Companion Environ by Landon Caldwell & Flower Head Ensemble

Landon Caldwell returns for the newest of many tapes released this year with Companion Environ, this time with a new permutation of the Flower Head Ensemble moniker & project first revealed on his Simultaneous Systems tape (released April 2021 on Moon Glyph). This outing finds Landon joined by familiar Indianapolis soundscape practitioners, as well as by Motoki Asaoka (New York; also of Dayton Exchange) and Jim Marlowe (Lousville; also of Equipment Pointed Ankh and more). Born of generative soundscapes created by Caldwell, the individual players were sent a bed of tones for which to lay new sounds over. While completely unaware of what one another would contribute, the two tracks on Companion Environ seamlessly meld different perspectives on cosmic, spiritual and intuitive music together to create a thought provoking, calming yet wide-eyed, amorphous new world of sound.

Midwestern sound documentarians currently operating a cassette label digitally and physically out of Indianapolis, Ind. by Mark Tester and Landon Caldwell