Label: Reverb Worship
Format: CDR
Country: UK
Released:2011
Genre: Electronic, Folk
Style: Folk, Lo-fi, Dark Ambient, Abstract
Download:
http://depositfiles.com/files/px7e87vkt/Black_Church-Vawan-CDR-Limited_Edition-2011-FWYH.rar
Trackisting:
1. Sugar Down
2. Dakota
3. Easy Together
4. Gidget
5. Yours To Miss
6. Knee Deep, Fast Asleep
7. Skull Core
8. Wave Away
9. KALAKASI
10. Collect Yourself, Start Playing
11. Some Time
12. Tomorrow's Secrets Today
13. Diamond Sleeve
14. MPG
15. Sunny Winters
From Label:
"VAWAN" is a fifteen track compilation of long gone and very hard to find US cassette only releases which appeared on Living Tapes, Tapemancy Recordings and Cavelife.Black Church is Los Angeles based musician Kim Free.I first came across the music of Black Church last year.Her music reminded me of the Cocteau Twins, The XX and music from the 4AD label.Kim and myself struck up an email friendship resulting in the this "VAWAN" album.The tracks are compiled from "Madeline Blue" (2008), "Less You" (2009), "YxY" (2010) and "Down With Hades" (2010).Kim wanted to include an unreleased track at the end of the album to say goodbye."VAWAN" is the only cd release and will be the final Black Church recording before Kim moves on to a new project.This cd is available now in an edition of 50 hand numbered copies.
Comments:
So I was in Los Angeles in the Summer of 2010 for the first time and my friend suggested bringing me to Amoeba records since he was showing off Sunset Blvd. Now, I had heard about this place but didn't realize how amazing it was to be inside of this place. I didn't subject my friend to my endless hours of browsing I could've done and instead went back the next day on my own. Needless to say, one of the gems I found in this store was Black Church's Heel cassette tape. I knew nothing of this small artist but the cover art drew me toward it like a moth toward light.
Back in my hotel room at the Los Angeles Athletic Club which is a hotel made in the early 1920's or 1930's that you can imagine Slimer from Ghostbuster floating down the hallways. Dim wattage light bulbs, small doorways, low ceilings, rooms with a creepy old-timey feel. I mean, here's an image but even this is way too bright. In any case, I wanted to listen to this cassette tape but I was far from home, so I called up the Black Church myspace page and was blown away. It was the perfect music for my stay in this hotel and for whenever I need a hauntingly good ambient time.
Black Church was a project by Sunny Winters and she released several cassette tapes under this moniker before moving on to become 'Kim Free'. As a posthumously release, Vawan was released on CDR. I didn't know about this until it was way too late and now they're sold out. In any case, I'll be following her actions for a while.
http://lasfine.com/2011/07/16/black-church/
