{"product_id":"sige026","title":":  (Records \u0026 LPs)","description":"Formed in New Mexico in 2009, Mesa Ritual is the duo of William FowlerCollins and Raven Chacon. In their five year existence they have created a concise,extremely focused, and inimitable body of work consisting of one EP, and this, their first fulllength album. Considering the rarified nature of their activities, the resultant sounds wouldsuggest a process of patient sonic reductionism, whereby only the most essential elementsare allowed to remain in the completed works. These skeletal compositions expose a corethat is both vibrant and severe. Much like the environment from which they originated, thesounds conjured by Mesa Ritual on their debut full length are simultaneously alluring andforbidding.O ver the course of the album's nine tracks a deceivingly spare palette of sounds areimplemented: sporadic gasps of crackling circuitry, arid washes of impenetrable static,dilapidated field recordings, and insistent cycles of rhythmic thunder. Through a deft andcontinual recombination of these elemental pieces, an interwoven series of fevered desertdreams are invoked in the listener - twisting and looming over the vast horizon, and thenreceding as new facets of the evolving storm supersede. Balancing on the precipice betweenpurgatorial stasis and nightmarish descent, the album evokes the animalistic unease offinding oneself in familiar surroundings which have been uncannily altered beyond recognition.A tense listen though it may be, the album is not without its own form of subtle andserene beauty. In the midst of swirling sandstorms of agitated electronics there beats asteady heart, unwavering in purpose, poised in harmony. Perhaps it is this foundation of apervasive living spirit veiled within the work that invites repeated visits into the outwardlyhostile environments that Mesa Ritual devise.TRACK LISTING:1. Procession I (3:56)2. Procession II (5:01)3. Procession III (2:23)4. Procession IV (2:07)5. Procession V (3:00)6. Procession VI (2:19)7. Procession VII (4:10)8. Low Mountain (2:01)9. Procession VIII (12:00)  ","brand":"besvinyl.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42123788812438,"sku":"SIGE026","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.besvinyl.com\/products\/sige026","provider":"besvinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}