From liner notes by Lars Gotrich:
“We begin in the void, as we always do. Endless skies. Black night sighs. Space is the place, but in solitude, an empty embrace.
But in the darkness still we find an obsidian shimmer. Heather Sommerhauser drones starless synthesizer tones. Billy Mohler’s upright bass sculpts the cosmic web. It quickens; it thickens. It recedes; it gives slow shape to chaos. Then at drummer Ben Lumsdaine’s sudden rat-a-tat crescendo, everything snaps into place.
Welcome to Plays Planet Caravan. Chris Schlarb helms Psychic Temple, the decade-spanning, member-fluid group that revels in wild combinations. With little more than a short demo and basic charts, these eight musicians based in Southern California— some of whom had never played together— recorded these two side-long excavations at Schlarb’s BIG EGO studio on a single Sunday afternoon.”
