Peter Wright
Pariahs sing om

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Three CD retrospective collecting two complete albums ('Pariahs sing om', 'Catch a spear as it flies'), significant excerpts from 'Duna' and 'A tiny camp in the wilderness' and various unreleased tracks.  None of this material has ever been available outside of small cd-r runs.

"...as you might expect it's all totally captivating and dreamy and lovely. All three discs here are overflowing with warm drones, subtle shifting soundscapes, vast expanses of creaking, groaning, drifting sound, soft and shimmery, sweet and slow moving, guitars hover weightless in dense clouds of chordal warmth, single notes float and flutter, while clusters of notes get smeared into still more layers of drone and rumble. Gorgeously subtle, every track deep and dense, sparkling and crystalline, lustrous and so lovely, resplendent with muted colors, like watching clouds float across the sky, or watching leaves drift down stream, this is deeply personal, totally captivating ambience that is most certainly the equal of his more well known peers. Fans of the drone cd-r underground (CPSIP, Digitalis, PseudoArcana, atc.), as well as the more academic side of minimal dronology (Chalk, Coleclough, Niblock, Berry) should most definitely make it a point to further explore Wright's constantly evolving, gorgeous and mysterious soundworld." (Aquarius records)

 "The finest in underground free noise / drone...mostly from New Zealand but all around the world as well. For those of you new to the CpsiP label, imagine classic Siltbreeze (Dead C, etc.) mixed with Jewelled Antler (Thuja, Blithe Sons etc.), dark and deep listening that sometimes verges on all out noise, but more often than not remains subtle experiments in avant drone and abstract sound." (Aquarius Records)

 "A lush soundscape of barely-there field recordings, subtle shadings of grey rumbles and black ambience, keening chimes smeared into lengthened sonic shadows, shifting overtones and subtle shimmers, all very melancholy and emotional, dreamy and otherworldly.   ...[This is] drone at its most airy and melodic. As if actual pop songs were smashed into pieces, then melted down into a dizzying swirl of lush gasoline rainbow swoon, smeared in a thick paste on a pane of glass and held up to the full moon, letting muted blues and greens, and subtle bursts of prismatic sound drift through." (Aquarius Records)

"It’s been a good year for those seeking resurrection of lost and limited releases. Never mind the activity of any other labels, Providence Rhode Island’s Last Visible Dog alone has rescued most of MCMS’s catalog, Pylon’s “Not Cobras,” LSD-march’s “Suddenly, Like Flames,” and now Peter Wright from out of print limbo. ...In listening to this work one can hear the foundations built on in the intervening time by Birchville Cat Motel, Black Forest / Black Sea, and Double Leopards to name but a few." (foxy digitalis)