Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Ballades 6xCS
11.5.14 by Mike Haley

You know that sound a dump truck makes when it’s backing up. Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! etc… You know what I’m talking about. Just to be safe, make that sound in your head right now while I explain this substantial six cassette box set by Motion Sickness Of Time Travel. It’s a biggie and I don’t want anyone to get run over. So each month, from September of 2013 to August of the following year, Rachel Evans recorded and self released 12 CDrs, each devoted to that month’s full moon. The tracks were fairly epic in length, all hovering around the 55 minute mark, and given names based on The Farmers’ Almanac’s ‘Native American full moon names’ (“Ballade for a Sturgeon Moon”, “Ballade for a Strawberry Moon”, “Ballade for a Crow Moon”, and so on). This here box set, “Ballades”, collects all of those recordings for a nearly 11 hour celestial listening experience. Luscious synthesizer run offs and fragile vocal drone in side long bursts, all housed in a brick of a vinyl box with a lunar calendar designed by Evans. Every tape in this monster is pro dubbed and imprinted. You can listen to all of the ballades, in full, on her Bandcamp, or get a quick shot of everything below. “Ballades” is obtainable for $55 from Hooker Vision, and I believe down to the last few copies of the 100 made.

If you haven’t stopped making the dump truck backing up sound in your head yet, do so now.