Some good words taken from reviews of our last album.

II

Listen to the whole album here:
https://torpedo-cyclope.bandcamp.com/

This vinyl:
Recorded by torpedo
Mix & master by @_the_atomic_garden_
Label @brokencloverrecords

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Some good words taken from reviews of our last album.

I

Listen to the whole album here:
https://torpedo-cyclope.bandcamp.com/

This vinyl:
Recorded by torpedo
Mix & master by @_the_atomic_garden_
Label @brokencloverrecords

#review #musicpress #noiserock #albumrelease #doublelp #postpunk #music #press #chroniques #album #punk #postrock #industrialmusic #ambient #MusicMagazine #webzines #vinylrecords

smoke signals / nerduban. 1968 [full album โ€ข double lp โ€ข analog psych noir rock]

Unearthed from a forgotten reel-to-reel tape labeled โ€œNerduban โ€“ Violet Lantern Sessions.โ€

This 30-track double LP was tracked in Spring 1968 at The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago โ€” a nocturnal journey of analog tremolo guitars, swirling Farfisa organs, brushed snares, modal jazz fragments, and hypnotic noir psychedelia. -Captured straight to mono tape โ€” no edits, no overdubs. -All bleed, hiss, and hum left intact. -Restored carefully from decayed tape and analog drift. โ€“ Let the echo pull you in.
Double LP โ€“ Reel-to-Reel Archive Edition

๐ŸŽต FULL TRACKLIST:

  • REEL A โ€“ Side One

00:00:00 โ€” 1. Signal in the Dust
00:02:22 โ€” 2. The Light Stays On
00:07:02 โ€” 3. Down from the Rooftop
00:11:54 โ€” 4. She Spoke in Tremolo
00:15:54 โ€” 5. Only the Drums Remember
00:19:43 โ€” 6. Room Full of Nothing
00:23:27 โ€” 7. Half a Cigarette
00:27:20 โ€” 8. Ash on the Snare

  • REEL A โ€“ Side Two

00:30:03 โ€” 9. Ceiling Fan Waltz
00:33:17 โ€” 10. Farfisa Lullaby
00:36:52 โ€” 11. The Back Door Swings
00:40:01 โ€” 12. No One Said Goodbye
00:43:09 โ€” 13. Velour Transmission
00:45:42
โ€” 14. Crying Through the Spring Tank
00:48:31 โ€” 15. Donโ€™t Wake the Light

  • REEL B โ€“ Side Three

00:51:20 โ€” 16. Dust Tape Bloom
00:57:00 โ€” 17. Violet Matches
00:59:44 โ€” 18. Flicker Hour
01:04:14 โ€” 19. Echo Static Love Song
01:07:03 โ€” 20. Ashtray Weather
01:10:43 โ€” 21. Mirage in 7/4
01:15:58 โ€” 22. Midnight Is a Window
01:20:02 โ€” 23. Farfisa of Babylon

  • REEL B โ€“ Side Four

01:23:52 โ€” 24. Ghosts Hum in B Minor
01:28:12 โ€” 25. She Left Before the Downbeat
01:32:29 โ€” 26. Tape Deck Gospel
01:36:14 โ€” 27. No Key, Just Room Tone
01:40:44 โ€” 28. Amp Sleeps with One Eye Open
01:44:58 โ€” 29. Last Call at the Violet Lantern
01:48:23 โ€” 30. Smoke Signals (Title Track)

โ€”โ€”Recorded: Spring 1968. Location: The Violet Lantern Club, South Side Chicago ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Format: Mono โ€ข Tape-Saturated โ€ข Raw Analog Mix. Restored by: Nerduban Archive Circle

LINER NOTES: From the inner sleeve of the 1968 Violet Lantern pressing: โ€œNerduban never played for the crowd. They played for the shadows in the room.โ€

Recorded in the spring of 1968 inside the dim-lit rehearsal chamber of Chicagoโ€™s Violet Lantern Club, Smoke Signals captures a moment that feels both ancient and eerily current. This isnโ€™t music made for the radio, but for the tape deck of a forgotten basement โ€” where echo swirls, tremolo pulses, and stories never find their endings. Every hiss you hear is real. Every amp buzz, every tape drift, every ghost in the left channel โ€” it all stayed. No edits. No second takes. This was Nerduban at their most honest: ambient, abstract, moody, raw. With analog equipment humming just past the point of breakdown, they mapped out a noir-psychedelic terrain that sways between modal jazz and smoke-drenched rock sรฉance. You donโ€™t listen to this record โ€” you drift through it. โ€” W. K. HEINGART Archivist & Engineer Nerduban Archive Circle, 2025 

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Nerduban โ€“ Smoke Signals (1968) [Full Album โ€ข Double LP โ€ข Analog Psych Noir Rock]

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