jan st werner: split animal sculpture

One-sided lilac-colored vinyl with silk-screened B-side. Includes an insert and photograph. This new long-form composition by Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars, Lithops, Microstoria, Von Südenfed) is a companion piece to the artist's ongoing Fiepblatter series on Thrill Jockey, and as the title suggests, manages to sound simultaneously biotic and fabricated. An impressionistic rendering of church bells and organ drone is suggestive of a large man-made structure, while in-between can be heard the flutters and whistles of something animated navigating its way through the reverberating buzz. Recalling the electro-acoustic atmospheres and alien tones of the late Bernard Parmegiani, St. Werner has once again produced a timeless piece of sonic terrain.