Southern Lord Recordings

SUNN O))) will release Pyroclasts through Southern Lord on October 25th. The album’s cover art, track listing, and a trailer have been issued.

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 twelve-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 day’s 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, Tos Nieuwenhuizen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and as always, SUNN O)) founders Stephen O’Malley and 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 vividness 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 color, 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 our audience to consider these points of perception when experiencing and listening to Pyroclasts. SUNN O))) would also invite and encourage their audience to use Pyroclastsasa lens to review and re-experience 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 landscapes grace the album sleeve artwork.

Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson would like to dedicate this album to the memories of Ron Guardipee, Kerstin Daley, and Scott Walker.

View the trailer for SUNN O)))’s Pyroclasts at THIS LOCATION.

Pyroclasts Track Listing:
SIDE A:
Frost (C)
Kingdoms (G)
SIDE B:
Ampliphædies (E)
Ascension (A)

SUNN O))) Tour Dates:
September 2019 – Western U.S
9/01/2019 Granada – Dallas, TX w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/02/2019 Emo’s – Austin, TX w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/04/2019 The Gothic – Denver, CO w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/06/2019 Metro Music Hall – Salt Lake City, UTw/ Papa M, Big|Brave, Eagle Twin [tickets]
9/07/2019 Arcosanti – Phoenix AZ w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/08/2019 Mayan – Los Angeles, CA w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/09/2019 The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA w/ Papa M, Big|Brave [tickets]
9/11/2019 The Showbox – Seattle, WA w/ Papa M [tickets]
9/12/2019 Revolution Hall – Portland, OR w/ Papa M [tickets]
9/15/2019 Hollywood Forever – Los Angeles, CA [Shoshin (初心) Duo] [tickets]
Let There Be Drone (Multiple Gains Stages) October 2019
10/07/2019 Backstage – Munich, DE w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/08/2019 HfG / ZKM – Karlsruhe, DE w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/09/2019 Kaserne Basel – Basel, CH w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/10/2019 Felsenkeller – Leipzig, DE w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/11/2019 Unsound Festival – Krakow, PL
10/13/2019 Kablys – Vilnius, LT w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/14/2019 Vene Teater – Tallinn, EE w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/15/2019 Kulttuuritalo – Helsinki, FI w/ Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem [tickets]
10/17/2019 Kraken Sthlm – Stockholm, SE w/ Carl Michael Von Hausswolff [tickets]
10/18/2018 Kulturkirchen Jakob – Oslo, NO w/ Runhild Gammelsæter & Lass Marhaug Duo [tickets]
10/19/2019 BLA – Oslo, NO [Shoshin (初心) Duo] w/ Runhild Gammelsæter & Lass Marhaug Duo DJ set [tickets]
10/21/2019 Koncerthuset – Copenhagen, DK w/ Puce Mary [tickets]
10/22/2019 Doornroosje – Nijmegen, NL [tickets]
10/24/2019 SWX – Bristol, UK w/ Anna Von Hausswolff [tickets]
10/25/2019 QMU – Glasgow, UK w/ Anna Von Hausswolff [tickets]
10/26/2019 The Crossing – Birmingham, UK w/ Anna Von Hausswolff [tickets]
10/27/2019 Albert Hall – Manchester, UK w/ Anna Von Hausswolff [tickets]
10/28/2019 Roundhouse – London, UK w/ Anna Von Hausswolff [tickets]

INCOMING IN 2020…La Gaîté Lyrique presents:
SUNN O))) – Let There Be Drone / One Residence, Two Concepts, Three Concerts
1/30/2020 / Life Metal
2/01/2019 / Life Metal
2/02/2020 / Shoshin (初心)

Review copies of Pyroclasts will be released in the weeks ahead. For coverage of SUNN O))) in The Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com, all others contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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