, the lead track in the promotional material, dates itself in tremors of white noise, an amoeba in a busy queue of bacteria. A full and absorbing adventure, it’s a cut that deserves your full attention upon its crest.