BASS COMMUNION: LOSS 2006 LP Limited #154/450 NEW Steven Wilson Porcupine Tree

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BASS COMMUNION: 2006 LOSS LP.  1st Pressing.

2006 Soleilmoon Recordings #SOLV011 USA

Handmade packaging

+ textured cover w/ foldover top

+ textured inner sleeve

+ 8-page perfumed photo album

Numbered edition of 450 copies. This Copy is #154

Release date 2006

LONG SOLD-OUT & SCARCE

MINIMAL DRONE CLASSIC

Cover/Vinyl/Prints/Innersleeve M- Unplayed Condition.  

Very rare original vinyl edition of this Bass Communion album, which is possibly the best. Mr. Wilson claims that the music here is focusing

purely on the texture and inherent qualities of pure sound, and that it achieves a "purity of intent and spirit, as a means to express his

innermost feelings at a much deeper level". Whatever the spiritual effect it's certainly packaged in a beautifully embossed thick card sleeve

inside a clear plastic wallet. The record is also delicately perfumed and included with it is an album of Victorian photographic Death portraits.

The overall effect is like finding something particularly spooky in the bottom of your recently deceased great Aunt's wardrobe. You won't get

many chances to own one of these as people will not want to part with it. Not to be missed !

Loss is not about the violent moment of loss, but its aftermath. The crushing melancholia, the endless questions of “what if?” and “why?”, as

well as the concepts of regret, missed opportunity, or a feeling or moment in time that can never be recaptured. But even in the midst of this

gloomy scene, hope and light are born, for loss is never total. Memory lingers, a residue of evidence is left behind, and life goes on.

Steven Wilson, the man behind Bass Communion, says “For me, the album is an extension of the previous release, Ghosts on Magnetic Tape,

which relates to Electronic Voice Phenomena, or the idea that the dead can still communicate with the living world through recorded media. In

order to try to capture this feeling I wanted the music to leave a spectral, ghostly impression, and to have an organic decaying quality, like

something trying to break through from another world. To this end my musical sources were mainly 78 rpm records, a vibraphone and an

upright piano. No synths or electronics were used, only organic sources or instrumentation that has been around for at least the last century.”

Although more well known for his rock band Porcupine Tree and his production and mixing work for artists as diverse as Opeth and Yoko Ono,

Steven Wilson sees Bass Communion as his personal labor of love. In Bass Communion we hear not only the music nearest to his heart, but

the music closest to what he himself listens to: “In freeing myself from thinking in terms of melody or rhythm, and focusing purely on the texture

and inherent qualities of pure sound, I believe the music achieves a purity of intent and spirit, as a means to express some of my

innermost feelings such as loss on a much deeper level.

Contains the following Tracks:

1. Loss part 1 (19.34)

2. Loss part 2 (18.52)

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