Engrave
Benediction
1996 (no label)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nathan Morris – all instruments and noises
Silver Side:
- Lebensgefahr
- Euro-Span
Gold Side:
- Soul Probe
- Intercession
This tape is ambient noise electronic instrumental music that is quite mellow, but also good background music when you are in the right mood for it. Of course, it is not all mellow music, as “Soul Probe” has a nice beat to it. Nathan Morris was apparently the person, or one of the people, behind Velvet Empire Music (which often put out releases with Flaming Fish Music). Engrave had a CD after this demo called Polaris, which had these four songs on it. The interesting thing about this tape itself is that the “Silver Side” is spray painted with metallic silver paint, and the “Gold Side” is spray painted with metallic gold paint. I know these demos didn’t sell huge numbers, but still a nice (but time-consuming) touch for small numbers. But that was often the interesting thing about underground tape scene – details like that would set some demos apart.
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