{"id":22205,"date":"2020-11-25T12:07:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=22205"},"modified":"2022-01-08T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T22:02:38","slug":"arc00211","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/arc00211\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarktica &#038; Black Tape For A Blue Girl: Eating Rose Petals (name-your-price) (Digital)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 227px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=618292212\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless>  <a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/rose>Eating Rose Petals (name-your-price) <\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. Fleeting Rose Petals 18:59<br \/>\n2. Eating Rose Petals 10:52<br \/>\n3. Valley of the Roses 08:06\n<\/div>\n<p><B>Eating Rose Petals<\/B> marks the first collaboration between synthesist Sam Rosenthal (aka Black Tape for a Blue Girl) and vocalist\/multi-instrumentalist Jon DeRosa (aka Aarktica), merging their respective darkwave, dreamwave, ethereal styles into a floating cosmic requiem for deep reflection and introspective journeying. Veterans in their genres, they\u2019ve created music for a combined 65 years. While this 38-minute release may be their first musical collaboration, Sam and Jon\u2019s relationship began nearly 30 years ago when Jon\u2019s earliest musical projects \u2014 the dark folk-oriented Fade and Dead Leaves Rising \u2014 opened for Projekt bands making their first East Coast appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a new time and place, they reconnect to create a tender and melancholically uplifting opus.<\/p>\n<p><BR><U>Sam writes:<\/U><\/p>\n<p><BR>When I heard Aarktica&#8217;s \u201cEating Rose Petals\u201d on the <B>Mareaci\u00f3n<\/B> album I immediately loved it. I loved the sound of Jon\u2019s voice, the mood, the spaces he imagined; I imagined it would be great music for Holotropic Breathwork. However to minimize distraction while journeying, Stanislav Grof recommends tracks without English lyrics. I resolved that by making myself a version of Jon\u2019s track where I ran it backwards \u2014 it provided a great mood for my journey. Back in the consensus world, I thought, \u201cThe only thing that would make this better would be to more of it!\u201d I emailed Jon with my idea, asking for audio stems of his individual instruments and vocals. Jon recorded a new wordless vocal melody which he sang to the backward version of the track. I brought these elements into my studio and extended the song with processing and my own electronics.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Track 1 = my new version. With extended ethereal intro and ending utilizing bits of Jon\u2019s performance and my electronics. In the middle is my processed version of Jon\u2019s backwards track.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Track 2 = Aarktica\u2019s original recording<\/p>\n<p><BR>Track 3 = a reworking of the intro segment of track 1, extended with my additional electronics.<\/p>\n<p><BR><U>Jon writes<\/U><\/p>\n<p><BR>I tend to be hyper-aware of the sometimes seemingly trivial &#8220;snapshots&#8221; I experience throughout my days that sometimes stay with me so vividly and poignantly long after the moment is gone. Sometimes it\u2019s a moment in nature, the way the light is hitting a scenic valley so perfectly&#8230; or sometimes it&#8217;s the expression on someone&#8217;s face in the context of a time and place. In this case, I wrote \u201cEating Rose Petals\u201d to commemorate a beautiful relationship with a dear friend of mine, a very supernatural woman I worked with for many years in the world of plant medicines. As a romance bloomed, I always was sure to keep fresh flowers at the bedside for her. One morning, I awoke to find her in the gentle morning light playfully pulling rose petals from one of the flowers and eating them. This beautiful &#8220;snapshot&#8221; stayed with me long after the romance and the moment were gone.<\/p>\n<p><BR>I hadn\u2019t been in touch with Sam in close to two decades; we reconnected last year in Los Angeles when Steve Roach passed through to perform. It was some time after this that he approached me with the idea of reworking the original &#8220;Eating Rose Petals.&#8221; I had been listening to Sam&#8217;s music since I was around 13 years old, and always connected with the way he conveyed emotion through electronics, so it was an invitation I was very open to. The result of that collaboration &#8220;Fleeting Rose Petals&#8221; seems to capture the best of our respective talents, and one that compliments the original composition.<\/p>\n<h2>Artist bios<\/h2>\n<p><BR>Black Tape For A Blue Girl released their first gothic\/ethereal\/ambient album in 1986; their 12 studio albums revolve around the songwriting and electronics of founder Sam Rosenthal. Sam runs the Projekt Records label that released Eating Rose Petals.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Aarktica is the long-running ambient\/atmospheric project of Jon DeRosa; since 1998 they\u2019ve released a diverse catalog of music on 9 albums. While DeRosa is the sole permanent member, Aarktica featured a number of musicians and collaborators throughout the project&#8217;s lifespan. Aarktica is known for primarily using guitars \u2014 along with mostly organic instruments like brass, strings, harmoniums and voices \u2014 to create its unique textural sound. Aarktica&#8217;s sonically diverse audio explorations span decades, straddling the lines of shoegaze and ambient, jazz and drone, to electro-pop and post-rock. 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