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Artist: ALLES WIE GROSS Title: Vertonung
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM55CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 8/21/00
***The debut album from this Munich chamber rock quintet led by Michael Heilrath (of Couch and Blond) will enrapture fans of the rock-classical hybrid. On this recording, Heilrath is joined by Markus Acher (of Notwist and Tied & Tickled Trio), Mathis Mayr, Mathias L^hlein and Stephan Richter, who employ violin, clarinet, cello, and piano, along with electric guitar, bass and drums in Heilrath's original compositions, originally written as a soundtrack to Sven Gade's silent film Hamlet (1920).

Vertonung displays in no small measure Heilrath's passion for fractured beats and tragic melodies. It's the rhythm section versus the strings, generating eternal loops, getting together and then splitting up again. Minimal breaks in the continuity of the music appear after several times listening. The tracks follow a very long melodic arch with martial, ever-grooving beats.

Artist: BITCH MAGNET Title: Ben Hur
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM21CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Masterful pre-emo blast of proto-prog from folks who would go on to form SEAM and VINELAND. Certain fans of Slint and Jawbreaker often site this release as something very special. Includes the King Crimson-esque epic "Dragoon." Engineered by that Albini guy.

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Bitch Magnet "Ben Hur" (The Communion Label)

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Artist: BITCH MAGNET Title: Ben Hur
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM21MC
Price: $7.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: BITCH MAGNET Title: Umber/Starbooty
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM12MC
Price: $7.25 Label: Communion Label

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Bitch Magnet "Umber/Star Booty" (Communion)

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Artist: C C NOVA Title: Milk Cult Dispatch
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM31
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Member(s?) of Steel Pole Bathtub play all the right records at the wrong speeds. If your TV is left on a dead station all night and no one's there to nod off, does it make a sound? Mmmm.

Artist: DAVIS, JOHN Title: Leave Home
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM37CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Homemade fragile sunlight shafting into the window when you least suspect it. . .constructed out of in-between lines of forgotten conversations and notebooks lost somewhere along the trip. You found them, though, and preserved them in a little glass case. The spot on your mantle will be a little warmer, thanks to Mr. Davis.--Sweet Portable You

Artist: DAVIS, JOHN Title: Leave Home
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM37
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: DOUBLE U Title: Absurd Fjord
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM41CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Heft high your Nordic umbrella drinks and don't bogart that Aeolian wind harp, chief-- San Francisco's most gutteral neo-prog trio will wow you with tales of inner journeys and outer limits.

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Double U "Absurd Fjord" (Communion)

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Artist: DOUBLE U Title: Absurd Fjord
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM41
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FLOORED Title: Bittersweet
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM33CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Don't be pissing off Libra women, especially if you're not sure they erase all their answering machine messages. Members of Ford serve it cold. You will smile.
Artist: FLOORED Title: Bittersweet
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM33
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Dare To Be Surprised
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM45CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 10/29/07
***REISSUED AT A LOWER PRICE!

A 16-track recording (make no mistake) from 1997. This Lou Barlow / John Davis mind-meld alchemedicates the finest in tweaked beats, snakey guitars, prowling neo-Moogs and harmonies to be making even the blackest and most cynical, class-of-1996 indie hearts melt. Includes the singles "Pole Position" and "Insinuation."
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Dare To Be Surprised
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM45
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Dare To Be Surprised
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM45MC
Price: $7.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Insinuation
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 COMM46
Price: $4.00 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Insinuation
Format: CD5 Catalog
Number:		 COMM46CD
Price: $5.75 Label: Communion Label
***Some wags call it "Natural One Mk II". We resent the insinuation. Contains the non-LP tracks "Keeping Score" and "Trail Burn."
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Pole Position
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 COMM47
Price: $4.00 Label: Communion Label
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Pole Position
Format: CD5 Catalog
Number:		 COMM47CD
Price: $5.75 Label: Communion Label
***The first single from "Dare To Be Surprised." b/w the non-LP tracks "Opening Day (acoustic) and "Summer's Over."

Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: S/T A/K/A Palm Of My Hand
Format: CDEP Catalog
Number:		 COMM39CD
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
***1994/95 recordings: "Palm of My Hand," "Mood Swing," "Opening Day," "Electric Idiot," "Lo-Fi Suicide," "I Reserve the Right To Rock" and "Final Score." The latter five tracks are from the out-of-print Belgian "Electric Idiot" 7".
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Take A Look Inside...
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM32CD
Price: $9.00 Label: Communion Label
***14 songs in 22 minutes-- recorded on 4-track in John Davis' apartment on Mondays and Tuesdays in 1994. Charmingly premature new wave/"mod" tribute still turns ears (red) to this day. Timeless.
Artist: FOLK IMPLOSION Title: Take A Look Inside...
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM32
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label

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Take a Look Inside

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Artist: IDYLL SWORDS Title: Idyll Swords Ii
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM56
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 10/30/00
***The Communion Label is pleased to release the second album by North Carolina trio Idyll Swords, titled II - almost an hour of natural and fluidly morphing American folk and blues, along with the buzzy and sublime sounds of India, Persia and Turkey, all baked by three hot-shit guitarists. Dave Brylawski played guitar in Polvo and has recently completed his masters in social work at Columbia. Chuck Johnson played in Spatula and continues to work with innumerable other projects, including the Micro-East Collective, modelled after the Mills College-based Micro-Collective. Chuck is also studying Hindustani classical music with noted sarod-player K. Sridhar and a Hindustani vocal teacher. Grant Tennille is the quiet genius type, responsible for some of the most epic 'Swords work, and likes to collect bootlegs on the Internet. For those who have to put the peg in the hole, well, he does session work for Trans Am, all right?

The Swords' music is stunning, influenced by many worlds while retaining the flavor of its own place. Those who'd like to take Pocahantas back to the city will be thrilled to introduce this charming entity to their friends.

References: the Takoma Records triumvirate (Fahey, Basho, Kottke), Vishwan Mohan Bhatt, Davey Graham, the kudzu plant, a train ride in Rajhastan, the smell of wood powder and spice, Ankara International Airport.

Grant Tennille
guitar, sitar-guitar, tamboura, cumbus (a 12-string banjolin from Turkey), voice, percussion, baglama saz

Chuck Johnson
6- and 12-string guitar, banjo, pushpa veena (Indian, played with a slide lap-steel-style), voice, oud, ruan (Chinese lute), bass guitar, tambura, percussion, field recordings, audio editing

Dave Brylawski
guitar, oud, rubab, baglama saz, voice, percussion, cumbus, tambura

Artist: IDYLL SWORDS Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM052CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 6/21/99
***Traditional sounds (folk/ethnic music from Europe and Asia/India) are blended with neo-classic leanings for a lushly holistic result. Meet North Carolinians Dave Brylawski and Chuck Johnson-- you may remember them from, respectively, Polvo and Spatula. They are joined by Grant Tenille on guitar (bowed and otherwise) for some exquisite topography by way of less western sonic modes.

Artist: J P S EXPERIENCE Title: Elemental
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM24CD
Price: $6.75 Label: Communion Label
Artist: J P S EXPERIENCE Title: Elemental
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM24
Price: $6.75 Label: Communion Label
Artist: J P S EXPERIENCE Title: Elemental
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM24MC
Price: $5.75 Label: Communion Label
Artist: JAWBREAKER Title: 24 Hour Revenge
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM49CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Artist: JAWBREAKER Title: 24 Hour Revenge
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM49MC
Price: $7.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: JAWBREAKER Title: Bivouac
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM38CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***According to SPIN magazine (and we do EVERYTHING they say, chop chop), this is one of the top 10 "emossential" albums of the 90s.

