RST, by RST

RST

by RST

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bcb723 True story: in January, there was a large snowfall followed by an ice storm freezing everything in place. I was going out of my mind with cabin fever so decided to walk at 2am to clear my head. I played this album on repeat & walked for like 5 miles on the ice. It looked, felt and sounded like I was the only person on some alien landscape. It was pretty fucked up. Got home, passed out & kind of pushed the memory away. But that haunted sense of isolation this music evokes is still scary as shit. Favorite track: Silent Tristero.

Cody Drasser Free-flowing ambient/drone guitar psychedelia that inhabits a full spectrum of sound ranging from dark and claustrophobic to the idyllic and expansive and everything in between. Reminiscent of previous impressive Utech output by Oikos or the more atmospheric side of Horseback. Contemplative, wandering and meditatively divine guitar conjurations that are as blissful as they are disquieting.

captainfez Super drones and Pynchon references? *chef's kiss* Favorite track: Silent Tristero.

julesdesmond Nice work as always Andrew. My favourite NZ drone artist. x Favorite track: Silent Tristero.

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Double LP in a heavy offset wide-spine sleeve with interior flood and color insert. Black and Translucent Purple vinyl.

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Art by Kevin Gan Yuen.

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	1.	Infinity Loves Continuum 05:20
	2.	Silent Tristero 06:53
	3.	Touchin' on Space 05:19
	4.	Wave Motion 05:26
	5.	Pure Spectrum 07:34
	6.	Strawberry Rainbow 04:22
	7.	Ultimate Immaterial 06:06
	8.	Sun Downers 05:08
	9.	Pure Synthesis 03:41
	10.	Vibration - Beams, Rays 07:31
	11.	Rocket To Ruin 05:18

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New Zealand based sound artist RST (Andrew Moon) has been chasing the horizon for twenty-five years, single-mindedly pursuing something simple, essential, and finely honed: the possibilities afforded when you step outside of the grid of the song, and let the electric guitar find its own harmony.

RST’s music is singular for its ability to tease untold riches from a limited set of parameters. On his new album – appropriating the essential primal rock and roll elements of beaten guitars, cheap effects and loud amps – Moon lets the room sing, creating an album of reflective darkness, of quiet moments that unfold with slowly-encroaching unease. There are moments of great beauty, too: the vibrating halation of “Wave Motion” is numinous, intoxicating; the subsequent “Pure Spectrum”, conversely, is isolated and cold.

With song titles inspired by Sun Ra and Charles Gayle among others, and signature space blues vibes cranked, the whole thing plays out like classic RST: a blasted soundscape, cratered and marked with debris, a fug of hazy cloudforms and driftworks.

RST is a monumental double album. Moon’s defining document.

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released June 7, 2019

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