Excelsior Ruth - Excelsior Ruth LP BUY LINK: https://highpriestessrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/excelsior-ruth Label: High Priestess Recordings (https://soundcloud.com/highpriestessrec) https://www.instagram.com/highpriestess.world > Excelsior Ruth (https://soundcloud.com/xlsior) https://www.instagram.com/exlruth Excelsior Ruth is a composer, DJ and producer born in the North-East of England but who currently resides in South London. On her eponymously titled debut, she combines a life-long love of euphoric trance with echoes of her live performances as exlRuth, which incorporate sound recordings, drone, traditional choral music and the makina backdrop of her youth. Embedded in community heritage, it’s a record that probes connections between the classical and contemporary. Gossamer harp drifts across time on ‘Haunt’, leading to the affecting arpeggios, strings and high BPMs of ‘Dream Of Night’, programmed, as much of the EP was, on classic 90s synthesisers, including the Roland JP8080 and Quasimidi Rave-0-Lution 309. Drinkwater’s ‘Dawn Return mix’ reduces ‘Dream Of Night’ down to a moment of 6am E-motion, limbs weaving through dry ice like mist on long-forgotten moors. A cathedral of angelic voices swells in ‘Dream Of You’, their hymn to oceanic feeling rooted to earth by a raining cascade of kicks. ‘Sleepy Hollow’ journeys further into deep, unspeakable bodily knowing, pushed & pulled between propulsion and stasis as fizzy high hats and restless melodies weave through shrouds of ambient pads. Words by Joe Roberts. High Priestess Recordings Tracks Recorded and Mixed at Acre Lane DJ Drinkwater Remix - Mixed by Peter Rocket Artwork by Dream Software & Charlie Maclagan, Design & Layout by Oliver Kay Tarot design by Al White, Poem by Gray Special thanks to Barnaby, Van Dyke Browne, Fizzy Disc, The Compound & Dawson's Heights Physical distribution from Rubadub and One Eye Witness