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Eating A Tree

by Tsap

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  • Limited tape
    Cassette + Digital Album

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  • Altered States Tapes shirt
    T-Shirt/Apparel + Digital Album

    INFO:

    AST is finally making a t-shirt so you can show your support for strange Australian electronic music.

    Killer design by Sydney artist Yuta Matsumura (Orion / Low Life / Oily Boys / et al) featuring the skyline of Newcastle.

    Printed on Gildan heavy shirts.


    ADDITIONAL NOTE:

    Shirt print ran slightly over the size in guide pic, if you are concerned send an email and photo can be provided.


    Includes download of AST101: Pedestal Arts Estate compilation.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Eating A Tree via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Universal Solvents Zine / Issue One
    Poster/Print

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    lulusmelb.com/collections/frontpage/products/universal-solvents-1


    For cheaper PDF DOWNLOAD ONLY version go to the Altered States Bigcartel page.




    UNIVERSAL SOLVENTS / ISSUE ONE

    A new in-house zine written and printed at home by Cooper Bowman, but otherwise having nothing directly to do with Altered States.



    The first issue features interviews w/ YL Hooi, Suburban Cracked Collective and Cube (US). Also included are two art-page contributions by funny person / punk drummer James Vinciguerra as well as some of my personal reflections on 90’s band This Mortal Coil and a small, but involved review section covering a few music and print curios of interest.



    Physical purchase comes with hi-res PDF download of scans in case you prefer to read on a screen for whatever reason but still want some more paper in your house.

    Download will be emailed after purchase.

    I’ll be printing at least 25 of these, maximum 50.
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  • Cassette (2nd run)
    Cassette + Digital Album

    very small second run of Eating A Tree, didn't make many the first time and think it's worth sharing more of.

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A1: Lacq II 11:26
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A3: Lacq III 09:33
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B1: Lacq I 06:40
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B4: Lacq IV 09:56

about

Last copies available here:

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AST105:

After a debut cassette on Berlin’s Total Black last year, Tsap come crawling over to Altered States for their first sitting in its wonked halls. Tsap is a Sydney / Newcastle duo made up of Chris Colla and Cooper Bowman.

EAT was originally conceived as an ambient / longform listen based around some late night jams we had and loosely themed on an ascetic Buddhist practice of self-immolation. While the liminal tracks, titled Lacq I-IV, underpin the release, there are other distractions along the ascent. The Saint Of Rice Excrement vaguely calls to mind two of our great loves, Robert Turman and Nick Blinko, in one of the stranger compatibility-matches imaginable. Chant Reduction continues the chaotic, mutated house of our first tape and Crumbling Stupa features an eviscerated beat along with someone warbling as if they heard Scott Walker, took peyote and were left to their own (unplugged) devices in the mountains. 



Expect the first Tsap LP, Flickering Lyghte In Campsite, later in the year sometime. At the very least, it makes more sense than Eating A Tree.


credits

released March 19, 2020

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ALTERED STATES TAPES Hobart, Australia

Nipaluna tape label

Operating since 2010.

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