Artist : Petrels
Album : Flailing Tomb
Year : 2015
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 261kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 44m
Size : 87.40mb
Label : Denovali Records
Catalognr : DEN232
Tracklist:
01. We Are Falling Into The Heart Of The Sun 8:58
02. Thangen After Dothe 4:40
03. Orpheus 8:23
04. L. Caution Part One 5:14
05. L. Caution Part Two 7:35
06. L. Caution Part Three 9:15
Releasenotes:
Petrels returns in May with thunderous new album, Flailing Tomb, to be released
via Denovali Records. Taking the exhilaratingly huge sonic expanse that Petrels
has become known for and pushing it further still, Flailing Tomb draws on a
breathtaking sonic palette of influences and instrumentation to craft perhaps
the strongest Petrels release to date.
Flailing Tomb's underlying theme is a many-layered obsession with û and joyous
celebration of û the defiance in persisting with lost causes. Building on the
mythological foundations of previous albums û Haeligewielle, Onkalo and Mima û
Flailing Tomb takes an underlying current that ran beneath each of these and
pushes it to the fore. Flailing Tomb draws inspiration from sources as
wide-ranging as Ursula K. Le Guin's speculative fiction, Indian-Celtic
connections, self-mummification, Jude The Apostle (patron saint of lost causes),
and Jean-Luc Godard's seminal sci-fi masterpiece, Alphaville (much of the
second-half of the album is adapted from music originally written as an
alternate score to the film), weaving all this and more into six
intricately-layered parts - at once forthright and ambiguous.
With a much broader range of instrumentation and contributors than previous
Petrels albums û from the melodic cacophony of album opener We Are Falling Into
the Heart Of The Sun, to the euphoric choral backdrop of Orpheus with a lead
vocal from NEVER SOL and the epic motorik finale of L. Caution û Flailing Tomb
is both an expansion on and refinement of the Petrels sound and an album that
confirms the arrival of a singular artist.
Petrels is the solo project of London-based musician and illustrator, Oliver
Barrett. Since releasing his debut Haeligewielle in 2011, Petrels has toured
across Europe and shared a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young
(Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Demdike Stare, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius
(Cluster). Having also collaborated with and provided remixes for artists as
varied as Duane Pitre, Brassica, Talvihorros and Max Cooper, Petrels' output is
proving to be thrillingly eclectic and unpredictable.
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