SUNN O))) release details for “Monoliths & Dimensions”

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SUNN O))) is proud to present their 7th studio album, after 10 years of existence, entitled Monoliths & Dimensions. The album showcases the core guitar duo - Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson - incorporating influences from a plethora of guest musicians, bringing the SUNN O))) sound to epic new levels. The band also collaborated with composer Eyvind Kang (notable for his work with John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, etc.) on various acoustic ensembles, in addition to the Helios fueled electric guitars and basses. Key players on the album include Australian guitar genius Oren Ambarchi, enigmatic Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Tormentor, etc.) and slow music godfather Dylan Carlson (Earth), as well as a brass section: Steve Moore (of Earth), Julian Priester (worked with Sun Ra in the 50s, John Coltrane’s African Brass band, and Herbie Hancock’s Sextant band) and new-music horn player Stuart Dempster. There’s also an upright bass trio, French & English horns, harp & flute duo, piano, reed & strings ensembles, and a Viennese woman’s choir led by Persian vocal savant Jessika Kenney.

The album is not “SUNN O))) with strings” or “metal meets orchestra” material. The band took an approach concentrating on more of allusion toward the timbre of feedback and the instruments involved, so the piece is really illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear, stating that the end product is “the most musical piece we’ve done, and also the heaviest, powerful and most abstract set of chords we’ve laid to tape” The album was recorded and mixed by Randall Dunn & Mell Dettmer at various points over the last 2 years, and will be released:

-May 18th Uk and Europe
-May 26th North America
-TBA= Australasia

Monoliths & Dimensions is practice in density, gravity and momentum.

Cover art “out-of-round X” by Richard Serra (1999)

Monoliths & Dimensions track listing:
Aghartha (17:34)
Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] (09:43)
Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) (10:02)
Alice (16:21)

MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS.

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Daymare Recordings presents

Leave them all behind Festival
4/19 (Sun) Liquidroom, Ebisu, Tokyo
open 15:45 start 16:30
ISIS
SUNN O)))
BORIS
ENVY
GROWING

adv.ticket 6,000yen / door 6,500yen (drink fee charged at door)

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SUNN O)))
Shoshin / Grimmrobe Japan 2009

4/21 (Tue) Earthdom, Shin-Okubo, Tokyo
open 18:00 start 19:00
w/ COFFINS

4/22 (Wed) Earthdom, Shin-Okubo, Tokyo
open 18:00 start 19:00
w/ JIM O’ROURKE

4/23 (Thu) Sunsui, Unagidani, Osaka
open 18:00 start 19:00
w/ BLACK GANION

4/24 (Fri) Sunsui, Unagidani, Osaka
open 18:00 start 19:00
w/ RUNZELSTIRN & GURGELSTOCK

adv.ticket ,500 / door ,000 (drink fee charged at door)
2 days ticket deal with special good (21st/22nd &23rd/24th): adv.ticket ,000 / door ,000 (drink fee charged at door)

all adv.tickets available from 2/14(Sat)
information: venue

With honor, SUNN O))) is announcing 4 live performances in Japan, to recognize the 10th anniversary of SUNN O)))’s creation, and to coincide with the recording of the first album: The GrimmRobe Demos. SUNN O)) will be playing material from GrimmRobes exclusively. It will be a return to their primal origins, and approach respecting a concept of shoshin , the beginner’s mind, the yet undyed pure wool, the clarity in initiation upon the untraveled. The attitude of embodying the basics precisely, point by point, line by line, with an immovable faith in the teaching, experience and of beyond the possibility. Of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when approaching, even with much experience, just as a beginner would upon the initial impetus and thirst to seek the path. And so, with this mindset, they will be approaching these live concerts. Pure, raw, uninhibited invocations featuring O)))s core members: Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson ONLY. 2 Les Paul guitars, 4 Sunn fullstacks, 4 Ampeg bass stacks. No guests, no vocals, no keyboards. We hope you will join us!.

*SUNN O))) will also be playing for leave them all behind festival at Ebisu Liquidroom on Sunday April 19th. The line up is Stephen O’Malley, Greg Anderson and Atsuo from Boris, this is not Shoshin show but exclusive special arrangement.

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Pelican sign to Southern Lord

It is with immense reverence that Southern Lord Recordings announces the signing of Chicago heavy-rock instrumental icons Pelican. Their genre-defying sound and eagerness to explore new musical directions will fit right at home alongside similar bands on the label like Earth, Boris and sunn 0))). Pelican is currently at Red Room studios in Seattle, WA recording an EP that will be their first release on Southern Lord. The new material promises to be heavier, darker and very “riff-oriented” comments guitarist Trevor De Brauw. A very special guest guitarist who has been heavily influential to the band will be making a guest appearance more details to be revealed shortly!

In March Pelican will be touring alongside new label mates Wolves In The Throne Room, including a triumphant return to the South By South West music fest in Austin, TX at the Southern Lord showcase. Upon returning home Pelican will focus their sights on their 4th full-length album.

Pelican March/April 2009 tour:
*w/Tombs, Dredg
**w/Tombs, Wolves In The Throne Room

3/15/2009 The Picador - Iowa City IA *
3/16/2009 Riot Room - Kansas City, KS *
3/17/2009 The Marquee - Tulsa, OK *
3/18/2009 Scout Bar - San Antonio, TX * plus Tricky
3/19/2009 Vino’s - Little Rock, AR **
3/20/2009 Elmo’s - Austin, TX @ SXSW Southern Lord Showcase w/Eagle Twin, Black Cobra, Wolves In The Throne Room, Wino, etc.
3/22/2009 Red 7 - Austin, TX **
3/25/2009 The Sets - Tempe, AZ **
3/26/2009 The Casbah - San Diego, CA **
3/27/2009 The Troubadour - West Hollywood, CA **
3/28/2009 Slim’s - San Francisco, CA **
3/29/2009 Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR **
3/30/2009 Nightlight - Bellingham, WA **
3/31/2009 Neumo’s - Seattle , WA ** (also w/ Black Breath!)
4/02/2009 Club Vegas - Salt Lake City, UT **
4/03/2009 The Marquis Theatre - Denver , CO **
4/05/2009 Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL **

Dark Lord Day
Sat Apr-25 Munster, IN 3 Floyds Brewing Co

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SUNN O))) Grimmrobes/Shoshin 22nd February 2009 @ Corsica Studios

With honor, SUNN O))) is announcing one exclusive live performances in the United Kingdom, the first since their phenominal Altar concert at The Kentishtown Forum December 2007, to recognize the 10th anniversary of SUNN O)))’s creation. To coincide with the recording of the first album, The GrimmRobe Demos, SUNN O)) will be playing material from it exclusively. It will be a return to their primal origins, and approach respecting a zen concept of shoshin, the beginner’s mind, the yet undyed pure wool, the clarity in initiation upon the untraveled. The attitude of embodying the basics precisely, point by point, line by line, with an immovable faith in the teaching, experience and of beyond the possibility. Of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when approaching, even with much experience, just as a beginner would upon the initial impetus and thirst to seek the path. And so, with this mindset, they will be approaching these live concerts. Pure, raw, uninhibited invocations featuring O)))s core members: Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson ONLY. No guests, no vocals, no keyboards. We hope you will join us!

Corsica Studios
Unit 5 Farrell Court
Elephant Road
London
SE17 1LB

www.corsicastudios.com
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