Pearl Cloud Song Reformations

Norwegian folk artist Juni Habel's latest album Evergreen In Your Mind is largely an ode to letting go, and at it’s inquisitive heart can be found ‘Pearl Cloud Song’. An instrumental four-and-a-half minutes, it came from a guitar tuning that Habel stumbled upon, the song tumbling out of the discovery on its own accord. Lush and vibrant and bristling with life, it’s a beautiful backdrop to stepping into nature, bringing together a simple drum machine pattern, steel-string guitar, pedal steel, considered effects, and the flicker of a voice somewhere in the far-off distance. Juni says "it gives the sensation of flying." With such ingredients it was rife for a remix.'Pearl Cloud Song Reformations' is a very limited 12" (also available digitally) which features two remixes/reformations from Tom Sharkett and Minotaur Shock and also includes Juni Habel's original version. There will only be 100 ever made.Tom Sharkett is a producer from Manchester, now based in Todmorden. Having cut his teeth as a founding member of synth-wave band W. H. Lung. Tom has gone on to forge his own path as an electronic artist with music on Optimo Music, DFA and Test Pressing. His work leans towards dark, wonky and psychedelic electronics and his edit of LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Home’ grabbed the attention ofJames Murphy which led to an official official DFA release. The cosmic choogle of his 'Pearl Cloud Song Reformation' is Sharkett's first remix committed to vinyl since.Minotaur Shock is the long-standing electronic project of Bristol-based producer David Edwards. With a discography spanning labels like 4AD, Melodic and Bytes, Edwards balances pastoral charm with IDM sensibilities, creating soundscapes that are as much about the heart as they are the head.Denny Field from Basin Rock take on the release:"As soon as Juni sent us Purple Cloud Song, the drum machine really stood out and we played it to Tom right away as he lives at the bottom of the hill in Tod. Tom's put his own stamp on it of course, and it's also why we asked Minotaur Shock, each of their takes are very different, but we wanted their Reformations to have a bit of a nostalgic feel to them. Something you could imagine being played late at night at those first Green Man's, slightly psychedelic, when Caribou was still Manitoba, possibly fit on those early Bibio and Four Tet albums or a 2000s Melodic or Border Community release. Obviously with Juni being Norwegian, there's a real rich history of great natural sounding electronica/disco from the similar time period. We wanted the 12" to be in that spirit. F***tronica, for use of a better fucking word."