If you’ve been meaning to check out Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Constellation imprint but don’t know the first place to start outside of a few usual suspects (Godspeed’s various projects, Sandro Perri, and Colin Stetson), now’s the time because it just dropped a free mixtape of 2013 material that includes forthcoming releases like a killer Larry Gus remix and the post-Glissandro 70 pairing of Perri and Craig Dunsmuir.
Check it, straight from the source:
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Constellation Sampler 2013:
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART – “Yudaghdegh El-ra3ey Walal-Ghanam”
ESMERINE – “Translator’s Clos (Part II)”
MATANA ROBERTS – “was the sacred day” *
SALTLAND – “ICA”
DUNDASA 80 – “Vila Inerane” *
SANDRO PERRI – “Love & Light (Larry Gus Panamix)” *
LAND OF KUSH – “The Pit (Edit)”
SARAH NEUFELD – “Forcelessness” (feat. Nils Frahm)
COLIN STETSON – “High Above The Great Green Sea”
GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR – “STRUNG LIKE LIGHTS AT THE PRINTEMPS ERABLE”
* Previously unreleased