Full of repeating motifs, layered Melotron melodies, bits of percussion, acoustic instrument treatments, boys choir, blurry droneage and manipulated vinyl and cassettes; this is music left over from an abandoned Russian planetarium spectacular! Where solar flares and milky ways map their way across the domed sphere and large chunks of space crunk crack and explode in silence.

Vulcanus 68 have left the moulded basement and dusty lo -fi musique concrete chambers behind, leaping up to solar clouds with this classically inspired, sonicly cosmic album.

Originally recorded and sourced from a single “jam” session on April 23rd 2010, it wasn’t until a full year later that the group revisited the stellar -solar session and began editing the hours of sounds which finally became Contours and Colours. As Blum was working on the debut release for The Talking Book, Blum’s collaboration with Faith No More’s Bill Gould, and Cramp with Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista on their latest release, In Animal Tongue; ideas and experiences from those collaborations seeped their way into the construction of the record. A real intent emerged to keep and even accentuate the melodic sensibility from the original session, a much different path than their first two records. There was also a renewed interest in experiencing a collection of music rather than small unrelated pieces.

On their second release for Gigante Sound, Vulcanus 68 rein in the dense collage of scattershot sample manipulation from their self-titled debut for a deeper, more focused sound. The duo has incorporated the concréte exploration as just one element in a dense stew of drones and electronics that takes the listener even further out to the edges of the eerie tone swamp they call home.