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If you want to buy Asva music on CD or Vinyl please message us!
Futurist's Against The Ocean CD $12 LP $25 (clear vinyl, triple gatefold)
What You Don't Know Is Frontier CD $12
Shipping:
USA CD $4 LP $6
Europe CD $7 LP $10
SA, Canada CD $5 LP $8
Pacific CD $8 LP $12
Press for Asva What You Don't Know Is Frontier:
It does not feel right to position Asva’s What You Don’t Know Is Frontier within a zeitgeist, for its power seems to have no fixed temporal point other than its own. For that very reason, it is 2008’s most compelling record in the field of extreme music.
Frieze Magazine January 2009
"Vast yet intimate, its slo-mo soundscapes resonate with decaying guitar bombast, desolate organ and wracked, wordless female vocals" 4/5 MOJO
"Taking brute force and seismic impact of Metal and using it as a foundation for exploring the noisier end of drone and the darker side of Ambient...while sacrificing none of Metal's sheer impact. This music is both atmospheric and enormously powerful [and] redefines 'big' music as something vast and comfortless, but by applying an irresistible dynamic and executing it with elegant brutality, it's a darkness that irresistibly beckons" THE WIRE
"Its intricate lightness and soulful resonance, its humble humanity, its bruised but not broken inner strength, its grown-upness, its forgiving defiance, is rarely found in the metal genre. Not a record for passive consumption, "...Frontier shows you another way of thinking about life; a bona fide piece of art, then" TERRORIZER - 9/10 ALBUM OF THE MONTH
"The band's latest outpouring..continues their exploration of internalising instrumental blacknes, forming bleak soundscapes that owe much to mainmain Stuart Dahlquist's past" METAL HAMMER
"Looming drones, funerary organs and the occasional twang of Spaghetti Western guitar to bewildering effect...the album is also permeated by a veiled sense of hope, lingering, tantalising even after its last redemtive glimmers have long since spluttered out" 7/10 ROCKSOUND
"Asva's second album seems to start from that place of warm darkness and humbling, majestic absence - seems to explore it, and then build out of it new structures of great simplicity and gravity...I would like it with me at the end of time" PLAN B - LEAD ALBUM REVIEW
"The band extols the virtues of all that is great and good in doom" ROCK A ROLLA
"/WYDKIF/ is such a relief - the album SUNN0))) should have released - a terrifying drone that makes villagers bolt their windows and stay indoors and summons unholy tentacles from the bowels of the Earth... assuredly a classic" 4/5 THE SKINNY
Wire June 2008 Avant Rock reviewd by Tom Ridge
Asva
What You Don't Know is Frontier
Southern CD
Led by former Burning Witch member Stuart Dahlquist, Asva are another in a line of groups taking the brute force and seismic impact of Metal and using it as a foundation for exploring the noisier end of drone and the darker side of Ambient. Asva do this while sacrificing none of Metal's sheer impact. This music is both atmospheric and enormously powerful, with grinding riffs offset by swathes of organ and the sombre sonorities of drones and wordless chanting. Over four tracks, Asva's music is laid out and stripped down, exposing a very cathartic sense of desolation at its core. This redefines 'big' music as something vast and comfortless, but by applying an irresistable dynamic and executing it with elegant brutality, it's darkness that irresistibly beckons.
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