VCSR - Summer 1979
Released: June 12 Summer 1979 is something of an oddity as far as its current existence. The album was originally recorded all the way back in the summer 1979 (which explains the title) and sat on a tape among many others in a box for decades. The tape was discovered in 2017 and continued to sit in obscurity for several more years until a connection could be made to the original artist Bil Vermette and finally received a proper release on Isohyet Records in June of this year. The album itself feels like a time capsule in some ways but also timeless and current in others. The mood is very much an ambient and rather cosmic affair as we listen to pure analog tones rise, fall, waver, wobble, and shine along with the ever present and dusty tone of a tape recorded with a four track reel-to-reel recorder. Each track bears the name of the album with a small variation that vaguely describes a certain aspect of that track. The descriptions feel intentionally blurry, giving only ...
