CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Elm
Album....: Nemcatacoa
Label....: Digitalis Recordings
Size.....: 61,5 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 45:54 min
Genre....: Folk
Release..: Jan-15-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 05:23 Nemcatacoa
02 03:17 In The Shadow Of Red Rock
03 05:59 Silver Dust In Moonlight
04 05:00 Arc Of Wisdom
05 04:19 Sacrament At Dusk
06 05:17 Breath Of Midnight Still
07 01:52 Covered In Blankets And Moss
08 10:15 Three Rings Drawn In Sand
09 04:32 Deep Mirage
Release Notes:
For my money, Barn Owl is the best new band to emerge in the last five
years. Their trajectory has been meteoric, progressing musically and
conceptually in leaps and bounds. I've been thrilled to be there from
the beginning, watching and listening in awe as the duo of Jon Porras
and Evan Caminiti have carved out an impressive niche of their own.
Heavy doses of guitar savagery and tribal essence have them firmly
planted at the top of the mountain. So it makes sense to deconstruct
the duo and present each as a solo entity, soaring on their own.
Elm is the name of Porras' solo creations. His music retains the
megasonics of Barn Owl, but finds his tutelage deep in the heart of
the desert. "Nemcatacoa" is a lonesome, epic journey. Named after one
of the deities of his Colombian heritage, his latest full-length (and
first large-scale solo release) feels huge and endless. Walls of
guitars shatter beneath the weight of the booming percussion blasts
that find their way from the caves into the light. An acoustic guitar
is mournfully plucked, the beginning of a procession of the dead.
"Nemcatacoa" is an album begging for somebody, anybody to find and
embrace.
Porras is a master artist. The instrumentation at work here is even
more impressive when you consider it's played by a lone soul. Guitars,
Rhodes, Harmonium, Trumpet and more echo through the caverns of the
ancient Earth. Even though this album is dark and at times bleak, it
never overpowers. Traversing similar aural planes as Sunn O))) and
Earth, Porras is staking a claim all his own. As his voice wails over
blankets of guitars, he never loses sight of the golden life ahead.
Incredible.