*Limited to an edition of 300 individually numbered copies for the world* This 7" serves as a highly limited and lovingly produced companion piece to Taylor Deupree's recent Shoals album. The clear vinyl comes packaged inside a heavy chipboard sleeve, letterpressed with dark green ink, and the crisp brown paper inner-sleeve brandishes an embossed 12k logo. Furthermore, each of the 300 copies is hand-numbered. Even before we get to the music it's a lovely item, and an object of desire for any Deupree or 12k fan. About that music: the A-side features a specially edited version of Shoals album track 'A Fading Found', which has been cut down to a size more befitting of a 7" single release (a lean 4:16, down from the expansive twelve minutes of the original) while the B-side is an exclusive track, 'Sere' conceived in the same spirit as the superb Shoals tracklist. Taylor Deupree is well and truly back to his best with this material, and while it initially seems a little peculiar that such abstract, extended compositions should be reformatted as short and snappy vignettes, it undoubtedly works. 'Sere' is worth the admission price alone, finding Deupree cultivating the most discreet and subtle of melodic profiles from a processed sonic environment constituted from room sounds, sonorous percussion and countless strange whirrs, creaks and reflections. Not to be missed.A A Fading Found (Edition) B Sere
