Droste

Description

The Weeks Island project began in 2018 when Jonny Campos recorded a series of deep, amoebic, ambient pedal steel passages over the course of two afternoons, while on a break from touring with the Grammy Award-winning Cajun band Lost Bayou Ramblers. Droste's tracks are named after waterways that no longer exist, whose names have been erased from maps thanks to the disintegration of the southern Louisiana coastline. This sense of impermanence hangs over the record - tracks don't begin and end, but rather drift in and out of your consciousness. It can be a passive, serene listen or a deep dive that lingers long after the album finishes. Droste originally appeared on Nouveau Electric Records in 2020, on cassette. DFA picked it up and began a years-long process to cut the record to vinyl, a task made difficult by the sharp pedal steel and waves of harmonic distortion that color the music.