Artist ....... 3rd Ear Experience
Album ........ Peacock Black
Genre ........ Psychedelic Rock
Source ....... WEB
Label ........ Ruralfaune
Catalog Nr. .. RURALFAUNE 110
Release Date . Apr-19-2015
Tracks ....... 04
Length ....... 76:04
Quality ...... 48,0
Mode ......... Joint Stereo
Encoder ...... LAME 3.98.4 -V0
Size ......... 137,54 MB
Link ......... http://ruralfaune.blogspot.se/
Rls Notes
Simply put, this album weaves its own magic spell. Each piece is a mystical,
impressionistic soundscape, a kaleidoscope of atmospheres that drift and meander
like incense smoke caught in candlelight. From the get go, it is perfectly clear
that these are excellent musicians at the top of their game, rebellious and
unafraid. Wasting no time, the music suddenly bursts into a dense dazzling jam,
drawing the listener into a pulsating, rhythmic foundation with no edges to hold
on to. Motifs are hurled from one instrument to the next, cleaving idea to idea,
from moment to moment, exploding with life and outrageous creativity. It is free
music, unfettered and uncontainable. Then we are gently moved off into a more
mysterious territory - part ambient, part rock, at times transitory, at times
elegantly psychedelic with rhythms that are barely present. Integral to the
seemingly loose jams is the musical interplay between the various members,
exchanging riffs, whispering melodies ear to ear, weaving themes peaceful and
restless, deconstructing tonalities in favor of foreboding ambiances. Building
and peaking and returning to silence, these long tracks flow with a consistent
spiritual quality that guides the musicians to carve unique musical forms, with
finesse an ethereal beauty, from the well mined quarry of space rock.
3rd Ear Experience was formed by AmritaKripa and Robbi Robb as a means of
documenting and sharing their experimental psychedelic space jams. Held at
various locations in the Mojave Desert, the sessions might feature different
players but the core music always arises out of spontaneous musical interaction
with friends and musicians of like mind.
Peacock Black sessions were set up at the Furst Wurld Art and Performance Gallery.
Simple recording equipment was brought in and the band, comprising of Dug Pinnick,
Robbi Robb, Amritakripa, Eric Ryan, Alan Swanson and Eric Mouness, set up in a
full circle around the gallery. Artists were invited to come and create art while
the band jammed. Bobby Furst, the gallery owner, projected avante garde films onto
a 30 foot screen. These four pieces are the first fruits of the sessions that
continued for three days and nights. Later the tracks were brought in to Star Lane
studios in Joshua Tree to do some editing and saxophone and didgeridoo overdubs
with Aaron Merc and Kurosh Showghi.
Joshua Tree is a little village in the Mojave Desert with a small community
comprised of known and unknown musicians, artist, dancers, farmers, film makers
and astronomers. It is in this community that Robbi and Kripa discovered musical
freedom. "It never felt right to play pre-arranged music in the desert under the
star studded night sky" says Kripa "and so we abandoned formal arrangements and
allowed the music to flow though us in a cosmic sonic dialogue between fellow
musicians and stargazers". "The chief composer" says Robb, "is the art of listening
with the third ear - in consort with a refined patience to express and interpret
the sonic signals that arise from within as a result of being in the vastness of
the desert beneath the voluptuous night sky"
Black Peacock was produced, recorded and mixed by Eric Ryan of ESR studios and
mastered by Mark Fuller of Mark Fuller Mastering.
Available at: http://ruralfaune.bandcamp.com/
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# track length
01 The Surface Of Last Scattering 14:14
02 Peacock Black 22:44
03 Pocket Full Of Stars 13:06
04 High Lands 26:00