Steven Wilson

Limited edition double album on 180 grams black vinyl in gatefold picture sleeve.

Please note that this version does NOT contain the bonus 10inch Haze Shrapnel.

Following a series of vinyl editions of the previously released bass communion albums Ghosts on Magnetic Tape, Bass Communion II and Haze Shrapnel, Tonefloat presents its first release containing new (solo) recordings by Steven Wilson's ongoing experiments with drones and ambient music, and sounds in general. Litany is taken from new bass communion recordings using choral/vocal samples and looping techniques. These experiments may lead to a full album at some stage, but in the meantime about 23 minutes of work in progress will be out late july as a 2-track 12inch EP.

The ep comes in a stylish bass communion cardboard type sleeve designed by Carl Glover and will be available in a limited edition of 1000 copies on black 180 grams vinyl. The coloured vinyl version has now sold out.

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Beautifully recorded within the natural ambience of Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City on 27th Feb 2008, this is a collaboration between Steven Wilson on guitar/laptop, and the noise / improv group PIG. Originally released on vinyl only by Important Records in 2008.

Continuum, the collaboration between Steven Wilson's Bass Communion and VidnaObmana, issue part one of their collaboration in a beautiful Lasse Hoile designed oversized card sleeve. The CD is a limited edition of 1,000 copies, and features three 20 minute long pieces of richly melancholic textural music, a must for all BC and VO fans.

Remastered 2 CD reissue of Bass Communion II with the long unavailable Bass Communion III (previously only available as a CDR) on the second disc. Comes in Japanese style thick card gatefold mini LP sleeve (now the standard packaging for all Bass Communion releases).

The brand new 2008 CD by Bass Communion features 4 layered guitar drone pieces, 2 noisy and 2 transcendently beautiful. Aquarius Records say "..expansive and delicate crystalline soundscapes, minimal and hushed, deep and resonant, deep tones, layered low end, all deftly assembled into a mysterious otherworldly droneworld. Instead of hushed and whispery, the opener here is caustic and crumbling, a field of ragged, distorted, blown out tones, a layered expanse of grinding buzz, but beneath it, angelic melodies shimmer and hum, transforming the track into something subtly beautiful, a sprawling prickly sonic squall wrapped around a dreamlike core."

Now repressed as a double disc including the full length Andrew Liles reconstruction, which SW described as being "even creepier than the original!", this is the third full length album by SW's Bass Communion project and is a one hour work divided into 5 distinct sections. The album is inspired by alleged tape recordings of the dead communicating with the living world, paranormal research most famously practised by scientist Konstantine Raudive in the 1970's. This is a spectral and brooding album, rich with dark clouds of sound, beautiful textures, creepy drones and eerie crackling. It is housed in a beautiful Japanese style thick card gatefold mini LP sleeve. SW considers this to be one of the finest recordings he has ever made.

The latest album by SW's ambient / drone project Bass Communion is a 2 disc set containing both stereo CD and 5.1 / high resolution stereo DVDA. Packaged in a beautiful thick card gatefold sleeve, with an additional 8 page booklet. A dark and spectral 40 minute work.

180 gram heavyweight double vinyl edition of this acclaimed dark and brooding SW solo recording. Black vinyl, housed in a lavish gatefold sleeve. Also includes a previously unavailable 16-minute piece on Side 4.

Bass Communion is the name SW gives to recordings he has been making since 1994 in an ambient and/or electronic vein. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture and are generated from processing recordings of real instrumental performances. This is the first CD from 1998 including a 25 minute piece based on Robert Fripp's soundscapes.

Please note that this is an ep with different material from the CD of the same title that was released the previous year.