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it seems that His Name Is Alive fans have received an early Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa present from Warn Defever as he released a free downloadable album this week on His Name Is Alive's official website:

Cloud Pop (The Cloud Box Sampler)
In November 2004, a limited edition of 50 wood "cloud boxes" which gathered ten CDs of new music from His Name Is Alive was released via mail order from Time Stereo. These quickly sold out. An 11-track sampler of the boxset, titled Cloud Pop, was subsequently planned and it appears below as a limited time free download courtesy of His Name Is Alive. These downloads are of interest to owners of the Cloud Box as well as those who missed out because these are freshly remixed versions, never before released in any form. Enjoy!
1 - USA vs. Gamelan
2 - Brown Rice
3 - The Pine Cone
4 - The Pine Cone II
5 - Everglades National Park
6 - Mystery Spot
7 - Brown Rice II
8 - Wake Up Jin (Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most)
9 - Free Concert
10 - Dreem Up
11 - Detrola


in my opinion, to those unfamiliar with His Name is Alive, this hour of instrumental freeform and found sound from the past ten years or so will seem like little more than gentle therapy music, and in fact, that's what alot of it is. the Pine Cone tracks in particular are music that Warn makes as a personal form of therapy, producing music with a pinecone wired up to a guitar amp. to fans of His Name is Alive's more recognizable albums from 4AD, this will still seem an awkward set of songs as there are no operatic vocals echoing across a stage of distant plinks and hums (until the penultimate track, "Dreem Up," which is more or less exactly that). personally, i like it a great deal and am happy it was released as such, as i was one of the many who were an hour or two too late to receive one of the 50 copies of the Cloud Box.

if you're curious about the new material HNiA have up their sleeves (which i assure you is much poppier and song-oriented than this collection here), you can stream the Something-Nothing EP on His Name Is Alive's MySpace page, and the new album Detrola comes out on January 24th.