โ bespoke hemp paper jackets silkscreened by Mark Rice (Goatmother Industrial) using black + custom "iridescent peach" ink
โ limited 100 copies
Includes digital pre-order of swamp prayer.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment itโs released.
Pre-order of swamp prayer. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment itโs released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases May 14, 2024
$1USD or more
test pressing 12" vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
โ black vinyl, center labels hand-stamped with silver ink
โ recycled paper jackets, hand-stamped with silver ink
โ inserts - test prints of album artwork (note that condition of inserts is varied)
โ limited 5 copies
Includes digital pre-order of swamp prayer.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment itโs released.
โIn the back of the throat there is a subterranean river that holds you, humming towards the caveโs end. This end is a liminal mirror reflecting the contours of your voice. The mirror shows how โwhen brought to certain aquatic depthsโ unheard of limbs and wondrous branches are prone to sprout from your voice. Blind sibyls, your voiceโs branches climb towards the surface, in search of light and warmth. After the great drought, your voiceโs limbs persevere. They stand naked, pulsating in the purple that lies underneath grey. Your voiceโs limbs erect themselves as monuments to air, kin among the deafening night. The water level is now only tall enough to keep your voiceโs core below. Your voice, fed by the swamp, cradled by duckweed, wrapped in horse tail, has become a secret organ. Your voice palpitates and releases twin echoes that undulate, to smokeโs rhythm, in the afterglow. Intricately connected by labyrinth to soil and moon, through the water liliesโ roots, your voice weaves an underweb that flickers like the eye of a flame. Your voice sediments the entwined veils of miracle and prayer.โ
- Marta Nรบรฑez Pouzols, October 2023
credits
releases May 14, 2024
taupe set xl is the devotional sound project of Kristen Soller, a Miami-based artist and hypnotist of the Philippine diaspora. Kristen illuminates the subterranean and oneiric landscapes of imagination, spirit, and memory โ giving voice to the personal and ancestral stories of grief and desire that emerge in the process.
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All music by Kristen Soller
Audio finalized by Glyn Maier
Cover photo by Jenn Huynh
Design by Joe Bastardo
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