Red Panda. Ferrimagnetic. CDR (out of print) please click here to download from archive.org The music on this release has existed spread across about 12 cassette tapes for nearly ten years. Red Panda has been founded in order to document these recordings. The music was not written as "red panda", in fact it wasn't FOR anything. These are bedroom recordings from 1995 and 1996 done on a busted 4 track (3 track), a home stereo, and a 4 track (all 4 tracks actually worked). One interesting side effect that happened is that the song "Cyanic Pull" could not be found on any of the cassettes, but was eventually located on a very scratched CDR. Nothing could be done to repair the song, so it has been left with skips and scratches intact. There are also moments throughout the record where the tape bleed is evidenced by backwards detuned voices, and radio static (a side effect of home stereo recording). In the end Ferrimagnetic is a late night record full of pastoral hiss and hum, and shimmering guitars. For fans of early Flying Saucer Attack, Azusa Plane, and Too Pure era Seefeel. 1. Valerie No. 4 2. Cyanic Pull 3. Wish 4. This Subtle Gravity 5. Solstice 6. Nightwatch 7. Here 8. Essence recorded variously @ shadowal and friend stereo, 1995-1996 mastered @ scarcelight, 2004 |: cover by Cataract Press this recording is dedicated to the thursday friends. one of whom lives in another state leading an alternative lifestyle, one who spends spare time documenting life in the rural south, one who has arms as big as some folks legs, one who disappeared under mysterious circumstances surrounding missing money, and one who would later become accelera deck. who said nostalgia was out of style ?

Reviews

Given how contemporary it sounds, it's hard to believe the source material for this collection of blurred guitar etchings is bedroom recordings from the mid-‘90s. Culled from 12 cassette tapes and a CDR, the eight pieces were recorded by Red Panda over a nearly ten year period. Red Panda's identity isn't revealed though one guesses it might be Chris Jeely (aka Accelera Deck), considering that guitar is the dominant sound source. Not conventional guitar, of course, but guitar that in the right hands turns malleable enough to generate blistered meditations (“Valerie No. 4”), crystalline ambiance (“Here,” “Wish”), and haunted timbres (“Nightwatch,” “This Subtle Gravity”). With its angelic shadings and whistling whorls, “Cyanic Pull” might be the most captivating piece, in part because of the skipping clicks that flutter across its ringing shimmer and plummeting wails (the skips, incidentally, caused by unrepairable scratches on the severely scratched CDR). One anomalous moment occurs amidst the cycling washes and cascading ripples of “Solstice,” specifically a propulsive rhythm pattern, conspicuous for being the singular instance of such on an otherwise ambient collection. Despite the album's scattered origins, a uniform sound coheres with its ghostly murmurings revealing a melancholy core deep within the cavernous blur. Textura