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- His Name Is Alive
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- Disciples
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A Silver Thread:
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All The Mirrors In The House [Home Recordings 1979 - 1986 Volume 1] Vinyl, 1×LP
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Return To Never [Home Recordings 1979 - 1986 Volume 2] Vinyl, 1×LP, Coloured Vinyl
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Hope Is A Candle [Home Recordings 1985 - 1990 Volume 3] Vinyl, 1×LP
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Available: June 10, 2022
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All The Mirrors In The House [Home Recordings 1979 - 1986 Volume 1]
All The Mirrors In The House takes in the period of 1979-1986, a timespan which means that some of the entries here were made when Defever was as young as 10. The tender age at which Defever created these pieces gives them an air of childlike curiosity. On this record we see a young person’s musical understanding developing in real time.
Defever’s youth also makes the quality of these tracks all the more remarkable. All The Mirrors In The House is not just a cute example of a kid playing around with recording equipment - these droning ambiences are dense, complex and frequently very beautiful. Artists like James Leyland Kirby and William Basinski would surely consider tracks as shimmeringly gorgeous as ‘Because Piano’ as gems in their arsenal and there is an ethereal quality to many of the numbers here that is not dissimilar to the ‘holy minimalism’ of Arvo Pärt.
Return To Never [Home Recordings 1979 - 1986 Volume 2]
What we have here are formative works dating from Defever’s teenage years (sometimes even earlier). In these tracks - and the accompanying interview and inner-sleeve essay by My Bloody Valentine/Galaxie 500 chronicler Mike McGonigal - we see a young Defever honing the techniques that would serve him so well in the project’s successful later years.
Much of the record comprises beautiful greyscale drones and ambiences that often come doused in liberal amounts of tape hiss. This sound is particularly apparent in the first half of the album, and the manner in which one Basinski-esque vignette bleeds into another would have you think that these tracks were conceived together as a whole album rather than being the disparate bedroom experiments of an adolescent. Defever’s wide-ranging musical interests bring more variation into Return To Never as it goes on - the album’s back-third is more torrid, with an increasingly industrial/concrete flavour to the distorted tones and audio manipulations.
Hope Is A Candle [Home Recordings 1985 - 1990 Volume 3]
One can hear a teenage Defever growing into his artistic voice here - indeed, elements of the record ended up being repurposed for His Name Is Alive’s 1990 debut LP Livonia, and some tracks have circulated among fans for years in bootleg form. This material is even more gauzy and gorgeous now it has been restored to high-quality audio.
There is a dreaminess to this music that tallies with what some of Defever’s 4AD contemporaries were doing at the same time. However, his idiosyncratic aesthetic and methods of production also push Hope Is A Candle into other terrain. The utopian atmospheres of fourth world music, industrial’s bold sampling and cathedral-wide ambient sounds can all be found here - though it is a testament to the vision of the young Defever that, even with all those balls in play, Hope Is A Candle ultimately sounds like nothing other than His Name Is Alive.
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- February 13, 2021
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- February 12, 2021
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- December 8, 2020
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- August 25, 2020
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- February 29, 2020
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