SUNN O))): Northeastern USA/Southeast Canada Tour Begins Sunday, Followed By Performance At Convergence Festival In London

SUNN O))) bring their immense music back to the Northeast USA and Southeastern end Canada with a week of shows, beginning this Sunday, March 12th in Washington, DC followed by shows in Pittsburgh, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia through March 18th. Support on all shows will be provided by Southern Lord labelmates, Montreal-based/Southern Lord-signed Big|Brave, who have been seen opening for SUNN O))) on last year’s tours of the Southwest, Southeast and Midwest states and Europe.

Directly on the heels of the North American run, SUNN O))) will make a special appearance at London’s massive performing arts venue, Barbican Centre, as part of this year’s Convergence Festival on March 21st. Support for the performance will come from Icelandic singer and cellist, Hildur Guðnadóttir, who has played and recorded with bands such as Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, and Múm. Guðnadóttir also wrote the arrangements for the Wildbirds & Peacedrums session as part of the Barbican’s Nils Frahm curated Possibly Colliding marathon weekend in July.

SUNN O))) Tour Dates:

3/12/2017 930 Club – Washington, DC w/ Big | Brave
3/13/2017 The Rex – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Big | Brave
3/14/2017 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Toronto, ON w/ Big | Brave
3/15/2017 La Sat – Montreal, QC w/ Big | Brave
3/16/2017 The Coolidge – Boston, MA w/ Big | Brave
3/17/2017 Knockdown Center – Brooklyn, NY w/ Big | Brave
3/18/2017 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA w/ Big | Brave
3/21/2017 Barbican – London, UK @ Convergence Festival w/ Hildur Guðnadóttir

SUNN O))) To Tour Northeastern USA, Southeast Canada In March; Digital Bandcamp Sale And Free Track Available Through The Year’s End

The first set of SUNN O))) tour dates for 2017 sees the collective bringing their dense and arrhythmic blend of metal, drone, and minimalist music back to the Northeast USA and Southeastern realms of Canada for a week of performances. SUNN O))) will converge in Washington DC on March 12th, following with shows in Pittsburgh, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia confirmed through March 18th. Support on all shows will be provided by Southern Lord labelmates, Montreal-based Big|Brave, whom have also joined SUNN O))) on their recent tours of the Southwest, Southeast and Midwest states and Europe.

This follows the recent announcement of SUNN O)))‘s appearance at London’s massive performing arts venue, Barbican Centre, as part of this year’s Convergence Festival on March 21st. Support for the performance will come from Icelandic singer and cellist, Hildur Guðnadóttir, who has played and recorded with bands such as Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, and Múm. Guðnadóttir also wrote the arrangements for the Wildbirds & Peacedrums session as part of the Barbican’s Nils Frahm curated Possibly Colliding marathon weekend in July.

Tickets for the East Coast shows go on sale this Friday, December 23rd at 10am local time. Tickets for the Barbican performance are available HERE.

As Winter Solstice approaches, SUNN O))) extends thanks to their fans for their support throughout 2016, and as a token of their appreciation, offer a free track as well as a digital sale through the rest of the year. Fans can now find the exclusive track «青木ヶ原 // 樹海» (aka “Aokigahara // Jukai” from the flexi 7″ which was released together with some vinyl copies of Kannon) for free download through the end of December at THIS LOCATION. To take advantage of the 35% Bandcamp discount, go to sunn.bandcamp.com or sunn-live.bandcamp.com and enter discount code SOLSTICE2016.

SUNN O))) Tour Dates:

3/12/2017 930 Club – Washington, DC w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/13/2017 The Rex – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/14/2017 Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Toronto, ON w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/15/2017 La Sat – Montreal, QC w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/16/2017 The Coolidge – Boston, MA w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/17/2017 Knockdown Center – Brooklyn, NY w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/18/2017 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA w/ Big | Brave [tickets]
3/21/2017 Barbican – London, UK @ Convergence Festival w/ Hildur Guðnadóttir [tickets]

SUNN O))) Announces 2017 Performance At The Barbican As Part Of Convergence Festival

Support for the show comes from classically trained Icelandic singer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir who has played and recorded with bands such as Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, and Múm, as well as her solo project Lost In Hildurness, and has previously toured with Animal Collective and SUNN O))). Guðnadóttir also wrote the arrangements for the Wildbirds & Peacedrums session as part of the Barbican’s Nils Frahm curated marathon weekend Possibly Colliding in July 2016.

This show is produced by the Barbican in association with Convergence. Tickets will go on sale first to Barbican Members this Thursday, December 1st, followed by general sale on Friday, December 2nd HERE.

This past Summer, SUNN O))) toured the 2015 Kannon LP across Europe, taking in incredible settings along the way, such as a performance in the center of the world’s largest labyrinth, Labirinto Della Masone in rural Italy. Check out Rolling Stone Italy’s live gallery from that phenomenal evening HERE.

