{"id":1129,"date":"2014-11-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2014-11-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:00:00","slug":"video-for-secret-pyramids-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2014\/11\/video-for-secret-pyramids-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"video for Secret Pyramid&#8217;s &#8220;Outside&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111629341?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH IN HD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally released in 2011 on cassette by the Canadian micro imprint Nice-Up International, \u201cThe Silent March\u201d is the precursor to 2013\u2019s \u201cMovements of Night\u201d and can be seen as something of a mission statement for Amir Abbey\u2019s skyriding Secret Pyramid project. Critics have compared the Secret Pyramid sound to the more blasted entries in the Popul Vuh catalog and to Flying Saucer Attack\u2019s cherished fuzz devotionals, and indeed Abbey\u2019s reverb-drenched songforms and titanic edifices of drone do feel at times as though they\u2019ve been cut from the same cloth. Opener \u201cOutside\u201d might be best understood as the soundtrack to slow-motion video footage of a first-person plunge over some impossibly grand waterfall on an endless loop, as tumbling overtones fight for air amongst turbid plumes of distortion. \u201cStill Return\u201d finds acoustic guitar figures struggling to escape a blinding mist, their resolution finally arriving in the form of the sublime tranquility of the titular track which follows. Abbey masterfully weaves themes of birth, death, nostalgia, and existential dread into an album which is as cohesive as it is all-consuming, a spell which seeks to simultaneously welcome and protect against darkness in its many forms. This edition of \u201cThe Silent March\u201d features an improved mixdown by Abbey and a remaster by James Plotkin to insure maximum transport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"studentsofdecay.com\" target=\"_blank\">studentsofdecay.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN HD Originally released in 2011 on cassette by the Canadian micro imprint Nice-Up International, \u201cThe Silent March\u201d is the precursor to 2013\u2019s \u201cMovements of Night\u201d and can be seen as something of a mission statement for Amir Abbey\u2019s skyriding Secret Pyramid project. Critics have compared the Secret Pyramid sound to the more blasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1030,"url":"https:\/\/www.fraufraulein.com\/billy\/2013\/09\/video-for-secret-pyramid-a-descent\/","url_meta":{"origin":1129,"position":0},"title":"video for Secret Pyramid: &#8220;A Descent&#8221;","author":"billy gomberg","date":"September 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"watch in HD! from the 2013 album Movements of Night released by Students of Decay http:\/\/studentsofdecay.com\/post\/54557... 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