Claude Speeed – Sun Czar Temple

Scotland’s Claude Speeed first came to our attention via his epic 2012 remix of Kuedo’s `Work Live & Sleep In Collapsing Space’. With a history in various bands such as RUSSIA and American Men, his work draws from Scottish post rock, 90s and 00s electronica, American minimalism, noise & drone. `Sun Czar Temple’ is an epic set of songs that distort emotional songwriting with textured synthetic ambience and computer noise. Dreams on hard disk. The EP opens with the epic `Traumzeuge’, a piece for digitally obliterated piano and plugins taking its inspiration from territories of culture shock and insomnia. Starting with monolithic slabs of SOLAR PARALLAX distortion, the layers of intensity build until eventually dropping out, revealing gentle, warm guitar harmonics and tender vocals.