Cargo Records

Silver Trees / Damiel EP

This double A side split EP contains five tracks from Asura, immediately following up his splendid self-titled LP, coupled with three from newcomer Anenon (pronounced “on-and-on”), aka Non Projects founder Brian Simon.

Asura’s side documents his ongoing musical activities and unbelievable artistic range with dreamily orchestrated and expertly crafted hypnagogic head nodders featuring his own soaring voice (‘Silver Trees’, ‘Outer Bnk’), a luxurious ambient synth and tape manipulation experiment (‘Crimson And Bone’), a manic IDM ode (‘The Ocean’), and the deep beats-meets-hiss and crackle of ‘Sleepers’, a piece originally composed for his first ever Low End Theory club performance.

Anenon shows his equally distinctive musical capabilities on the other side with a 13 minute journey through a dream that may or may not have happened – a false recollection of sorts brought to life through free jazz, classical and laptop composition inclinations. Gushing synthesizer waterfalls unite with lumbering downtempo beats and floaty percussion on opener ‘Chimera’. The beautifully lucid synth ballad centre-piece ‘Damiel’ follows, fading into ‘Retold’, which fleshes the the suite out with skittery free jazz drums underpinned by a four on the floor thump, as melodic synth chords build and float in and out.

Finally, the epic yet restrained closer ‘Endless’ emerges, featuring more budding chaotic drums, hypnotic synth lines, and Anenon’s own saxophone lines. Vinyl-only release limited to 500 transparent copies, for fans of Flying Lotus, Baths, Nosaj Thing, Matthewdavid, Boards Of Canada, and Take.