Artist.......: Absent Sound
Album........: Gathering of the Clan Mothers
Label........: 2-Ply Collective
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: Vinyl
rip.date.....: Sep-23-2008
str.date.....: 000-00-0000
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.theabsentsound.com/
track title time
01. Jack-In-The-Box-Lullabye 12:16
02. Medecine 07:33
03. Raising The Heavy Veil 07:17
04. Tribal Law 09:31
05. If I Fall, I Will Fly 07:16
Runtime 43:53 min
Size 57,7 MB
Release Notes:
Absent Sound are powerfully eclectic and engaging
musicians, spanning from record skip world dub to
heavy electronic post rock with eerie yet festive
four part harmonies. These puppet masters wield a
musical arsenal creating huge dramatic worlds of
sound with organic chants, colossal guitars,
hypnotic off-time record scratches, beats, loops,
and Lesley speaker organ drones: ears open and eyes
closed is all the flight attendant requests.
----Absent Sound began as a solo project of Robert
G. Menard around 1995 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
with friends helping him produce the home
recordings in a live setting. In 2002, David Fort
joined as a permanent member to take the band into
a much more serious mode. Menard (guitars,
samples/loops, electronics, vocals and keys) and
Fort (guitars, bass, vocals and keys) secluded
themselves in the wilds of north-central Manitoba.
Over the next year the pair hid from all
distractions, meditating solely on the rise and
fall of the earth's respirating chest. What emerged
a year later was a treasure chest full of ideas and
music that are still being explored six years
later. Their innate community building skills have
allowed them to become the hub of one of the more
vibrant progressive art and music scenes in Canada.
----The Absent Sound have now evolved into a full
production joining forces with Kelly Castle (Little
Buddies, former National Monument, Room 237) on
drums, percussion and vocals.
----They have also recorded, and performed live
with Josh Butcher on organs, vocals, bugle, film
projections, and performance painting, Doreen
Girard on cello and vocals and Natalia Zielinski on
violin.
----The Absent Sound's live show puts them in the
realm of an art installation and dream-scape:
employing at times thematics, film/ video
projections, performance painting, multiple tv
sets, contemporary dancers, and stilt-walking
pantomime. Their music has also perfectly
complimented some of Winnipeg's creatively fertile
film making community.
----The group has toured extensively throughout
North America and are best experienced live,
bringing their unique style of sensory art and
music to life. They have shared the stage with DAMO
SUZUKI, DO MAKE SAY THINK, FEIST, FLY PAN AM, MONO,
GROWING, CLAN ZU, FABUKI DAIKO and MAHOGANY FROG.
Since returning to Winnipeg from their 3 month
musical endeavors in New York City and abroad, the
band continues to enchant and inspire audiences.
----The Absent Sound have recorded and released
four albums to date and recorded a brand new EP
worth of music with Darryl Neudorf (Neko Case, New
Pornographers, The Sadies...) in Orangeville,
Ontario in the spring of 08. They are searching for
the right US, Japanese and European record labels
to release these tracks on vinyl and digital forms
for later this year.
"Gathering Of The Clan Mothers" (2007/08), their
second studio album inspired by the tribal law
teachings of their friend and teacher Lester House.
The music was recorded by their dear friend and
sound guru Jordan 'Sound' Brown at Winnipeg's Video
Pool. They went to Harris Newman (most
Constellation Records releases and much more) in
Montreal for the mastering of the album and
Winnipeg's 2-Ply Collective have released it here
in Canada.
and their first studio album, "It's All True"
(2005/06), No List Records. The rich and full sound
of 'It's All True' was captured beautifully by
recording engineer Craig Boychuk (Propaghandi, Greg
MacPherson, KENMODE, Hide Your Daughters) and
mastered by Harris Newman.
"Music To Live And Die To" (2004),2-Ply & Teargas
Recording Tree, home recordings
"Another Chapter" (2003),2-Ply, home recordings The
Absent Sound are receiving nothing but positive
feedback and reviews from all over the world for
their attempts at changing the music market.
----Absent Sound have showcased at such diverse
festivals as 10KLF, Dogstock, Ness Creek, Graffiti
Gallery Mural Fest, Winnipeg Jazz, JunoFest, and
Send & Receive. They have also created two of their
own festivals, the ElementSircus-
www.myspace.com/elementsircus, a sonic multi-media
and costumed event, and The 20 Guitar Circular Wall
Of Angelic Sound-
www.myspace.com/20guitarcircularwallofangelicsound.
And the summer of 08 the band was showcased at
Calgary, Alberta's Sled Island Festival and The
Winnipeg Folk Festival.
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