Troum "Sen" :: Running low

Thanks to everyone for making Sen a success. It's only been 1 week since I announced the release of this somewhat lavish 2xLp set --- and stocks are already running low. In fact I have - at the time of writing this - only about 10 picture discs left and the coloured vinyls are both running low too.

Distributors ::
The following distributors are stocking Troum's Sen 2xLP and I urge you to shop here as they need your support ...

• Adagio380 (Germany)
• Aquarius Records (USA - they have the ultra-limited clear vinyl version)
• Beta-lactam Ring Records (USA)
• Conspiracy Records (Belgium)
• Cold Spring (UK)
• Drone (Germany - of course)
• My Own Salvation (France)
• Old Europa Cafe (Italy)
• Soleilmoon (USA)
• Tesco (Germany)

Note :: Not all these have received their copies yet or added this item to their stock list - but they will.

International Postage Grumbles ::
I need to emphasize this - the USPS (United States Post Office) has a crappy international service. Before May 2007 you could send packages economy (surface) - this was slow but had the distinct advantage of being cheap. Then - after some fundamentally and institutionally corrupt lobbying by big media business - the USPS removed all cheap international postage options leaving everyone with just 1 choice: air mail (= expensive). And these rates were increased by a huge amount at the same time (like rubbing salt in a wound).
This sad state of affairs is compounded by the fact that no air packages can be insured or tracked (a service even backward countries like the UK can offer). I can send things via DHL (which tracks packages) but this costs a small fortune - even after the nice discount I managed to negotiate.
So - sorry to all international customers. The USPS sucks but there is nothing at all I can do about this. The prices I charge are correct - high - but correct, and sometimes the postage charged me is even higher than what I charged! Not the best business strategy of all time but I cannot be bothered to revise my hard-won postage code. I want to direct my energies in releasing records - not farting about in dull postage calculation code...

Forthcoming ::
The Bass Communion CD/DVD-A set Pacific Codex is being constructed and shrink-wrapped. It should be out sometime the first week February. It looks incredible and represents a massive effort by everyone concerned.
The New Blockaders + Das Synthetische Mischgewebe :: The Monosyllabic Bicycles Tri-Coloured Quadruples LP/7" should be out roughly same time. The sleeves for the LP are incredible. Huge ultra-heavy casebound glossy slabs of card!! Records are great (heavy, 200g vinyl). I am still waiting on the 7" copies. I expect there to be 285 numbered copies.
The Aidan Baker 2xLP set Gathering Blue is also going to be started very soon. It will be in a beautiful gatefold sleeve (designed by Aidan) and will be limited to about 300 copies (not because I have an inexhaustable collectors fetish - but because I simply cannot afford to make any more, vinyl is costing more and more to make these days).
Also an LP by APSE - an amazing group from CT and MA - will be in the pipe soon. Not sure of all the details yet - but it will likely be housed in a gatefold sleeve and be limited to about 400 copies (or so).
Finally plans for a Various Artists compilation 2xCD set is being hatched as I write titled :: SouthendPunk.com: Rare, Vintage and Unreleased Tracks From The Southend Punk Scene 1977 to 1986 is being planned. This is a major effort, slightly obscure I grant you but good stuff, really worth checking out.

TROUM :: Sen :: 2xLP :: OUT NOW !!

After numerous delays Equation is proud to announce the release of this incredible DOUBLE LP set by TROUM. It surely is the most luxurious vinyl release we have so far created. See the pictures below - it needs to be handled to fully appreciate the artifact. There are many more pictures on the release page on the Equation web site. Baraka[H] (of Troum) has said that - apart from being the best looking Troum record so far - it is probably the most beautiful LP record in his whole collection!
Just to be clear there are THREE DIFFERENT VERSIONS (stated below with pressing numbers and the price - which really is as low as I can go honest!!):

1. Version #1 :: PICTURE DISC SET :: 217 numbered copies :: $30 + p&p
   
2. Version #2 :: Tan 180g vinyl with halo :: 147 numbered copies :: $28 + p&p
   
3. Version #3 :: Clear 180g vinyl w/sepia haze (only available via Equation, the band or Aquarius Records) :: 97 numbered copies only :: $28 + p&p

All 2xLP sets come with 3 luxury heavy-gauge circular double-sided card inserts and a sticker (all housed in a sealed heavy 7" PVC sleeve fastened inside the gatefold), the sleeve has 2 stickers affixed to the outside and the PVC gatefold sleeve is fastened with a Velcro button.

Here are some pictures...

The three circular inserts are shown along with the gatefold opened-out.

Some more details ...........
This is a re-mastered re-issue of the long out-of-print Mort Aux Vaches CD (from 1999). The remastering now gives the work the best-ever sound quality (the band say this themselves) - which works wonderfully on vinyl.

Music Details - as written by Jim Haynes from The Wire (UK) ::
"Troum mines the nether regions of the subconscious to create waking replications of the nightly visions. Their recordings are far from mere transcriptions of dreams to tape: they are the gossamer residues of once vivid memories, passed through mesmeric filters to slowly dissolve present reality into soft focus fragments of thought. Musically, these translations fall both on the sublime and, at times, on the malevolent side of the ambient fence.

Sen is fixated on the North Sea where sheets of black ice creak under the tidal currents that roll onto a rocky beach. Troum sees no need to utter any direct references, implying their metaphors behind a bleak drone haze of guitars, bells, voice, and keyboards treated with a heavy dose of synthetic cathedral reverb. Sen reveals Troum's post-industrial background with a churning drum machine which rumbles underneath the complex tonal patterns like an antiquated seaside factory.

Troum, more so than their precedent incarnation Maeror Tri, has the potential to invoke awe through their hypnogogic expanses of droning sound. Rarely have they failed to push beyond their potential, and Sen is no exception. "

More details for your catalogue purposes upon request chronoglidesky@aol.com