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What made SeiTang such an integral part of the improv based bands he’s worked with, his ability to listen and communicate, reacting in time to his bandmatess aethetic and musical choices, is the same thing that makes Stygian Stride a successful endeavor. When writing and recording the album, he was reacting similarly to the different facets of the machines’ unique temperaments, learning the particular peronalities of each piece of equipment and facilitating the creation of something greater than the
sum of its parts.
While melodic and rhymic repetitiveness are the backbone of Stygian Stride’s music, each piece subtly evolves at its own pace and in its own way. “Hindsight” is pushed forward by a steady, muted kick, and washes of synth that coalesce into a ghostly melody. “Drift” features multi-layered rhythmic textures that shift in and out of phase, anchored by a heavy drone, and “Taiga” features a similarly phased synthesizer arppegio. The album is bookended by two beatless tracks. While “Celestial Stems” opens the album with gentle, hypnotic sequencer patterns, closer “Fade Into Bolivian” is one long, slow-moving forboding organ melody over a deep, anxious drone reminiscent of Popul Vuh.
Rather than composing and recording on a laptop, SeiTang sought out and collected vintage, analog equipment and conceived the album without MIDI synching. It was recorded by Jason Meagher at Black Dirt Studios (D. Charles Speer, Jack Rose, Expo ’70, Blues Control), and mastered by CGB at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin. Stygian Stride shows a side of SeiTang’s artistry coming to light that has up to this point laid dormant, just under the surface. This album is the beginning of an exploration of the intersection of the mind-expanding and the mechanized.

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Stygrian Stride is the solo guise of the New York based musician Jimy SeiTang
Jimy SeiTang was a member of Psychic Ills and is cur-rently a member of New York experimental/improv/psych trio Rhyton with Dave Shuford (D. Charles Speer and the Helix, No Neck Blues Band) and Spencer Herbst (Messages, Matta Llama).

Rhyton released albums on both Thrill Jockey and Three Lobed in 2012
Stygian Stride is an album of gauzy electronic music reminiscent of Gas and the classic era of Mille Plateaux and Chain Reaction, with nods to Manuel Göttsching and Tangerine Dream.
The album artwork was created by Arik Roper (Sleep, SunnO))), Howlin Rain, Earth, High on Fire, Weedeat- er) The album was recorded entirely on analog equip-
ment without MIDI synching at Black Dirt Studios by Jason Meagher (D. Charles Speer, Jack Rose, Expo 70, Blues Control)

The album was mastered and cut to vinyl by Christoph Grote-Beverborg (CGB) at Dubplates & Mastering in Berlin
CD version is limited to 500 copies worldwide and packaged in a 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold package.
LP version also limited to 500 units worldwide and pressed on high quality virgin vinyl with free download coupon