Splitting Oak

by SITKA

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bjornvegan quite simply, the best ambient release in years. fragile, brittle, delicate, yet at the same time monolithic and harrowing. its minimalism leaves me breathless every single time.

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	1.	Part one 06:21
	2.	Part two 04:32
	3.	Part three 03:12
	4.	Part four 13:32

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May, 2019

The journey long and grand, leaving them awake at night and left to wonder what is beating at the center of this lonesome heart. Slow learning of how to let go, revealing a great bliss raging on and on all along a harrowing red blasting upon the western rise. The darkened land ahead devoured to return what was on loan anyway, this dead end, this long told story that carries us into the black until there's just love and death and nothing left to say and nothing left at all.

Artwork by Kraanvogel

Mastered by Gert Van Hoof at Cochlea Mastering

Composed and recorded during 2017-2018, photograph by Ben Van Houdt

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released May 29, 2019

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SITKA Belgium

Ben Van Houdt is a Belgian musician releasing solo work as SITKA since 2015. Inspired by the sound of tape machines and reel to reel recorders, manipulated guitar textures stutter and distort through layers of runaway loops and broken sounds. Crippled oscillators surface hissing and blaring along steady streams of faded noise, echoing a withered image of decay. ... more

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