Gaul Plus returns from harvest to present his weathered new single, "Mercury Fountain" featuring a long-revered spiritual guide, Japan's beloved POiSON GiRL FRiEND. We're thrilled to share this special collaboration, which will feature prominently on his upcoming EP on Rank+File, "Hissing Nest". He had this to say about the symbiotic union:
"Over a span of 10 or more years, and as many trips, I (we) have been buying spirit-driven noise records on the 20th floor of apartment buildings (across from crematoriums generally) asking panther-eyed doms which Provoke photographer ordered which drink and how many, or following the architecture of Angel Dust, walking beneath the interlocking armored whale spines, trying to understand how the same artist could have produced both a hit city-pop record and another that sounded like burning chrome swirling in miso soup. These are just a few of the millions of threads that hold my Borghesian path together; the path of the pilgrim instead of the tourist. Although it has no end, it certainly has its vista points, and few, if any, have elicited more joyous contemplation than the point of intersection with Noriko, someone whose records have drawn every shade of emotion out of me; whether a tall grass field I’ve sat in, or a half bursted bubble that nearly took my head off. To hear her voice drifting through the dusty corridors of this drum pattern, eternally tip-toeing just outside this wonked-up whirlpool, is beyond honorifics for me. It is truly the sense of life, and I am so grateful for it."
Written and Produced by Gaul Plus
Vocals by POiSON GiRL FRiEND
Mastered and Mixed by Loric Sih
Artwork by Gina Lee
Photography by Eric Smith
