james holden & camilo tirado/luke abbott: outdoor museum of fractals/555hz

Border Community's eager improvisers James Holden and Luke Abbott flirt with the new age on this split double LP with a pair of extended synth meditations indulging their respective loves of arpeggio and drone, both originally composed for the occasion of Terry Riley's 80th birthday in 2015. Holden's "Outdoor Museum of Fractals" fuses the endlessly unfolding fractal complexity of luxurious arpeggio washes with the pitched tabla drumming of Camilo Tirado, copilot on this hypnotic, meditative journey. Abbott's metallic gong-drone offering "555Hz" layers this mystical frequency and its related harmonics in a sequence of transportive, wave-like swells. Running over 45 and 30 minutes apiece, each composition is split in two for the heavyweight vinyl format, but both are available in uninterrupted form via the included download codes.