The Eureka Tapes, by Hoor-paar-Kraat

The Eureka Tapes

by Hoor-paar-Kraat

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	1.	Pearls 04:52
	2.	Secrets from a Silk Purse 11:11
	3.	Swine 03:09
	4.	Lacking a Cast Shadow 08:13
	5.	Departure of the Icicle Man 08:05
	6.	Habit and the Smooth Sailing of the Psyche 11:57
	7.	Relics of the Inheritance 03:44
	8.	The Broken Windows of a Fertile World 08:42
	9.	The Self is an Onion Self 13:13
	10.	The Clear Light 02:53
	11.	Everything Gets Devoured, Eventually 09:31
	12.	5,000 Gallons of Divine Light 03:05
	13.	Ophanim 09:42
	14.	Gnomes 02:54
	15.	Salamanders 05:04
	16.	La Sylphide 06:08
	17.	In the Distance, It Shimmers 06:10
	18.	By the Light of the Morning Star 10:13
	19.	The Mundane Egg 04:17
	20.	Sobbing Peaks Backward Twins 03:49

about

The pieces that make up The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) 2CD were all created while Hoor-paar-Kraat’s Anthony Mangicapra was living in the town of Eureka, California. Indeed, the town’s name is apt as they represent a “Eurekamoment” for Hoor-paar-Kraat as a musical entity; a figurative spilling of the bath waters as Hoor-paar-Kraat found their sound. The hints of alchemical transcendence that peeped through the cracks of previous releases come brazenly into view throughout Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings). Music dissolves into explorations of texture, acoustic phenomena and the psyche.
Originally issued as three separate volumes in a variety of hard to find formats (A Whisper in the Sow’s Ear, a 3” CD; Graduating from Clocks to Watches C55 and Taxonomy of Divine Organisms, a CDr made to accompany, and sold only at, Mangicapra’s exhibit of paintings, “Above & Below”), The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) collects the three original volumes. In addition to the original releases, The Eureka Tapes (The Complete Recordings) also includes Hoor-paar-Kraat’s side of their split cassette with Last and a previously unreleased recording from the same sessions. Spanning styles and moods like some kind of emotional suspension bridge, Hoor-paar-Kraat’s music finds itself traveling the same surreal by-ways as Nurse With Wound, irr. app. (ext.), The Hafler Trio and Coil’s more ritualistic output.

2CD set co-released with Small Doses.