anthéne / Breathing Sky / Polar Seas Recordings

Toronto-based artist Bradley Sean Alexander Deschamps’ solo catalogue, as anthéne, online catalogue goes back around a decade. That of his label, Polar Seas Recordings, goes back a little further. BBTT, however, only discovered Duchamps’ work in 2023, via a collaboration with site favourite, IKSRE, titled “Shifting Seasons”. Deschamps’ latest release is a 2 track package, aimed to raise money for the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. Both compositions / improvisations are 12-minute plus ambient pieces, generated entirely from treated electric guitar. “breathing sky” is a tender vibration, a hymn of a hum, rich in harmonics and tone. Flowing, unwinding and aching, a longing. Folding in field recordings. A crackling, natural static, surrounding its metallic beauty. Beaten, bruised, distorting, buckling. Marking a sense of quiet, noble mourning. A moving forward, because there is no going back. “a flash of light” rises slowly from subliminal levels. A drone summoning a steely, silvered…