"Collision Stories are a quartet of San Francisco sound artists concocting an unorthodox mélange of sounds from an appropriately unorthodox set of instruments: Jorge Bachmann, Bryan Day, Michael Gendreau and Mason Jones.

Recorded January 28, 2020 in San Francisco, this was the last session the Collision Stories quartet played before, as the title says, the darkness of the pandemic and lockdown brought collaborations to a halt.

"As a fan of both abstract sound constructions and wigged out psychedelic excursions, I enjoyed the morphing, mixing, and atom smashing of these realms that characterizes Avant L'Obscurité. Side A starts right off with a cacophony of high intensity, yet strangely carnivalesque delirium. It's a lysergic cauldron of motor speedway, street corner organ grinder, gurgling lip smacks, windy drones, high tension wire unravelling, and other noisy and diddly effects. It's a gripping roller coaster ride, though the music ebbs and flows, with relatively quieter passages that are propelled by mind-bending percussion patterns, searing, minimal synths drones, playfully zany keyboard melodies, alien insect swarms, and dashes of spectral Kosmiche.

Side B expands on these themes, starting off with thudding percussion that penetrated my chest cavity, and a killer blend of intensely noisy chaos, whimsical effects, and meditative Kosmiche. But the mood again fluctuates between sonic assault and cosmically exploratory segments" (Electronic Cottage).

Ltd x 300 copies.