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Alternative 05/09/2018

Seattle's Lost Chocolate Lab Releases Debut 'Lost Landscapes' LP

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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) "Beautifully relentless stream of guitar sinews, bound together in layers like fabric that is therapeutic and mind-opening. Great sonic unearthing" - Big Takeover Magazine

"Drenched in decadent noise and bathed in originality" - Jammerzine

"10 lessons on the craft of noise guitar, telling the story with his fingers" - Noise Journal

"Pulling from a dictionary of space rock chords and melodies...His pot is filled with sonic winds, astral storms, and guitars for gazers and psychedelics" - Stereo Embers Magazine

"These are not songs but the musical equivalent of shifting hues within the same colour range and for all its strange slow burning dynamic, its beguiling and glacial passing, it is an album of intrigue, patience and grace, one to be absorbed by osmosis rather than to be understood or examined" - The Swindonian

"Combines improvisation, storytelling and teasing unearthly sounds out of effects-heavy guitars to conjure narratives of ethereal sounds. Meditative and haunting" - Get Into This

Seattle-based artist Lost Chocolate Lab has released his debut 'Lost Landscapes' album after earlier previewing two tracks - 'Squall' and 'Contents / Weightless'. From soft blankets of distortion to hazy clouds of noise, this music is a long-lost love letter to the first wave of shoegaze six-string pioneers, where guitars caterwaul in-collision with cascading waves of reverberation and acrobatic effects-pedal atmospherics.

Here we find the guitar-based lyricism of Godspeed You! Black Emperor or The Grateful Dead, combined with the barely-guitar noise-explorations of My Bloody Valentine, Jimi Hendrix and Flying Saucer Attack.

Lost Landscapes is over 80 minutes of spontaneous guitar composition, rippling-with-waves of effects pedal manipulation, bilious clouds of feedback, and laser-sharp tendrils of sonic-storytelling. Recorded over a long-weekend in Seattlein the 2017 winter, base-tracks were laid-down digitally in 2 sessions of single-pass improvisations. Revisited with a second improvised pass of solo guitar atmospherics, this gave birth to the 10 songs on this album. Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering, these sound sculptures harness hi-fidelity emotions.

Lost Chocolate Lab is the solo project of guitarist Damian Kastbauer, who formed this noise-making unit following the disbanding of his Minneapolis band - noisepop shoegaze pioneers February (Carrot Top/ Saint Marie Records) in 1997. Formed as a platform to reach further into the moment through mostly improvisational works leveraging long-form musical expression, Kastbauer has guided this music project through its various formats - from producing mind-bending noise, meditative ambient flute music with Julie Kastbauer, and full-on improvisational space jazz as a trio with Minneapolis drummer JP Hauer.

In its current incarnation, the basic elements of improvisation, instrumental storytelling, and guitar-based expression have been synthesized into a pure expression of the effects-heavy solo guitars, mucking-with the fabric of space and time. These works fundamentally aim to channel the "now" of improvisation and tap into the flow of possibility from fingertip to speaker cone. After setting up a system of playback that allows for the dynamic manipulation of guitar and effects in realtime, the goal is to let it flow and bottle the lightning for repeated playback.

The visual accompaniment to the full Lost Landscapes album was collected during a daily 9-5 commute across the water from Seattle to Bellevue. Soundtracked by evolving landscapes and inexorably linked to a time and place in urban Washington, processing was applied to the visuals in an effort to mirror the unfolding soundscapes that were being refined through a process of daily iteration. What began as a physical expression manifested in the swirling effect-pedal aesthetic of solo guitar performance was melded to abstract visuals in an audio-visual ballet of tonality and psychedelic imagery.

Lost Chocolate 'Lost Landscapes' is now available across online music stores and streaming platforms, as well as Bandcamp.

TRACK LIST
1. Contents / Weightless 10:13

2. Alien Lands 06:53

3. Squall 06:36 

4. Everything Is Heavy 03:43

5. Let's Fold Space 04:56

6. Night Drive 06:32 

7. Horseback Headspin 08:16 

8. We Start Over? 05:54

9. Dancing Towards Infinity 08:12 

10. This Could Be The End 09:39






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