SUNSPLASH!

In late December 2006, the three core members of Thee Comet Allotment convened in East Wemyss, with the intention of once again summoning the magical energies of sound, tapping into the infinite subconscious knowledge of mankind and in the process charging themselves and the surrounding area with the collective perpetual inspiration of Now.

At midnight they entered a small wooden gazebo/hut, and armed with a 4-track port-a-studio, Dictaphone, guitar, melodica and a childs toy microphone with a reverb spring inside, they set out to pay homage to the Flaming Lips deathless Zaireeka! LP and the use of multiple sound sources found therein. Instead, they created a sprawling semi-improvised meditation on outer space, inner space, Mother Nature, the forces which brought our planet into being and the forces which are currently pulling it apart.

Unique in the bands discography, the uncharacteristic multi-tracking approach serves only to highlight the terrifying versatility of the collectives vocal interplay, from straight-up Sam & Dave styled call-and-response holler, to masses of swirling, wordless wailing, chanting and all things in-between, the multi-track production and arrangement gives a suitably epic sound for the lofty issues addressed within.

Channelling such greats as Stockhausens Stimmung, Black Sabbaths self-titled LP, and Autechres Gantz Graff, as well as the dubbier moments of Augustus Pablo, SUNSPLASH is undoubtedly Thee Comet Allotments most ambitious release, as well as being one of their most political and sociologically explicit compositions, and will be taught to children to warn them of the folly of mankind in the primary schools of the future.

The members of Thee Comet Allotment, past, present and future, love you all.

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