infinite loop cassette by Weeks Island

infinite loop cassette by Weeks Island

The wonder and drone never ends with this 2nd Limited Edition of 6 minute looping cassette tapes of Weeks Island. Loop consists of "Raccoon Island" and "Fleur Pond" tracks, both named after place-names which no longer exist on the Louisiana map, as they fell in to the Gulf of Mexico because of coastal erosion and land-loss.

NOTE: The price of the 2nd edition had to go up as the tapes had to be sourced internationally. We're looking for a domestic provider, as the original company stopped offering them, and the first round of this release was the last of their stock.

Watching the tape play is a wonder in itself, as the looping cassette has no cogs, and seems to play itself with no help from the cassette player.

Live in the endless vibe of Weeks Island.

Weeks Island takes its name from one of the salt domes of South Louisiana that poke up out of the surrounding flat brackish marsh, whose peak offers the widest perspective of the environment possible; that’s what this music does for the listener.

The EP’s title, Droste, refers to the effect of an image that appears recursively within itself. It’s a nod to the fact that two mirrors facing each other create an image that multiplies infinitely. The music explores this concept of infinite reflection and the possibility of creating a separate reality.

The songs of this lush soundscape are titled after places in Louisiana which no longer exist and whose names have been erased from maps. They are gone and scarcely remembered due to ongoing coastal land loss and rising sea levels. “Point Fortuna,” “Raccoon Island,” “Fleur Pond,” “Bayou La Chute,” and “Cyprien Bay” were geological features that are all now sunken into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonny Campos began Weeks Island during the Lost Bayou Ramblers’ 6 months hiatus of 2018. With no work with the Ramblers on the horizon, the urge to create new music came on fast and strong. One afternoon, Jonny got together with engineer (and Ramblers’ drummer) Kirkland Middleton at the latter’s studio apartment in New Orleans’s Pigeon Town neighborhood and produced this ambient minor masterpiece.

As guitarist for Lost Bayou Ramblers, Jonny’s ambient guitar and steel sounds play a prominent role on the soundtracks for award winning documentary Rodents of Unusual Size, and the feature film Lost Bayou, as well as the Grammy award winning Kalenda album.