Artist: JAWBREAKER Title: Bivouac
Format: MC Catalog
Number:		 COMM38MC
Price: $7.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: KNOX, CHRIS Title: Not Given Lightly
Format: 10" Catalog
Number:		 COMM26
Price: $5.75 Label: Communion Label
Artist: KUNIN, BEN Title: Acoustic Adventures
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM57
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 1/28/02
***Ben Kunin patiently mentors students of sarod and Hindustani music theory 20 miles north of San Francisco in San Rafael, at the school founded by one of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century, sarodist Ali Akbar Khan. In addition to being a master student of Hindustani music theory and sarod-playing, Kunin is also an incredible classical guitarist who can stand the hairs on your arms and neck on end and slip time out of its more linear patterns. With an acoustic nylon-stringed guitar, he can blow you away with some of the most inspired guitar-playing since John Fahey, Terry Riley or the Sun City Girls. Anyone who has felt the joy in the playing of Fahey, Robbie Basho or other noted folkische fingerpickers will need to rush to their CD player and pop this jewel in.

The nine tracks on Acoustic Adventures beautifully demonstrate the disciplines one learns in both Indian and Western classical theory, while also displaying the transcendant freedom that all great musicians channel in their own unique ways. The music is closest to the Takoma-era players, but with its own special approach to the "great tradition."

Ben Kunin's debut CD is simply a beautiful collection of classical-folk guitar sure to please anyone who will listen.

Artist: MANNING, BARBARA Title: In New Zealand
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM50CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 10/5/98
***Recorded during an extended visit to New Zealand in early 1997. Guests include such veteran NZ luminaries as David (the Clean) Kilgour, Robert (Bats) Scott, Chris (Tall Dwarfs) Knox, Graeme (Verlaines) Downes, David(the 3Ds) Mitchell and Denise (the 3Ds) Roughan. Also sitting in are John Convertino and Joey Burns, both known for their membership in Giant Sand and (more recently) Calexico. Gentle brooding and torching intimacy seldom sound this timeless.
Artist: MANNING, BARBARA Title: In New Zealand
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM50
Price: $7.35 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 10/5/98
Artist: MIA DOI TODD Title: Come Out Of Your Mine
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM051CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 5/17/99
*** 1999 release from Los Angeles singer-songwriter. Fans of Nico, Chan Marshall/Cat Power and Joni Mitchell, take note....

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Mia Doi Todd "Come Out Of Your Mine" (The Communion Label)

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Artist: PALMER, CLIVE Title: All Roads Lead To Land
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM60CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 10/11/04
***A founding member of The Incredible String Band, Clive Palmer is a virtuoso banjo player and distinguished folk musician who has recorded at least three (still sort of "lost") classic albums with ensembles C.O.B. (Clive's Original Band) and The Famous Jug Band. Palmer has been in several other mythical bands, and has released a selection of awe-inspiring solo albums all the way up to the present time. Ten of the songs constituting All Roads Lead To Land were recorded during a 1999 session with two additional tracks culled from previous UK-only releases. The songs were picked by Steve Fellows, assigned songselector for an overview retrospective of Palmer's long and varied career. However, upon hearing the 1999 sessions, it was decided that these magical tracks, previously unreleased, stood up with the best of his previously released material and deserved to be heard. Considering the high quality of Palmer's previous work, this cannot be considered faint praise.

Clive was the best banjo player I ever heard, in every mode. He could be frail, he could do Edwardian Music Hall stuff, and he could play bluegrass. He taught me a couple of things. I loved his lifestyle, his exotic hippiness. He was my banjo hero, and still is. --Billy Connolly, BBC Radio Two

  • Solo recordings with notable exceptions: Famous Jug Band colleagues Jill Johnson, Pete Berryman and Henry Bartlett on the album opener, and ISB's Robin Williamson plays fiddle on "Paris"
  • Résumé includes co-founding the Incredible String Band, and founding C.O.B. and Famous Jug Band
  • Thirty years of excellence continuing on unabated
  • Distinctive mix of folk traditions (Eastern, Celtic, Edwardian and Appalachian), bluegrass guile, and old-timey aplomb
  • Working on new material in Autumn '04

