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"A silent nocturnal flight. An awareness gained while gliding through forests while sleep engulfs all else. The knowledge that dawn is approaching and being one of the first to see its pink and golden rays. Weird Owl is a Brooklyn band that resides in the heaviness inherent in the convergence of imagination, poetry and sound. First formed in 2004 and through its odd mutations involving changes in approach and personnel, Weird Owl has arrived at the present day in its most solid and powerful formation yet. Taking its cues as much from the secrets of esoteric literature as from legendary acts such as the 13th Floor Elevators, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Love and Crazy Horse, Weird Owl has managed to create a sonic mindscape that half resembles the last prayers of an ancient priest-king and half resembles the first translations of a future language fallen down from silvery space. In its first release for Tee Pee Records, entitled Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed, Weird Owl has gathered together a tour de force of its peculiar craft -- hypnotic slithering guitar lines, the strange breathiness of cosmic synths, a dash of the punishing heaviness of the riff -- all contained within phantasmagoric song structures and expressed with the language of a true visionary experience. With lyrics that run the thematic gamut from esoteric meditations on the Tarot and astrology ('Mind Mountain') to past-life relapses involving the Battle of Little Bighorn ('13 Arrows, 13 Stars') to the Atlantean seascape of the subconscious mind ('In The Secrecy Of Oceans'), not to mention a myriad of other psychic and magical phenomena, Ever The Silver Cord Be Loosed could also double as a manual on what to do when you experience the loss of your body. There are many ways to be born, but Weird Owl would like to invite you to witness one of the weirdest: a birth experienced while already living."
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TPE 069CD
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"Spanning three years of studio work, Cloudland Canyon was born when Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan. Tapes were exchanged, and a handful of improv performances across the Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that year. Through a week's worth of 12 hour days in the recording studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems Der Natur: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container, then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they're given. Within, strictures of German new age and electronic music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with analog burble and echoes of woodwinds. Shambling, modal organ ruminations detour browned-out meditation hang sesh. Blue-eyed drunken soul collapses upon swarms of meticulously composed synthesizers into a yellowed, rejoicing howl. Bulkheads of battleship-grey sound are dry-docked and meet the sun for the first time, then the solitude of night. Smoky Mountain fingerpicking rests for seemingly connected moments against an ever-changing backdrop of technology. Contributions by The Double's Jacob Morris, Turing Machine/The Juan MacLean drummer Jerry Fuchs, and Uhlhorn's wife, Kelly Winkler, fortified the sessions with further points of view." For fans of: Boards of Canada, Animal Collective, The Dead C., Ash Ra Tempel, This Heat, Gong.
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