***As AL CISNEROS (SLEEP, OM) continues to move through the dub zone, a journey over a decade in length, his music and production continue to evolve and deepen. The sinew of the bass strings sets the pocket with ever-focused raw and relentless drive, while the rhythm section lays out an elaborate series of movements to roll in perfect accord with its multi-segmented melody. As melodies of the ancient world emerge prayerfully from the mist above the fray, all is right in all of the worlds that we can hope to know. On the “Akeldama” version, the mixing desk becomes its own instrument
7" $13.75
04/21/2023
***A 7x7-inch box collection from AL CISNEROS (SLEEP, OM) containing three unreleased tracks plus remastered songs originally released on Sinai, ZamZam and Drag City labels. Includes a bonus patch and sticker.
fpo $63.95
05/20/2022
***A brand new 7-inch EP from AL CISNEROS of OM and SLEEP. Two songs on clear vinyl in the usual minimal packaging.
7" $6.75
11/11/2014
***The second solo 7-inch outing from OM bassist and vocalist AL CISNEROS on his own Sinai imprint. “‘Teresa of Avila’ is a stark rhythm that might lead to more people with spikes to buy Von Moritz Trio albums.”—Holy Mountain. Two tracks.
7" $6.30
03/19/2013
***“Bassist/vocalist for heavy music’s most methodical and verbose purveyors of polysyllabic lyrics, OM, AL CISNEROS has just released a solo 7” on his own Sinai label. If you’ve immersed yourself in OM’s latest mystical, mantric, metal-free works, God Is Good and the Afro-Arabic-leaning Advaitic Songs, ‘Dismas’ won’t come as too much of a surprise. While the label copy implies that ‘it could be a tribute to Alice Coltrane's World Galaxy album in the form of a reggae 45’—a truly exciting prospect—’Dismas’ strikes me as more of a languorously tense strain of the sort of lysergic dub coming from WordSound artists like Scarab, Equations of Eternity, and Qaballah Steppers in the ’90s. Whatever the case, Cisneros has created a real gem here. Various holy men intone god chatter (’The lord is the supreme reality/Om shanti shanti shanti,’ etc.) over a sumptuous spread of resonant, sinuous bass peregrinations, vibraphone, cello (?), congas, and tablas. Everything is ergonomically optimal, precisely arrayed, and spiritually centered. The B-side, ‘Version,’ is slightly slower and more spacious.”—Dave Segal (The Stranger). Packaged in white paper sleeves.
7" $6.30
01/15/2013