BSLT 008 LP · Cassette · Digital Ines Kald Eight tracks recorded in one night inside a basalt quarry, one an hour from 22:00 to 06:00, with the tape left running. [Pre-order from €9](https://basalt.laarpi.com/#formats) - **Out** Fri 20 Nov 2026 - **Length** 47:52 - **Pressed** 500 LP / 200 tapes Move to light it Drag to light and turn it Drag to turn it # Obsidian Hours > Obsidian Hours, the new LP from Ines Kald on BASALT Tapes: eight tracks recorded in one night inside a basalt quarry, one an hour from 22:00 to 06:00. Pre-order on vinyl, cassette or download. 22:00The tape starts ## Lava that cooled too fast to organise itself. That is all obsidian is. No crystals, no grain, nothing inside to tell it which way to break, so it breaks in curves: rings spreading from the point of impact, one inside the next. Ines Kald made this record the same way. One night in the Halde basalt quarry, eight microphones in the dark, no overdubs, no second takes. The tape ran from 22:00 until it was light enough to read the reels. - Edge 3 nm - Index n 1.49 - Silica 73% - Fracture Conchoidal 22:01Struck once ## One night, broken into eight. One track an hour. Side A runs 22:00 to 02:00, side B from 02:00 until the birds. Turn the sound on and run the light over a piece to hear its hour. 1. Quench 22:00 5:48 The first take. Tape hiss, a door, the quarry still warm from the day. 2. Pitchstone 23:00 6:12 Bowed steel against the cut face. The room answers half a second late. 3. Conchoidal 00:00 6:21 One strike on a sheet of glass, heard from eight places at once. 4. Flow Banding 01:00 5:37 A slow organ drone that the cold kept pulling out of tune. 5. Perlite 02:00 6:04 Side B. Water dripping into a steel drum, played back through the drum. 6. Devitrify 03:00 7:15 The longest hour. Almost nothing happens, and it takes its time. 7. Magnetite 04:00 4:58 A compass needle, a contact mic and a magnet on a string. 8. Hydration Rind 05:00 5:37 The birds start before the light does. We left them in. Total 47:52 Side A 23:58 Side B 23:54 05:15Under the loupe ## Every fracture is a groove. Strike obsidian and it splits in concentric ripples; geologists call it conchoidal fracture. Tilt a record under a lamp and the same rings come up. Side A was cut at half speed so they stay that clean: four bands, each as wide as the hour it holds. 1. 01 Quench 5:48 2. 02 Pitchstone 6:12 3. 03 Conchoidal 6:21 4. 04 Flow Banding 5:37 05:30Sleeve note > We drove out at nine with a tape machine, eight microphones and a flask. The quarry holds the day’s heat for about an hour, then gives it back all at once, and you can hear the rock tick as it cools. I didn’t want to compose anything that night. I wanted to stand where the lava had been and let the tape keep the time. Ines Kald 05:45Pressing ## Own the whole night. One pressing of each format, numbered by hand. When they are gone, the download stays. - LP 180 g black vinyl, cut at half speed. Heavyweight sleeve, printed inner, the sleeve note. 500 numbered copies. €34 - Cassette Chrome Type II in a smoke shell, two sides of 24 minutes, a fold-out card. 200 copies. €14 - Download 24-bit / 96 kHz WAV and FLAC, with the sleeve note as a PDF. Opens at 22:00 CET on release night. €9 LPs and cassettes ship from 20 November 2026. Prices include VAT. Shipping is added at checkout. 22:00–06:00Listening sessions ## It plays once, overnight. Each session plays the record at the hour it was made: track one at 22:00, track eight at 05:00, the room in between. Sixty mats, tea, no phones. Free, first come. | Date | City | Room | Doors | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Fri 20 Nov 2026 | Reykjavík | A cold store on the harbour | 21:30 | | Sat 05 Dec 2026 | Bergen | A pumping station above the fjord | 21:30 | | Fri 11 Dec 2026 | Berlin | A disused transformer hall | 21:30 | | Sat 19 Dec 2026 | Glasgow | A railway arch south of the river | 21:30 | | Fri 15 Jan 2027 | Lisbon | A rainwater cistern under the hill | 21:30 | --- The page this is the Markdown version of: https://basalt.laarpi.com/