a r t i s t : Joe Preston and Daniel Menche
t i t l e : Cerberic Doxology
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Anthem (ANTHEM-DD-0801)
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2008
t r a c k s : 01
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 28,1 MB
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*Ripper's note: this is a CD-DVD DualDisc. I've only included
the CD audio here.
Joe Preston (Thrones, High On Fire, Harvey Milk and one time
Melvins bass twanger) has collaborated with Daniel Menche on
'Cerberic Doxology' which is a new fangle "Dual Disc" which
means that it is double sided. A CD on one side and a 5.1 DVD
on the other. As The Buggles said "This Is The Age Of
Plastic". I really like the idea of having an album to play on
CD in the motor and then you can get it home, flip the disc
and watch the film in full 5.1 glory which is what I'm doing
now. The visual element is footage that the two filmed at
Mount Saint Helens, Mount Hood and Stonhenge Memorial in
Goldendale washington in the cold winter of 2007. What you see
is some black and white footage of the Pacific North West
Landscape and its weather systems with a soundtrack of
deliciously dark vocal chants and dare I say it drones. There
are also fabulous slow motion monochrome scenes of dudes just
hanging about rocks. Sounds like watching paint dry I know but
this has really captured my attention. It sounds like hordes
of druids re-claiming the earth armed with didgeridoo's and
some seriously high grade psilocybin. I was kind of expecting
a tribute of sorts to their metal heroes as they're both huge
metal freaks but this has very much defied my expectations. I
can well imagine Julian cope being into this. It's an epic
work that resonates around my cracked skull with slow gloopy
drips of sweet syrupy honey finding there way inside. There is
a particularly beautiful and breathtaking scene where the sun
is peeping through moving clouds framed from below by a dark
woodland. For me this is what I want Sunn O)) to sound like
instead of being so image conscious and having pictures of
themselves wearing their Dungeons and Dragons cloak hooded
dressing gowns on their sleeves.
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