TRACKLIST

1. Fallopian Silent Film. . . . . . . . .3:00  2. Saturday Morning Indoctrination. . . .6:26  3. Mother's Milk Stain. . . . . . . . . .4:52  4. Feather In A Needle. . . . . . . . . .3:32  5. The Persistence Of Visions . . . . . .6:04  6. Of Acids And Angels. . . . . . . . . .7:16  7. Smoke Span . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2:22  8. At The Foot Of An Eastern Elevator . .5:22  9. Geist Taxi . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4:44 10. Waltzing The White Light . . . . . . .5:33

The Geist Cycles began as a series of live collaborations acting out a certain transmutation, that of life into the afterlife. Despite the artists intentions, however, there are other equally prominent transitions happening here: Jason Corder’s shift from ambient post-rock to his own kind of poly-linguistic Babel, for one, a unified multiplicity comprised of crystalline, harmonious note showers and clanking digital transmissions.
The somewhat coarse, rocky surfaces are scoured with strings and vaguely ominous pulses, which flesh them out with more subtlety. Without the sense that someone is working the faders and knobs, and without the sense that the music has the earthly heaviness of limbs, the translucent pieces are able to glide, undergoing changes in musical mood, pace and structure, but always conveying the same sort of non-place.
Inasmuch as the sound is generally rather fluid, all whirling glint, fizzling static and distinctive hums merging and separating in an impersonal yet somewhat singular manner, the intermittent inclusion of strings, piano and appropriated female voices stir the air with nature’s hallucinagenics and lends these otherwise indistinct atmospheres a touch of pathos. The album isn’t exploratory but instinctive, and in that it remains poised and understated throughout, resulting in Corder’s most intimate and enveloping electronic environment yet. ~ by Max Schaefer, Cyclic Defrost

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CODE Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009 EAC extraction logfile from 16. September 2009, 10:56 Off The Sky / The Geist Cycles Used drive  : MATSHITABD-MLT UJ-220S  Adapter: 0  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 102 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Used output format              : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate                : 1024 kBit/s Quality                        : High Add ID3 tag                    : No Command line compressor        : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\wavpack.exe Additional command line options : -hmxd -w "GENRE=%m" -w "DATE=%y" -w "COMMENT=Released by a-one" %s %d TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 |  2:59.74 |        0    |    13498          2  |  2:59.74 |  6:28.00 |    13499    |    42598          3  |  9:27.74 |  4:54.00 |    42599    |    64648          4  | 14:21.74 |  3:32.00 |    64649    |    80548          5  | 17:53.74 |  6:04.00 |    80549    |  107848          6  | 23:57.74 |  7:16.00 |    107849    |  140548          7  | 31:13.74 |  2:22.00 |    140549    |  151198          8  | 33:35.74 |  5:24.00 |    151199    |  175498          9  | 38:59.74 |  4:44.00 |    175499    |  196798        10  | 43:43.74 |  5:33.00 |    196799    |  221773  Range status and errors Selected range     Filename C:\Rips\Off The Sky - The Geist Cycles.wav     Peak level 100.0 %     Range quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 864340A9     Copy CRC 864340A9     Copy OK No errors occurred AccurateRip summary Track  1  not present in database Track  2  not present in database Track  3  not present in database Track  4  not present in database Track  5  not present in database Track  6  not present in database Track  7  not present in database Track  8  not present in database Track  9  not present in database Track 10  not present in database None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database End of status report

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CODE REM GENRE "Abstract, IDM, Ambient, Minimal" REM DATE 2007 REM DISCID 870B8C0A REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5" PERFORMER "Off The Sky" TITLE "The Geist Cycles" FILE "Off The Sky - The Geist Cycles.wv" WAVE   TRACK 01 AUDIO     TITLE "Fallopian Silent Film"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 00:00:00   TRACK 02 AUDIO     TITLE "Saturday Morning Indoctrination"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 02:59:74   TRACK 03 AUDIO     TITLE "Mother's Milk Stain"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 09:27:74   TRACK 04 AUDIO     TITLE "Feather In A Needle"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 00 14:19:74     INDEX 01 14:21:74   TRACK 05 AUDIO     TITLE "The Persistence Of Visions"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 17:53:74   TRACK 06 AUDIO     TITLE "Of Acids And Angels"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 23:57:74   TRACK 07 AUDIO     TITLE "Smoke Span"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 31:13:74   TRACK 08 AUDIO     TITLE "At The Foot Of An Eastern Elevator"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 33:35:74   TRACK 09 AUDIO     TITLE "Geist Taxi"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 00 38:57:74     INDEX 01 38:59:74   TRACK 10 AUDIO     TITLE "Waltzing The White Light"     PERFORMER "Off The Sky"     INDEX 01 43:43:74