Tommy Awards
Sessions
Nuearth Conservatory

Words by Dr Rob
Test Pressing, Reviews, Dr Rob, Tommy Awards, Magic Feet, Stockholm, Sweden, Nuearth Conservatory, Nuearth Kitchen, Sessions

Four untitled tracks from Stockholm duo, Tommy Awards, that began as a live jam for Made Like A Tree, released on Nuearth Kitchen`s more reclined sister, Nuearth Conservatory; both labels run by Jeremy Grant and Cody Morrison out of L.A. and Seattle.

With two previous E.P.s on Craig Bratley`s Magic Feet, that by turns painted a mid-Western desert of the Stones and Califone, then paid homage to New Order, The Cure, a Café del Mar classic by Bombay Hotel and Hot Toddy`s “Summer Daze”, only the hypnotic Raga of “Little Man” really hinted at what was to come.

Suspense falls like rain. A pizzicato pulse quickens, and tablas rattle, in an edgy gothic cobbled dark. Twin Peaks tremolos cry. A lonesome whistle blows. Jarmusch`s “Dead Man”. Young`s “Dead Man”. Images cut back and forth, which is the present, which is the past, on a silver mirror journey.

Robert Smith`s “Primary” splinters into Robin Guthrie`s reverb and shimmer. Cathedral illumination. Teardrop on the fire.

Animals caught in infra-red. Sonar echoes and a cavernous bounce. Higher than the sun delay in relay.

Cosmic effervescence. A cyclical vibration, a temir komuz (iron mouth) on the edge of Tangerine Dream`s “Zeit”. Nuel`s “Trance Mutation”. Musiccargo`s “Harmonie”. Pagan Techno. Full Moon gazing. A dawn ride home.

As I watched innocence sleep, I imagined her without clothes.

A sunrise of pink mountains, white sky.

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