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Cycles
LP $27.00

03/07/2025  

BING 216 


MP3 $7.99

03/07/2025 657628452072 

BING 216 


FLAC $8.99

03/07/2025 657628452072 

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The world of Cycles is supine and aquatic. Sounds echo within sounds, which encircle melodies like small creatures gathering. As both a record and a series of short films, Haroula Rose & Oliver Hill have created a friendly, multi-faceted planéte sauvage. 

Written & recorded in one torrentially rainy week at home in Los Angeles, the music explores the acoustics of the tactile world - sounds coarse and smooth, heavy and light, the smell of wet terrain after a long drought, a long deep breath coming up from dark water to the surface. Cycles presents earthy, bubbling spaces which are womblike and nourishing - not surprisingly, Cycles was conceived and completed in tandem with the birth of their first child.

Instruments were splayed on the rug and a set of creative constraints were put into place: no words, no drums, no guitars, yes dynamics, yes field recordings around the house, yes fades and slowly overlapping layers. And of course, bells. The result is a series of mercurial and cinematic scene changes - stepping through doors, popping out windows, crossing into and out of interior and exterior settings.  

Haroula & Oliver bring together dovetailing artistic histories across media - as a filmmaker, Haroula’s feature directorial debut Once Upon a River went to over 40 festivals internationally taking home 19 awards, and her sophomore feature All Happy Families, starring Josh Radnor and executive produced by Michael Shannon, saw a theatrical release in AMCs last fall. Oliver wrote the score and original songs - that soundtrack will be released later this year.   

Oliver has written string arrangements for artists such as Magdalena Bay, Dirty Projectors, Helado Negro, and Broken Bells, and has released critically acclaimed records with his bands Pavo Pavo (“quietly poetic … exploring the stuff of life, love, and loss with a clear head,” Pitchfork) and Coco ("bold, striking pop that seems to be filtered in from another dimension," CLASH.)

Haroula & Oliver’s accompanying films move through a variety of animation techniques, from the maternal figure that floats through the air in Swarm, to the morphing psychedelia of Humanist and the abstracted sonograms of Elemental  - what wraps all these elements together is a sense of birth and regeneration.

The charcoal artwork and vinyl packaging was made by Haroula & Oliver the same week as recording. Please enjoy the record in headphones or however will most immerse you in its three-dimensionality.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Lifeblood

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  2. #2 Swarm

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  3. #3 Embers

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  4. #4 Saltrise

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  5. #5 Dear soup

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  6. #6 Elemental

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  7. #7 Up to harbor country

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  8. #8 Dear soup octagon

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  9. #9 Humanist

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  10. #10 Epilogue

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