Janaka Stucky - Ascend Ascend : Live In Seattle with Lori Goldston [2LP Translucent Yellow with Opaque Yellow Platter]

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: NR126
Barcode: 0795154137114
Release Date: 12 May 2023
Genre: Experimental / Spoken Word

Limited standard weight 2LP on translucent yellow with opaque
yellow splatter packaged in a gatefold jacket.

Jimmy Page says, "Janaka Stucky is extraordinary, and his work riveting."

Janaka Stucky was the first writer published by Jack White's Third Man Books.

The album was recorded live with cellist Lori Goldston at the All Pilgrims Church, Seattle on a 7-city tour produced by Atlas Obscura in 2019.

Janaka Stucky is a poet, performer, and author of two poetry collections published by Third Man Books & Records. Janaka’s poems are at once incantatory, mystic, and epigrammatic.

His esoteric & occult influences, combined with a mesmeric approach to performance, create an almost ecstatic presence on stage. Of his live shows, VICE writes, “Janaka Stucky performs poetry readings like he's part fire-and-brimstone preacher, part doom-metal frontman … For him, lighting incense, dropping acid, and creating some of the most ecstatic lines of verse you’ve ever read is just another day at the office.”

Praised by Jimmy Page as “riveting,” Janaka Stucky’s book length poem, Ascend Ascend, published by Jack White’s Third Man Books in 2019, gets a mesmerizing treatment on this album by the same name, accompanied by experimental cellist Lori Goldston.  oldston,
known for her work with a number of acts—including Nirvana, Cat Power, and Earth— provides otherworldly layers of distortion and natural reverb over Stucky’s dirge-like vocal performance.

Recorded at the All Pilgrims Church in Seattle while Stucky was on a 7-city tour produced by Atlas Obscura in 2019, the performance is served well by the room’s ambiance and was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Mell Dettmer—who has engineered albums for acts such as Earth, Sunn O))), Master Musicians of Bukkake, and Wolves in the Throne Room.

Tracklist:1) Assiah, the Material World 2) Yetzirah, the World of Formation 3) Beri'ah, the World of Creation 4) Atziluth, the Archetypal World