ace017: of "rocks will open" CD $13 / CD + cassette $18
Loren Chasse is responsible for a whole host of vital albums. He was a founding member of the Jewelled Antler label and has sparked so many great moments from the likes of Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Softwar, and of course his main solo guise, Of. For years this project has evolved into something of absolute magical grandeur.

"Rocks Will Open" is the latest opus in Chasse's catalog. The music on this album is as organic as it gets. Each tone, each sound feels like it has been culled directly from the Earth's crust. Gentle drones arc toward the hazy sunlight, flickering like distant birds sailing out over the sea. Between the ghostly echoes rises a cacacphony of plucked strings dancing toward oblivion. Loren Chasse's vision is perfectly expressed on "Rocks Will Open."

Limited to 500 copies.

Special Edition limited to 100 copies and includes exclusive cassette, "Morphological Echo."

tracklist:
1. rocks will open
2. trail of hornfel
3. coal seams
4. the paper raft
5. violets in the mountain have broken the rocks
6. oolithic feelings
7. longings on grey leaves
8. agate cups

Praise for OF/Loren Chasse:
"The music of The Sun and Earth Together is akin to a slowly turning mobile, as if it were giving off drones and tones as well as glinting with color and the reflections of light. As light shimmers, so does this music. As light dims, it dims too. The abstract sculptural shapes of this imagined mobile move in beautiful indeterminate patterns, much as the sounds Chasse conjures from disparate sources* as cymbalom and stones, autoharp and voice, bells and bowls, guitar and zither all drift delicately, and droningly, in phosphorescent clouds and constellations. This disc clocks in at 51 minutes, consisting of four tracks, each one longer than the last, from the three minute opener "Ignimbrites" to the 26 minute closing title track. All composed of tingling, whispered layers of lo-fi loveliness, gentle and graceful and ultimately glorious." - Aquarius

"At first, this might not appear to be something unique, but with greater attention, sounds start to reveal themselves, and Chasse's magic comes through. This would be a wonderful accompaniment to meditation or late night listening expeditions." - Charles Franklin