ERSTLAUB
On Becoming An Island
HPLL025
Highpoint Lowlife 2007
01 Track. 43mins49secs

Second in the Highpoint Lowlife series of exclusive digital releases and very limited CDRs is the latest offering by Scottish artist Dave Fyans, here operating under his Erstlaub guise. Hailing from Perth, on the East coast of Scotland, Fyans has previously been spotted on the excellent Some Paths Lead Back Again compilation put together by the Marcia Blaine School For Girls crew just under three years ago, where he contributed three tracks as Daigoro. More recently, he contributed a remix on the digital-only companion EP to the Marcia Blaine album, and he has self-released a handful of CDR albums. Continue Reading »

The excellent Highpoint Lowlife will be releasing two very limited albums in coming weeks, starting with Tigrics’s Synki on 16 October, followed by Erstlaub’s beautifully titled One Becoming An Island on 30 October.

HPLL recently affirmed its commitment to releasing music as beautiful artefacts destined to collectors, and to this effect, both albums will be released at just 100 physical copies on CDR housed in white DVD cases, with handdrawn artwork by Tigrics for his album and artwork designed by Mathieu Ranson for Erstlaub’s release. Both albums will also be made available as digital FLAC download from the HPLL website from the respective release date.

Synki features nine original tracks using field recording and ‘his own micro modular mad scientist composition’, while On Becoming An Island features just one ambient track spreading over just under forty four minutes.

Highpoint Lowlife | Tigrics | Erstlaub