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  DC544Long Player  £18.00

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Drag City

Ensemble Pearl

Ensemble Pearl

Cosmic heavy amplified rock drops and ripples, auras radiate and expand into cloudforms, through which lightning bolts. Tides rise, the moons wax upon a place somewhere between Link Wray, ‘Hex’-era Earth and early Tangerine Dream. The echoes return, leaving a trail that blows and drifts, creating a separate piece. Ensemble Pearl reach through the clouds and atmospheres and bring it all back down to the ground, to forge further creations for woman and man. This music production is inspired by rock from the classic era (50s through 70s) and acousmatic contemporary composition alike.
Ensemble Pearl is a new collaborative album featuring core members of SUNN O))), Boris, Ghost, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, and White Heaven. Ensemble Pearl are Atsuo, William Herzog, Michio Kurihara and Stephen O’Malley. Their debut album also features the elemental forces of Eyvind Kang and Timba Harris. These players have all moved air and earth in many other projects and can create monolith and river alike on their own, but for Ensemble Pearl they give and take, knowing and understanding each other’s strengths and lack of weakness. Rather than blast sheets of air-filling sound, their contributions float the space with positive and negative dynamics.
Over the course of the CD, or four sides of vinyl, the band ride the jet stream as the world revolves slowly below, static almost, shimmering imperceptibly, mostly water. In and amongst the sprays of foam, there’s a wash of twin-lead psych-proggery, a raft of tribalbeat sun worship, a passing rumble of neck-stretching, some delicate noiseblowing, a bit of float-and-drone and finally, a majestic drift into the deep waters of dub atmosphere.
Ensemble Pearl was recorded by Masato Suzuki, mixed by Randall Dunn and mastered by Bob Weston. The album features artwork from Simon Fowler and Michał Mozolewski, extending and enhancing the music in integral fashion, helping to make Ensemble Pearl a complete experience for the aspirant listener, a full-spectrum sensory bath.

Tracklist

• 1. Ghost Parade
  2. Painting On a Corpse
  3. Wray
  4. Island Epiphany
  5. Giant
  6. Sexy Angle