perfecting a beautiful record

since it’s the poet’s eye that connects us to the story he means to tell in this lyric

and its largely instrumental and drone-like quality was the process of the Ohia eluding itself and its own tendencies

layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion

“The Return of Genghis Khan” conflates her fascination with the Mongol warlord

VOID - Sessions 1981-83 LP Rock perfecting a beautiful recordThis pressing is on blue vinyl. Thirty miles north of Washington there is a town called Columbia, one of the first planned communities built in the US, and in retrospect, the perfect birthplace for a band as completely chaotic as Void. Their DC debut was in 1980 at the first Wilson Center show, a marathon 15 band affair largely organized by the Bad Brains. When Void started a song it was as if each member was playing his own parts as fast as humanly