LP is pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a jacket printed on 100% recycled 24pt CCNB in full colour with matte UV varnish with a 12"x12" screenprinted insert card and download card.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on 100% recycled 18pt CCNB paperboard in full colour with a matte UV varnish.
1. Awake on foreign shores
2. Judges
3. The stars in his head (Dark Lights Remix)
4. All the days I've missed you (ILAIJ I)
5. From no part of me could I summon a voice
6. A dream of water
7. Home
8. Lord I just can't keep from crying sometimes
9. Clothed in the skin of the dead
10. All the colors bleached to white (ILAIJ II)
11. Red Horse (Judges ll)
12. The righteous wrath of an honorable man
13. Fear of the unknown and the blazing sun
14. In love and in justice
Running time: 00:44:44
LP is pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal (Germany) and comes in a jacket printed on 100% recycled 24pt CCNB in full colour with matte UV varnish with a 12"x12" screenprinted insert card and download card.
CD comes in a custom gatefold jacket printed on 100% recycled 18pt CCNB paperboard in full colour with a matte UV varnish.
"It is the most exciting and devastating record that I have heard in seasons; it is a roaring, terrible sadness. Twenty microphones, planted like roses around a room - capturing the ripple of notes, the wails of resonance, the violent clack of fingers on keys and the shriek of Stetson's own voice, sounding through the horn; like Stetson has two hearts, four lungs, can sing two different sorrows at once. Judges sounds like nothing else. It is like being struck by a comet. It is only January but there is an album of the year." – Said The Gramophone
"First question, how does he do this? Recorded without loops or overdubs... all of his orchestration was captured in the studio, using 20 microphones. The effect is one that mimics a small band or overdubbed tour de force. With this second volume he has enlarged and strengthened his palate. It is pure revelation." – All About Jazz
"Colin Stetson is one of our greatest living saxophone players. Maybe more than anyone, he is taking the instrument to NEW places, with NEW technique. Moreover, he takes an acoustic instrument and prepares it with multiple microphones and contact mics, making it a draining, rewarding, physical and visceral expierience. It is fucking impossible, what you are hearing on this record. There are so many, CRUSHINGLY beautiful sounds coming out of one person, at ONCE, that it makes your skin tremble, your mind go blank, and your eyes close." – Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
"To get a sense of the saxophonist’s self-sufficiency, think of him as a nonsinging singer-songwriter. His command of circular breathing and multiphonics will prick up the ears of any experimental-improv buff, but Stetson’s real coup is the alchemical way he channels these raw materials into fully outfitted tunes—the kind that loop in your head involuntarily." – Time Out New York
"Some of these tracks have so much sound, so many cross-crossing and overlapping elements, it simply doesn't seem possible that one musician is making them in real time. "Judges" has clattering percussion, a menacing bassline, and a growling lead element that sounds like an anguished voice processed in a strange way. Well, the percussion turns out to be a close-mic'd recording of the instruments' keys being manipulated, the low-end comes from the fact that Stetson plays the enormous bass saxophone and has a good sense of how to underpin a tune with a deep pulse, and the lead voice is indeed his voice – Stetson vocalizing through the horn as he blows. That all of these things come together at once in a piece that is compelling and highly musical is nothing short of miraculous." – Pitchfork
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