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Oh For Summer
    You Were Meant For Me
    Lament For Shelley
    Sands of Time
    Breizh
    Broken Dreams
    Paris
    Linden Lea
    Dans la Campagne
    Big City Blues
    Baby Sing The Blues
    Embraceable You

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    All Roads Lead to Land

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Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Anchors Of Bleed
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM40CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Final (?) effort for the Communion label (the band would soon return to the nurturing confines of the Shrimper Corporation) finds these Princes of the Inland Empire in a reflective mood. Essential, as always.

Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: Anchors Of Bleed
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM40
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: How You Continue Dreaming
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM36CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***Absolutely masterful album from the best San Dimas, California has to offer.

Artist: REFRIGERATOR Title: How You Continue Dreaming
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM36
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: TFUL 282 / THINKING FELLERS Title: I Hope It Lands
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM43CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
***The most-mentioned band in the Communion label FAQ released this full-length album in 1995.
Artist: TFUL282 / THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 Title: Bob Dinners And Larry Noodles Present...
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM53CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 4/16/01
***Musicians reaching a point in their careers when it is imperative that they release an album with the most ridiculous title imaginable - it is a revered tradition with a long, colorful history. Honestly, now, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, what the hell's that about? And Their Satanic Majesty's Request? As if! And then there's Works, Volume 2. Where do they get this stuff! It should be perfectly obvious that Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 have been poised to gussy up the canon of Ridiculous Album Titles since, oh, about their third day as a band. Of course, there is a story behind Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche, a long, ridiculous story about a talkshow that's probably detailed in excruciating detail on a website somewhere. Their latest album on the Communion label, literally years in the making, went through numerous nomenclatural changes because of, y'know, certain negative associative baggage that each working moniker brought to the mind of the beholder. Savor the sigh of relief you can now freely breathe because we are not asking you to buy an album called Boobfeeler or Eickelberg of Nine or Adolf Hitler - the Nazi.

If one had to complain about past TFUL282 recordings it could be argued that they're too ambitious for their own good - packed as they are with more unorthodox recording techniques and layers of sound than relentlessly minimal budgets allow producers to contain and accurately reproduce. The slow, methodical approach to creating an album serves this San Francisco quintet enormously well, and longtime TFUL282 producer Greg Freeman is the only person on Earth who is right for the job. Within the first seconds of the opening track, "Another Clip," anyone familiar with past TFUL282 efforts will suspect that they have finally made an album that sounds as good as it deserves to. And they won't be wrong. Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche will certainly join Strangers from the Universe and Admonishing the Bishops as a premier item in the band's discography, and in some ways, surpasses the earlier efforts. It's almost as if they've finally discovered stereo.

TFUL282's biggest strength - arrangements that allow the ugly beauty of avant rock to meld organically with peppy little melodies that kick you in the nards - is finally flourishing not despite the recording quality, but because of it. Faux operettas suddenly transform into ground-to-a-halt shanties at the wrong speed; whale songs spontaneously corrupt themselves and become cries of harpooned whales; stockcar guitar riffs fishtail across bluegrass mirages; between debased jingles that have college radio station ID written all over them and chilly tinklers that could have been lifted directly from an hilarious new episode of Star Trek, backward Carnaby Street melodies battle like simultaneously occurring concept albums by the Kinks, the Pretty Things and . . . hell, name someone, Giles, Giles & Fripp.

Artist: TFUL282 / THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282 Title: Bob Dinners And Larry Noodles Present...
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 COMM53
Price: $8.25 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 4/16/01
Artist: TIMCO Title: Birds, Bees, Cherries
Format: 2x7" Catalog
Number:		 COMM27
Price: $4.25 Label: Communion Label
Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: Folk Scene
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM58
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 11/5/01
***The Communion Label is pleased to present another special chapter from the ever-changing ensemble known as The Tower Recordings.

