Rarefied Airs

by Glasspack

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Part One 18:52
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Part Two 18:42

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Glasspack - Rarefied Airs (2025, 12” / digital)

“Rarefied Airs” is the debut album by Glasspack, duo of Henry Birdsey and Ian McColm. Both Birdsey and McColm are part of an extended New Haven (CT) musician family (think of Stefan Christensen, Shirese, David Shapiro, Center, Figured, Tongue Depressor etc.). In Glasspack they fuse Birdsey’s bagpipes with McColm’s computerized sounds to hammer out rock solid modern fourth world music masterpiece.

“Rarefied Airs” offers two long pieces (both ticking at almost 19 minutes) where rich bagpipes landscapes melt together with ponds of repetitive electronics into haunted minimal grooves. No minds left to be hypnotized on this lovecraftian ghastly transmission between Connecticut and New England.

Must have for fans of: Oneida “Absolute 2”, Terry Riley “A Rainbow in Curved Air”, Jon Hassell / Brian Eno “Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics”

“Rarefied Airs” is released on Stoned to Death on 12” vinyl in edition of 200 copies.

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released May 2, 2025

Mastered by Jan Šamánek, typo and graphic design by Kateřina Rálišová. Cover photo by Ian McColm archives. Band photo by Austin Larkin.

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STONED TO DEATH records

Est. 2012 in Pardubice, Czech Republic

Owned and currated by half dozen of dirty weed smoking beer drinking krautrockin bears!

Focus: Czech underground / experimental / avantgarde scene. With quite frequent detours into worldwide ug.

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