The Myrrors
Archives, Vol. I: Lunar Halo

After the release of three LPs, each one more beautiful than the last, in the past three years ("Arena Negra," "Entranced Earth," "Hasta La Victoria") and after exploring the world of neo-psychedelia in all four of its dimensions (not counting the various minor releases and splits with Cult of Dom Keller and Centralstödet), it is somehow time for Myrrors to gather some archival material. In fact, the initiative had already gained momentum at the end of 2017 with the release of two LPs featuring old recordings in a very limited edition of only 50 copies each. However, one of these two has now been re-released in a joint operation by the usual pair of Cardinal Fuzz / Sky Lantern Records and was published on vinyl last January 26.

The recording in question, published in an LP called "Archives, Vol. I: Lunar Halo," concerns a live session that dates back to a rainy winter in 2014 at Café Passe in Tucson, Arizona, which would be the city from which this wonderful ensemble led by Nik Rayne comes, and on this occasion completed by Connor Gallaher (guitar), Cody Schwartz (bass), Miguel Urbina (viola), and Grant Beyschau (drums). Recorded live with production by Nik Rayne himself, the album was then mastered by Chris Hardman of Dead Sea Apes. The quality of the recording is decidedly very high, and as for the content, it constitutes only "partial" improvisation because, in reality, the two long tracks into which the release is divided ("Lunar Halo Pt. 1 and 2") are built on a theme already previously composed and structured by Nik Rayne and Grant Beyschau.

Explicitly inspired by the masters of psychedelia Trad, Gras och Stenar (aka Parson Sound, aka International Harvester, aka Harvester), the sound of this recording can indeed be considered a true minimalist composition in which ecstatic pulsations and Eastern drones follow each other in a ritualistic manner in an ideal sound journey from the depths of Arizona back to the Indus Valley and then down to the heart of East Africa. As if they were the distant songs of the first homo sapiens who walked this planet played backward at 33 revolutions per minute.