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Introduction to Phase 5

by Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony

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    Base Materialism is now defunct and it seems the founder has turned into a shithead so this is the only way to get this album now. Shit was good, I was proud of it, it even got a little review in the Quietus. I've got like 4 copies left over so get on it.

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This was originally released on Base Materialism, but then the guy who runs that went a bit fash and the label isn't running any more. I don't actually any digital copies of this so if anyone who bought it downloaded it, feel free to make bootlegs. It was on the quietus' best tapes of 2021 round-up if that kind of thing impresses you.

sabotage the capital of the demiurge;

seize the means of transcendence;

collage scintilla;

experience aleatoric gnosis;

"Recorded in their Cardiff flat with nothing but a four-track and a laptop, Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony aka Charlie Miles conjures something positively extra-terrestrial on Introduction To Phase 5. On opener ‘Personal Statement’, falsetto vocals softly float around jazzy guitar chords, the odd components combining into something disarmingly moving. The later tracks go further into trippy, sometimes even math-rock tinged jams – think somewhere between Emeralds’ Mark McGuire and Bill Orcutt and you’ll get the gist. Miles took tape loops of free jazz drumming as the starting point to build their own personal jam band, and the beats splatter across the mix rather than acting as a centre of gravity. The lo-fi production is an opportunity rather than a restriction, weird quirks allowed to shine through and take on an otherworldly quality. Throughout the vocals keep coming in, rarely comprehensible but adding intimacy to this imaginative, resourceful as hell yet warm hearted album."

--Daryl Worthington (The Quietus)

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released February 4, 2021

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