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  Sax-driven, psychedelic noise / free jazz from the duo of Max Julian Eastman (Tantric Death) and multi-instrumentalist Kelly Koistinen. Glitter C33 tape packaged in a clear norelco case with 4-panel insert printed on pink card stock. Limited edition of 25 copies.
  
  Audio / Art by The Pale Moon
  Max Julian Eastman: tapes, stylus, sampler, mix
  Kelly Koistinen: saxophone, organ, taishogoto
  
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  Reviewed in Vital Weekly, Issue 1301:
  
  To quote my friend Barrie “The new Pale Moon album is a bit of all right”. But, of course, Barrie never said this. He’s not into this kind of music. His loss as ‘Ilmarë’ is the kind of album that gives you faith in the system. It’s filled with the type of disjointed melodies and drones that make a specific type of person smile. That person is me, and I think it might be you too.
  Effectively the album is just two 15+ minute slabs of noise and disorientation. The first side, ‘Mulieris Spiritus’, is mainly based on audio disarray. At times it feels like Max Julian Eastman and Kelly Koistinen are pulling against each other to create the most atonal soundscapes they can. It's glorious. You never know what’s going to happen next. They come together from time to time, but mostly it just feels like two people doing their own thing together. This last sentence seems to sum up the majority of my nights out with my friends from school before I realised what I was looking for. But I digress. So, imagine my shock and delight when during the opening salvo of ‘Umbra Ex Varda’ when Eastman started mixing in melodic music. It was jarring and took me a while to get back into the groove of the album. When I was getting into this new style, Koistinen started playing some outlandish tasishogoto, or I think that’s what it was, which echoed a slightly melodious ‘Mulieris Spiritus’.
  At its heart, ‘Ilmarë’ is an album that will delight fans of doom jazz as much as lovers of avant-garde/experimental. Koistinen’s saxophone work is second to none. Huge, dank blasts are played throughout. They make you question the life choices that led you to this moment. I’d imagine living a Pale Moonset is devastating too. The album comes into its own when you allow it to fade out of your concentration zone slowly, and then ‘BAM’ you get pulled in by a tone or motif, and it’s all-consuming again. Since listening to this album a few times, I’ve tried to get people who aren’t into this music to listen to it. I’ve had limited success. I don’t hold it against them, but it's slightly annoying that they don’t have the patience to make it through such a captivating album. Hopefully, this will be the first in a line of Pale Moon releases as Eastman and Koistinen have hit on to something that works incredibly well whilst not sounding like thing else. (NR)
  
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