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SUNN O))) ANNOUNCE ADDITIONAL TOUR DATES FOR 2020, NEW ALBUM PYROCLASTS, OUT NOW
STREAM PYROCLASTS THE NEW ALBUM FROM SUNN O)))
Sunn O))) have announced additional European tour dates for 2020. Meanwhile the current European tour continues including shows in the UK with Anna Von Hausswolff in support – see full listings below. The new album Pyroclasts is officially out today and available on the Sunn store, bandcamp, Southern Lord main and European stores.
LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES) OCTOBER 2019
October 25 UK, Glasgow QMU with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 26 UK, Birmingham The Crossing with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 27 UK, Manchester Albert Hall with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 28 UK, London Roundhouse with Anna Von Hausswolff
INCOMING IN 2020…New dates:
January 24 IT, Rome – Orion
January 25 IT, Bologna – TPO
January 26 IT, Trezzo d’Adda – Live Club
January 29 BE, Kortrijk – De Kreun
January 30 LUX, Esch-Sur-Alzette – Kulturfabrik
La Gaîté Lyrique presents: SUNN O))) – LET THERE BE DRONE ONE RESIDENCE, TWO CONCEPTS, THREE CONCERTS
January 31 FR Paris – La Gaité Lyrique
February 1 FR Paris – La Gaité Lyrique
February 2 FR Paris – La Gaité Lyrique
* *Duo / Shoshin performance
SUNN O))) Pyroclasts
TRACK LIST:
SIDE A)
Frost (C)
Kingdoms (G)
SIDE B)
Ampliphædies (E)
Ascension (A)
The Pyroclasts album is the result of a daily practice which was regularly performed each morning, or evening during the two week Life Metal sessions at Electrical Audio during July 2018, when all of the days musical participants would gather and work through a 12 minute improvised modal drone at the start and or end of the day’s work. The piece performed was timed with a stopwatch and tracked to two inch tape, it was an exercise and a chance to dig into a deep opening or closing of the days session in a deep musical way with all of the participants. To connect/reconnect, liberate the creative mind a bit and greet each other and the space through the practice of sound immersion. The players across the four pieces of Pyroclasts are Tim Midyett, T.O.S., Hildur Guðnadóttir, and as always Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson.
The music on Pyroclasts is inextricably woven to Life Metal. It exists on the very same tape reels, was explicitly recorded by Steve Albini. The brightness and vividity of that glorious session glares through these four tracks, the precision and radiance, prismatic lustrousness of the saturation, the elemental sculptural shapes, the abstract renderings. It is a sister, or perhaps a shadow album. Or perhaps the now apparent miasma or aether. But it also exists in a form of a pause, a time space which exist in between and around the compositional structures of Sunn O)))’s titanic works.
For the listener or recipient/participant there are deep rewards within the patience of pulling down the walls and letting the music feel, and feel the music. To be immersed will reveal great detail and colour, clarify image, encourage a depth of focus and stillness which may lead to a quite profound experience. Sitting inside the space of time. A deep form of elementalism, even atomism, and connection with presence moment, time and reality.
Sunn O))) would invite their audience to consider these points of perception when experiencing and listening to Pyroclasts. Sunn O))) would also invite and encourage the audience to use Pyroclasts as a lens to review and reexperience the complexity of the Life Metal album, and even to interrupt its sequence with Pyroclasts. This elaboration can bring the astute listener both abyssal, hallowed rewards.
Pyroclasts was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio on two inch tape July 2018, and mastered by Matt Colton through all analogue AAA process at Metropolis July 2019. Four of Samantha Keely Smith’s incredible consciousness memory landscape paintings grace the album sleeve. Stephen & Greg would like to dedicate this album to the memories of Ron Guardipee, Kerstin Daley & Scott Walker. Sunn O))) are participating in the Ten Bands One Cause charity, whereby ten Bands re-issue their albums on limited edition pink vinyl, for Gilda’s Club NYC, an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers.
More details here: https://www.10bands1cause.com/
SUNN O)))’s website/webstore sunn.southernlord.com
SUNN O)))’s album oeuvres online sunn.bandcamp.com
SUNN O)))’s live recordings online sunn-live.bandcamp.com
Tour produced by Ideologic Organ Music SUNN O)))’s booking in EU by Odyssey / Vincent Royers
SUNN O)))’s recordings are released by Southern Lord Recordings