SUNN O))) - LA REH 012
We are pleased to offer a second installment in SUNN O)))'s demo series of limited LPs.
LA REH 012
LP
(feedback)
LORD (((O))) SOMA
L (moog) R
(verb)
Rec: Los Angeles 012 Mix: Paris 013
MASTERED BY BRAD BOATRIGHT
LAST ONE / VALENTINE'S DAY (18:02)
INVISIBLE / SLEEPER (20:26)
SOMA020/LORD180 A SPLIT LABEL RELEASE ©2013 BETWEEN IDEOLOGIC ORGAN & SOUTHERN LORD
MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS
DIGITAL "REH DEMO 012" is available now for preorder here: http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/la-reh-2012
PHYSICAL "REH DEMO 012" LP will go on preorder 26 December 2013 on http://sunn.southernlord.com
The preorders will be released sometime in January 2014.
This is available only via mailorder & live concerts, SLR Europe
should also be offering copies via their forthcoming mailorder service.
There will be a tshirt in coordination with this: "Ever breathed a
frequency?" As per the first in the series, this LP is also limited to
1500 machine numbered copies and a split label release by Ideologic
Organ & Southern Lord.
Thank you for your interest.
(03:ideologic.org)
Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts (b. 12.12.43)
SUNN O))) & ULVER: The Story of Their Collaboration Revealed
With words from the creators themselves, the story of how the impending collaborative Terrestrials LP from SUNN O))) and ULVER
was conceptualized and created has been dispatched to the public, in
addition to the first auditory indication of the material the album
presents.
Oslo, Norway, August 10th, 2008. Following their 200th gig, playing before 2000 people at the Øya festival, SUNN O))) teamed up with Norwegian legends ULVER at their Oslo studio, Crystal Canyon. They
recorded three “live in improvisation” pieces, starting that evening
and ending at dawn, as Northern sunlight seeped in through the windows.
“We were sitting in the console room, early in the morning, listening
to the takes. Someone said, ‘ah, sunrise over Crystal Canyon,’ as if
the night had been a dark one. We all laughed and Greg proposed it as a
title. In that setting it sounded perfect. The boys had mentioned
wanting the music to orient towards the light, like some lost pilgrim
stretching before the sun. We kept that mental picture for the
processing.” – Kristoffer Rygg
That take became the album’s opening piece, “Let There Be Light,”
which builds up from silence and darkness and proceeds – ceremoniously,
coruscating – O’Malley and O’Sullivan creating the backdrop for Rygg’s
Basso Profondo chants. The music unfolds over eight minutes before
reaching a crescendo of bass and brass, introducing both Anderson and ULVER as we know them. The Sunn has risen.
“Western Horn” accelerates on a single and austere note of sustained
bass and low end, evolving gradually into a haunted soundscape. Crying
violins, clusters of Fender Rhodes, guitar pickups, and metal plate
drones are gradually layered beneath Anderson’s augmented bass feedback.
“Eternal Return” introduces Rygg singing a lyric evoking ancient
Greece, Egypt and the Biblical lands. The song is palindromic, echoing
the lyric, beginning and ending with the same bass line and musical
pattern, though the guitars are ultimately reversed as the song implodes
upon itself.
After the session, ULVER spent a fortnight enhancing
the dynamics of the original recordings, adding their own distinctive
sheen to the mix, while never losing sight of the SUNN O))) gestaltqualität and remaining careful not to become caught up in studio stratagems.
O’Malley would join ULVER once in a blue moon to
develop and sculpt the production more closely with Rygg — overseeing
additional recordings of trumpet, viola and violin and attempting to
illuminate, and preserve, the unique atmosphere of the collaboration.
Over the course of several of these short visits, now some years since
the original recording session took place, things slowly and steadily
grew to become Terrestrials.
“I remember the vibe in the room back then was more rāga than it was
rock. And despite the fact that the walls were literally shaking from
volume, it was actually quite a blissed out, psychedelic session. I
wanted to preserve that vibe in the final mix.” – Stephen O’Malley
And while Pandit Shankar (may he rest in peace) was not physically
present, his spirit loomed large, perhaps together with a few nameless
Persian ghosts attracted by the boys’ mutual appreciation for composers
like Conrad, Riley, Glass, Alice Coltrane and Shivkumar Sharma.
“You know that opening sequence of Koyaanisqatsi, where the
desolate desert landscapes, waves and cloud formations roll over the
screen accompanied by deep male chanting and organ ostinatos. That’s where we were.” – Daniel O’Sullivan
So: serene, vociferous, and visually charged stuff. Supreme sounds of
synergy from two seminal forces – and friends. Remember to play loud.
In advance of Terrestrials’ street date, now confirmed as February 4th, 2014 in North America, an excerpt of Terrestrials’ immense third composition, “Eternal Return,” is now playing AT THIS LOCATION.
Terrestrials Track Listing:
1. Let There Be Light
2. Western Horn
3. Eternal Return
Additional information and samples from the Terrestrials experiment will be available in the coming weeks prior to the album’s release.
(o3:EsC)
