Casino Versus Japan - Frozen Geometry

"Frozen Geometry" emerged from years of sketching new textures on guitar, which were layered and looped into immersive capsules of harmony and drift. The original intention was to use them as melodic foundations for future compositions but then he "became aware of them existing on their own."

First full-length offering from legendary ambient act in over half a decade.

An intriguing opus of hypnotic beauty and peripheral consciousness.

October 21, 2016

https://casinoversusjapan.bandcamp.com/album/frozen-geometry

Just came in to post this!

Immediately pre-ordered the tape, I'm a sucker for all things limited edition. Can consign it to my precious Attacknine pile!

I wonder what the total running length is? Cassette was usually 30-35 mins a side, no? 2 hourish?

was just listening to CVJ the other day, so this is his first release for a long long time? ha just scrolled up, anyway looking forward to this 

  On 8/31/2016 at 1:39 PM, pyramidpanes said:

was just listening to CVJ the other day, so this is his first release for a long long time? ha just scrolled up, anyway looking forward to this 

It's his first release in a while but he hasn't actually released anything new since 2002.

Night On Tape and other stuff since then are all older recordings. Frozen Geometry sounds like more archive material.

Awesome.

What happened to AM Boy?

This is awesome news to wake up to. 

AM Boy put a single out last year on attacknine, around the same time as CVJ's last single. I hope there's a new AM Boy lp on the horizon.

  On 8/31/2016 at 12:00 PM, BentyTwenson said:

Just came in to post this!

 

Immediately pre-ordered the tape, I'm a sucker for all things limited edition. Can consign it to my precious Attacknine pile!

 

I wonder what the total running length is? Cassette was usually 30-35 mins a side, no? 2 hourish?

Tapes can be anything from 1 minute to 120 minutes but C-45 (22.5 per side) is probably most typical, i.e. LP equivalent length. Anything from C30 to C60 is pretty common.

Just ordered, the five tracks I can download are pretty solid ...

Tape has already sold out.

  On 8/31/2016 at 9:02 PM, fumi said:

Tape has already sold out.

Glad to see it's in demand, wonder if he'll do a repress. I imagine they'll resell for a lot if he doesn't.

Second pressing up! Get it while you can!

smooth and creamy. puffy white cloud sounds. casino versus japans sounds always melts in my ear holes but not in my hand.

i remember when th first listened to th 'go hawaii' + me shorts where wt but i was not swimming.

thank usa for erik kowalski 

Cassette arrived today!







How does one even cassette?!    

night on tape is a masterpiece. I have really high hopes for this!

  On 9/28/2016 at 9:05 PM, BentyTwenson said:

Cassette arrived today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How does one even cassette?!    

Two pencils spinning really fast

There was a time when I used to listen to 'go Hawaii' almost daily. Pretty excited to hear this thing in its entirety.

I didn't realised this had come out until i saw something posted on facebook.  About to tuck in

  On 9/29/2016 at 2:15 AM, Braintree said:

There was a time when I used to listen to 'go Hawaii' almost daily. Pretty excited to hear this thing in its entirety.

Massive album and my favorite CvJ release, still holds up well after all these years too

very nice work. 

sounds like Robin Guthrie covering Windy & Carl and Old Tunes BoC.

CvJ has his "Live At Le Poisson Rouge" available for FREE via Attacknine's Bandcamp page:

https://attacknine.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-le-poisson-rouge

Bandcamp also has an interview with Erik up as well: https://daily.bandcamp.com/2016/11/01/casino-versus-japan-erik-kowalski-interview/

I just discovered a decade old collection of tracks buried away on an old FireWire drive I had up in the attic. The four tracks were for an album Erik was planning at the time but never came out. I seem to remember I recorded them off of MySpace. They're really lovely. It would be great if someone could validate/name them. The file is dated 'Autumn 2007'. They've never been officially released as far as I know.