Stream SUNN O)))’s studio albums and live sets at their Bandcamp at THIS LOCATION.

BRAND NEW SUNN 0))) 12″ 180 gram vinyl now available for pre-order

THE LATEST GRIMM INCARNATE FROM THE DISGUSTING DUO.

PVRE HELLISH RIFF-MANGLING.

180 GRAM BLACK VINYL

Rec: Los Angeles 012
Mix: Paris 013

MASTERED BY BRAD BOATRIGHT

SIDE A: LAST ONE / VALENTINE’S DAY (18:02)
SIDE B: INVISIBLE / SLEEPER (20:26)

SOMA020/LORD180

A SPLIT LABEL RELEASE ©2013 BETWEEN IDEOLOGIC ORGAN & SOUTHERN LORD

MAXIMUM VOLUME YIELDS MAXIMUM RESULTS

DIGITAL VERSION OF THE ALBUM HERE: http://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/la-reh-2012

SUNN O))) & ULVER: The Story Of Their Collaboration Revealed; First Audio Sample Unveiled

With words from the creators themselves, the story of how the impending collaborative Terrestrials LP from SUNN O))) and ULVER was conceptualized and created has been dispatched to the public, in addition to the first auditory indication of the material the album presents.

Oslo, Norway, August 10th, 2008. Following their 200th gig, playing before 2000 people at the Øya festival, SUNN O))) teamed up with Norwegian legends ULVER at their Oslo studio, Crystal Canyon. They recorded three “live in improvisation” pieces, starting that evening and ending at dawn, as Northern sunlight seeped in through the windows.

“We were sitting in the console room, early in the morning, listening to the takes. Someone said, ‘ah, sunrise over Crystal Canyon,’ as if the night had been a dark one. We all laughed and Greg proposed it as a title. In that setting it sounded perfect. The boys had mentioned wanting the music to orient towards the light, like some lost pilgrim stretching before the sun. We kept that mental picture for the processing.” – Kristoffer Rygg

That take became the album’s opening piece, “Let There Be Light,” which builds up from silence and darkness and proceeds – ceremoniously, coruscating – O’Malley and O’Sullivan creating the backdrop for Rygg’s Basso Profondo chants. The music unfolds over eight minutes before reaching a crescendo of bass and brass, introducing both Anderson and ULVER as we know them. The Sunn has risen.

“Western Horn” accelerates on a single and austere note of sustained bass and low end, evolving gradually into a haunted soundscape. Crying violins, clusters of Fender Rhodes, guitar pickups, and metal plate drones are gradually layered beneath Anderson’s augmented bass feedback.

“Eternal Return” introduces Rygg singing a lyric evoking ancient Greece, Egypt and the Biblical lands. The song is palindromic, echoing the lyric, beginning and ending with the same bass line and musical pattern, though the guitars are ultimately reversed as the song implodes upon itself.

After the session, ULVER spent a fortnight enhancing the dynamics of the original recordings, adding their own distinctive sheen to the mix, while never losing sight of the SUNN O))) gestaltqualität and remaining careful not to become caught up in studio stratagems.

O’Malley would join ULVER once in a blue moon to develop and sculpt the production more closely with Rygg – overseeing additional recordings of trumpet, viola and violin and attempting to illuminate, and preserve, the unique atmosphere of the collaboration. Over the course of several of these short visits, now some years since the original recording session took place, things slowly and steadily grew to become Terrestrials.

“I remember the vibe in the room back then was more rāga than it was rock. And despite the fact that the walls were literally shaking from volume, it was actually quite a blissed out, psychedelic session. I wanted to preserve that vibe in the final mix.”
– Stephen O’Malley

And while Pandit Shankar (may he rest in peace) was not physically present, his spirit loomed large, perhaps together with a few nameless Persian ghosts attracted by the boys’ mutual appreciation for composers like Conrad, Riley, Glass, Alice Coltrane and Shivkumar Sharma.

“You know that opening sequence of Koyaanisqatsi, where the desolate desert landscapes, waves and cloud formations roll over the screen accompanied by deep male chanting and organ ostinatos. That’s where we were.” – Daniel O’Sullivan

So: serene, vociferous, and visually charged stuff. Supreme sounds of synergy from two seminal forces – and friends. Remember to play loud.

In advance of Terrestrials’ street date, now confirmed as February 4th, 2014 in North America, an excerpt of Terrestrials’ immense third composition, “Eternal Return,” is now playing AT THIS LOCATION.

Terrestrials Track Listing:

1. Let There Be Light

2. Western Horn

3. Eternal Return

Additional information and samples from the Terrestrials experiment will be available in the coming weeks prior to the album’s release.