Folk Scene presents the crew (for this recording inclusive of Matt Valentine, P.G. Six, Helen Rush, Erika Elder, Tim Barnes, S. Freyer Esq., Steve Gubler, Robert Henry Jones III, Samara Lubelski, Dean Roberts, Andre Vida and Barry Weisblat) in a rarified state, a folkische mood and sound hinted at in previous recordings (especially Siltbreeze's wondrous Furniture Music) but now developed in full blossom. Beauty and inspiration rain down like manna in these sessions, recordings both wonderfully focused and distilled, yet free.

Those of us enamored of the English pagan folk rock of decades past (both electric and acoustic) will no doubt be pleased with this enhanced collection, previously released as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies. An extra 14 tracks are added to this CD version, along with completely new cover art and information.

Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM061CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 11/15/04
***The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings comprises a full band expedition to an upstate New York church session around the time that songs used for the Folk Scene album were recorded. After reviewing the tapes with fellow tapenaut and TTR member Tim Barnes, Matt Valentine (MV) said "The music is some of the finest TTR has ever produced, encompassing all our nodes and distilled toward a universal sound like no other that the band ever touched on."

We believe you will agree. These recordings find TTR in their penultimate moment, as a full ensemble breathing alternately spicy and sweet and hazy and then twinkling. There are a lot of reference points, but we'll leave those up to you to discern. You're an adult now. We trust you.

Line-Up: MV / PG Six / Helen Rush / Tim Barnes / Samara Lubelski / S. Freyer, Esq. / Andre Vida / Dean Roberts

  • Deserves consideration as TTRs best work
  • Growing reverence for TTR as more people tune in
  • Various band members doing other great things: MV's solo and duo recordings with Erika Elder; PG Six's two solo albums; Samara Lubelski's solo efforts and work with Hall of Fame; and Devadip Tim Barnes's playing (solo and with Neil Haggerty), producing and curating (his Quakebasket imprint); Dean Roberts' solo and collaborative work
  • Limited edition vinyl pressing
  • Buy now, because TTR need propane for the Vermont winter

    30-second MP3 excerpts:

    Harvester
    Empress of I-91
    Giggy Garbage Gods (777)
    Ibiza Within You
    Forum
    Other Kinds Run

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    The Galaxies' Incredibly Sensual Transmission Field of the Tower Recordings Amazon

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    Artist: TOWER RECORDINGS Title: Galaxies' Incredible Sensual Transmission Field Of The Tower Recordings
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 COMM061
    Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
    Release
    Date:    		 11/15/04
    Artist: VILLAGE OF SAVOONGA Title: Philipp Schatz
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 COMM44
    Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
    ***Second album from German superArtRockGroup consisting of members of Notwist, Tied & Tickled Trio, Fred Is Dead, A Million Mercies, Rayon and Alles Wie Gross.
    Artist: VILLAGE OF SAVOONGA Title: S/T
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 COMM54CD
    Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
    Release
    Date:    		 8/21/00
    ***The music on this long awaited CD issue of the legendary first album by Bavarian collective Village of Savoonga spans 1991-'94 and still stands as the group's favorite material. With five non-LP songs from rare singles and compilations, this completes the Village of Savoonga discography on compact disc.

    Village of Savoonga's delightfully mysterious music has consistently bewildered listeners with its beautiful, 3am-texture drapery, subdued pacing, somber piano, scratchy looped sounds, and spooky organ-drenched segments. Mood pieces, electronic manipulations and semi-structured rock segments frequently originate as soundtracks for films - Sparta's Philipp Schatz and F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu in the case of tracks on their acclaimed second album, Philipp Schatz. The band's third full-length album, Score, found itself on "Best of the Year" lists of numerous critics. The soundtracks here originated with rhythmic, noisy or "natural" sounds, further "alienated" by electronics with loops and musical tracks layered on top, and completed over a two-year period as the band added more layers and melded everything into a pair of suites.