{"product_id":"jake-blanchard-divination-vinyl-lp-feeding-tube-pre-order-out-12-4-26","title":"Jake Blanchard - Divination (Vinyl LP, Feeding Tube) PRE-ORDER - Out 12\/4\/26","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a pre-order. It will ship on or around 12\/4\/26\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube records bring you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a medical diary turned psychedelic séance where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJake Blanchard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e summons the shahi baaja from somewhere beneath the skin. Jake is perhaps best known for his remarkable visual work, having created sleeves and artwork for artists including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePelt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eMike Gangloff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Dawson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with his artwork for Dawson's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ruby Cord\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e receiving third place in the 2022 Art Vinyl album-cover awards. Jake Blanchard plays the electric shahi baaja, that beautiful beast of an instrument sitting somewhere between the Indian bulbul tarang, the Japanese taishōgoto and an electrical nervous system caught in a thunderstorm. Under normal circumstances it already sounds like an object with one foot in this world and another somewhere considerably stranger. In Jake's hands it becomes something else again, a machine for pulling sounds out of the walls. This is not wellness music. This is ritual music for when the body has become an unruly piece of machinery. The album was shaped around Jake's routine with the music assembled in the spaces that illness, pain, medication, scans and recovery allowed. What emerges is a strange kind of alchemical diary, part pharmacopoeia, part exorcism, part electrical weather system. A nod, a salute, and a very heartfelt thank you to those strange and wonderful human beings who donate their bone marrow, people willing to give a piece of themselves so that somebody else gets to keep going. If \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is concerned with the body's mysteries, its machinery and its strange capacity for repair, then there could hardly be a more fitting title. Here Jake is joined by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eDead Sea Apes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the shahi baaja becomes part of something heavier, deeper and considerably less interested in respecting the boundaries between improvisation, drone, psychedelic rock and free-form sonic excavation. There is a particularly strange beauty to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e because Jake's physical limitations have not resulted in a diminished musical language. If anything, they have forced the music to become more concentrated. The extended improvisational sprawl of earlier work has been replaced by something more deliberate, short bursts, accumulated fragments, pressure building over time until the pieces begin to reveal themselves. Jake's work has always existed somewhere between the ancient and the futuristic. The shahi baaja is already a time-travelling instrument, but on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDivination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e it sounds as if it has been dragged through a hospital corridor, plugged into an electrical substation and then handed over to a shaman.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackpot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68058893091034,"sku":null,"price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/5705\/3402\/files\/FTR845LP_PROD.jpg?v=1794011124","url":"https:\/\/jackpotrecords.com\/products\/jake-blanchard-divination-vinyl-lp-feeding-tube-pre-order-out-12-4-26","provider":"Jackpot Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}