http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/pyroclasts

Pyroclasts to album będący efektem regularnych ćwiczeń zespołu, rano i wieczorem, podczas sesji nagraniowyych do płyty Life Metal. Uczestniczący w nagraniach muzycy Midyett, T.O.S., Hildur Guðnadóttir, Stephen O’Malley i Greg Anderson codziennie na początku albo po zakończeniu pracy przez dwanaście minut wspólnie improwizowali.

Zarejestrowany w tym samym studiu co Life Metal materiał należy traktować jako nierozerwalną część tej płyty, będący jej dopełnieniem, siostrzanym odbiciem, cieniem.


LP IN STOUGHTON JACKET, PRINTED INNERS, OBI STRIP WITH FOUR OF SAMANTHA KEELY SMITH'S INCREDIBLE CONSCIOUSNESS MEMORY LANDSCAPES GRACING THE ALBUM SLEEVE. 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 Gudnadóttir, 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 al.......
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