Dragon Turtle/ Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air
Split 12"
LSE 014

The shared space on this split 12” vinyl is a celestial experience. The depth of field is adjusted by a natural collaboration between two artists; Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air (David Kresge), who plays on and off with Dragon Turtle (Tom Asselin and Brian Lightbody).

Spill Out The Night is Dragon Turtle's exploration, inspired by the cover photograph, a Hasselblad image captured by Jeremy Blakeslee; the night sky in the forest of Pennsylvania as the Orion constellation begins its drift towards winter. DT takes us on a 17 minute journey from drifting blues of ocean, to patches of dry land and the epiphanies embedded in the natural environment, using the sky as a map. It is a call to arms, a jubilant acceptance of embracing challenge, exploration and discovery through natural wonder, and realizing journeys through cycles in life. One might imagine Steve Reich wandering a desolate beach during a meteor shower while humming the Bar-Kay’s Soulfinger . He kneels to examine a bottle washed ashore, containing a cassette tape labeled "Echo & The Bunnymen / Jesus and Mary Chain".

On the flip side, for as macro as Dragon Turtle weaves their tale, Goodnight Stars Goodnight Air goes microscopic with Subluminal, as if looking through a high powered telescope into the deepest recesses of night. Where Dragon Turtle take inspiration from the warm rotations of summer, GSGA faces off with the cold winter sky, inspired by crystalline frozen nightscapes, deconstructed guitar drones, and broken electronics. Beautiful and monolithic walls of string scrapes slowly yield to dark melody. This will portal the in-tune listener toward tiny pinpoints of light, breaking through the atmosphere and gravitational pull of the physical plane, ultimately reaching sub-light speed and the lonely expanse that unfolds ahead.

This split 12" is an examination of the celestial, the intangible experience within the physical world, and the willing acceptance of the impermanence of seasons. The journey drifts from background to foreground, darkness to light.

*Recorded at One Forest and Kozy Korner
Produced by Tom Asselin
Mastered by JJ Golden