Varg | Skaeliptom (LP) [NE101]

Varg | Skaeliptom
Label: Northern Electronics – NE101
Format: Vinyl, 12", LP, Black Vinyl
Released| 28 Feb 2025

Sincere dysphoria is a disarming tonic, and 'Skaeliptom' is steeped in it, if not fortified by it. Quietly appearing on the Periferin label in 2013, Varg's debut recording presents with grave intent filtered through a pacifying melancholic haze. A remastered version now arrives on Northern Electronics.

Originally disclosed on cassette with a ziplocked excerpt of a cindered church, 'Skaeliptom' is a depressive tour of Varg's early experiments. As if bleached unconscious by northern winters, his touch is delicate and remote. Each track is gently struck into motion by a cadaverous reverb that prefigures the bare ensemble of instruments Varg employs. Militantly dejected, the short tether of melody to be found on 'Skaeliptom' is a brilliant funerary bloom that undoes corporeal restraints and authorises us to withdraw.

- Live experiments recorded by Varg in Hebbershålet 2012-2013.
- Remastered from tape by Giuseppe Tillieci at EnissLab, Rome.
- Artwork by Arvid Wretman.
- Originally released on Periferin in 2013.

TRACKLIST:
A1    Stoorn
A2    :)
A3    Nalta Laisamt
B1    Fauskätorpe
B2    Ursviken
B3    Öhn
B4    ):
B5    Strigoi (Grav's I Sävenäs Edit)

# Experimental # Ambient # Ritual # Industrial