Motion Sickness of Time Travel.

January 21, 2011, 2 comments

Motion Sickness of Time Travel is the solo project of Rachel Evans of LaGrange, Georgia, who happens not only to be the wife of Grant Evans, but also the co-runner of Hooker Vision, the label we introduced earlier today, and together with Grant the other half of Quiet Evenings. However, it appears fair to say that it’s the MSOTT moniker that reveals her most unique and creative side, at least at the moment. Her initial release Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious had originally been dropped by Digitalis on tape in an edition of 80 in the middle of 2010, but now the album has finally been blessed with an LP version on the same label. It’s selling pretty fast and is already sold out on Digitalis and Boomkat – right now, Forced Exposure seems to be the best bet. So don’t lose any more time, as Seeping Through… is, without any exaggeration, among the best pieces of drone-infused psychedelia I’ve ever stumbled across. Sublime soundscapes, slowly meandering synth patterns that are informed by kraut and kosmische as well as minimal electronics from the past three decades, and above all captivating layers of Rachel’s beautifully ethereal voice. This is a perfect piece of music all along, so perfect actually that it confuses me how it could manage to hide from my attention for almost half a year. This is aural magic.

If the vinyl should be sold out as well, you should check MSOTT’s bandcamp, as Rachel has recently started to put her entire oeuvre up there, and she’ll make available for download everything that’s out of stock physically. And in any case, it appears we won’t have to wait too long for new gorgeousness to emerge out of her head: This week, the new video for A Drug-Induced Phenomenon has been revealed, another masterpiece that is set to be on MSOTT’s forthcoming cassette A Disembodied Voice in the Darkness, to be put out very soon via Teosinte.

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel – Telepathy (taken from Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious)

By Henning