Experimental guitarist Guy Blakeslee will release his Extravision album on Leaving Records.
Blakeslee self-released Extravision in 2022. Since then, he has spoken about its genesis. On March 13, 2020, while walking across the street, he was struck by a car. Upon regaining consciousness, he found both the outer world and his inner world suddenly transformed.
As lockdowns took effect, it was immediately clear that the brain injuries Blakeslee sustained had not only affected his vision but altered his consciousness and would inevitably affect his music-making.
A majority of the album’s tracks notably do not feature any discernible guitar—”the songs functioning as emotive, drone-based exercises in texture and duration,” we’re told.
The goal of the album is to induce in the listener a “trance-like state,” to inaugurate the conditions under which time might function “differently.”
Tracklisting
01. CELESTIAL RADIANCE
02. BEFORE THERE WAS A MOON
03. FROM A MELTED PLACE
04. WOUNDED HEALER
05. POOLS OF MERCURY
06. ARCTURIAN WHISPERS
07. IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
08. PISCES MOON
09. ARCTURIAN GAMELAN
10. SPIRALING DOWN
11. HALCYON REVELATIONS
12. SONG OF SATURN
13. EXTRAVISION
14. SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN (BONUS)
EXTRAVISION LP is scheduled for October 18 release. Meanwhile, you can stream “CELESTIAL RADIANCE” in full via the player below and pre-order here.
