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The second collaboration from Charlie Butler and Mike Vest. A 1hour 19minute immersive piece fusing bass, guitars, synths, piano and drums, creating sonic still drones, space improvisation and deep meditations, with bursts of mid paced psychedelic rock dirges and haunting space capsule static.
Mike Vest is a maximum guitarist of countless bands, collaborations and solo ventures, past and present. 11Paranoias, Blown Out, Drunk In Hell, Mienakunaru, Melting hand and BONG. A master of fuzz drone tones, smashed guitars and eternity sustain, influenced by Takashi Mizutani, Fushitsusha, Tomoyuki Aoki
Charlie Butler is a Lanark based artist who began a series of solo releases via Weird Beard, Cruel Nature, Fuzzed Up & Astromoon, and Panurus Productions which explore psychedelic, heavy and hypnotic sounds. He is also a member of Cody Noon, Mothertrucker and Head Drop.
Mike Vest interview with Sun 13:
sun-13.com/2022/12/05/mike-vest-interview-its-great-to-see-albums-form-over-time/
"One track at a tick under 80 minutes, Capsule Bowed Space is a protracted space-rock odyssey orbiting the realms drone. If Bonnacons of Doom ever chose to play in the fields of long-form hysteria, then it may just sound something like Butler and Vest have conjured up here. No doubt the first of fine many releases from both artists this year, and the kind of sounds that suddenly make a shit day turn to gold."
- Sun 13 (
sun-13.com/2023/01/20/weirdo-rippers-3/)
"This is an album of two sides, both intermingled; haunting cosmic drone and free-ranging rock psychedelia, although the latter parts are few and far between, and used much less than the former, which are omnipresent. These psychedelic workouts that seem to occasionally burst into vibrant life offer a different tapestry for the listener to place questioningly next to the relentless underpinning drone, overlaying one with the other in search for deeper clues about the mysteries the music hides. Both aspects of the music are compelling, but when delivered in conjunction like they occasionally are here they become greater than the sum of their parts.
I hope you engage with this work like I have. Spend some time with it washing over you and disappear into its lovingly droning caress."
- Wonderbox Metail (
wonderboxmetal.com/2023/01/19/neutraliser-capsule-bowed-space-review/)
"If you like the idea of relaxation tapes but can't bear the thought of entering that shop that smells of incense to buy a CD with a white woman in lotus position on the front, you could do a lot worse than embarking on Neutraliser's trip."
- JR Moores, Columnfortably Numb, The Quietus
thequietus.com/articles/32657-carlton-melton-bruxa-maria-the-men-julian-cope