Drone Records

SKELDOS - Ilges

Format: MC

Label & Cat.Number: Skeldos SLS-04

Release Year: 2018

Note: most favoured release by Lithuanian drone-newcomer SKELDOS - two wonderfully breathing, resonating pieces based on accordeon, voice, Lithuanian zither and guitar, plinspired by a poem from the Lithuanian writer ANTANAS SKEMA; there's so much beauty and melancholy and sadness in here, it's almost unbearable.. lim. 75 copies in handmade/printed cardboard cover with bag & download code... SKELDOS will soon appear in the "Drone-Mind" LP series!!

Price (incl. 19% VAT): €9.00

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"Ilgės” (en: "Caretakers of Yearning") - the third album by Skeldos.

The album was inspired by a poem by the Lithuanian writer Antanas Škėma titled “A Lie”, which talks about the hope that there is something important beyond the desolate routine. Two extended pieces awash in melancholy and longing revolve around a silent question: perhaps that which is crucial is really nearby?

“Ilgės” was recorded in 2015-2018 using acoustic instruments (accordion, Lithuanian zither, guitar) as primary sound sources, with their imperfect creaks and resonant echoes intended to make the vast sonic horizons sound close.

The album is released in an edition of 100 copies, out of which 25 are an exclusive release with a silver print. The cassettes are wrapped in handmade packaging made from fading recycled paper. Each copy comes with a digital download code.

“Still, what lay behind the hundred twenty fifth door?”