Leaper, by Gosheven

Leaper

by Gosheven

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t scytale startling in its strageness, the stark simplicity of the melodies. Favorite track: Island Of Unknown Joys.

Andrew PM Hunt A really fascinating record. Full of unusual tones and textures, Memory Failure is particularly beautiful in its slow logic. Favorite track: Memory Failure.

smallerclusters Seriously in love with this tape; beyond categories; I get chills at the rhythmic breakdown on "Island of..."; drone-y, stuttering guitar-based compositions, on autoreverse in my studio and in my kitchen. Favorite track: Island Of Unknown Joys.

abdonoval Fascinating and beautiful in the most unexpected ways. Favorite track: Whisper Of The Valley Breeze.

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1.	Island Of Unknown Joys 04:37	buy track
2.	Whisper Of The Valley Breeze 01:59	buy track
3.	Descent 01:30	buy track
4.	Well Tuned Dreams 03:46	buy track
5.	Levitation 01:00	buy track
6.	Memory Failure 03:55	buy track
7.	Excluded And Abused 03:21	buy track
8.	Ascent 00:59	buy track
9.	The Bad Spirit (Who Made Me Do It) 02:28	buy track
10.	Sublime Fragility 04:46	buy track
11.	Waves Of Innocence 04:42	buy track
12.	Unbalanced Holiness 01:02	buy track

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Gosheven is the solo project of Budapest’s Balint Szabo, a musician who has developed his guitars voice against it’s typical confinement. Where the fundamentally out-of-tune Western tuning has withheld some musicians in its history, Gosheven has researched and concerned himself with just intonation and other non-typical tuning systems for this debut release on Opal Tapes. Balancing blunted poetics and an intimate self-analysis of his place in sexual society, guitar, voice and elegant processing tell a story of metamorphosis and realisation of what is important in our short lives.

Featured tunings: just intonations by Wendy Carlos (#2, #10) and Ben Johnston (#11); La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano tuning (#1, #4); Japanese koto tuning (#7); Banda Linda horns tuning (#9); Pythagorean tuning (#6), Meantone temperament (#12), Just intonation (#3, #5, #8)

I should have become really something
Like a male predator
Full of lucrative lust and firm beliefs
Based on persistency and commitment.

But I have become just the opposite
Strengthening my weakness
Laughing and weeping day by day
To avoid interpreting the so-called facts.

For now I withdraw myself to my mother's womb
To suck my thumb with great care
Settling in the ever-beating
Unfathomable innocence.

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released May 5, 2017

Written, produced and recorded by Balint Szabo.

Special thanks to: Rebeka Rácz, Krisztián Kristóf, Márton Kristóf, Márk Bartha, Martin Mikolai, Ábris Gryllus, UH Fest, Ata Ebtekar (Sote), Oren Ambarchi, Stephen Bishop and Gábor Lázár

Cover photo: Rebeka Rácz

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