Extractioning

Drekka is the work of Michael Anderson, with an occasional rotating cast of characters primarily drawn from the Day2 Alliance (a community and collective of artists, labels, musicians and filmmakers which has been creating experimental folk and skewed pop masterpieces for almost a decade). (Anderson also runs BlueSanct, a Day2 label responsible for releases by Black Forest/Black Sea, The Iditarod, In Gowan Ring, Low, The Pilot Ships, Static Films, Vollmar and more.) Extractioning was originally recorded in 1998 as two cassette EPs ('Exactioning' and 'Hermitage Two'). This new reissue extracts the best tracks from those two EPs into a coherent body -- remastered, resequenced and then packaged in all its shiny metallic glory. Called "strikingly diverse and surprisingly upbeat, shedding the acid folk veil and treading into acoustic indie pop at times," Extractioning is cinematic, vague and endlessly hopeful. For fans of Devendra Banhart, The Microphones/Mt. Eerie, and Xiu Xiu.