"What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying?
For WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd official album by Mount Eerie.
A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver’s NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal. Like these influences, WIND’S POEM also drifts back and forth between a “dream world”, where the wind screams about fleeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.
The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie’s only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear" forcefieldpr
foto: coquineteFor WIND’S POEM by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd official album by Mount Eerie.
A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver’s NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal. Like these influences, WIND’S POEM also drifts back and forth between a “dream world”, where the wind screams about fleeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.
The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie’s only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear" forcefieldpr
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tendrá algo que ver este disco con "i lost my wind" de the microphones?? qué ganas de oir ese disco, voy a por él :)
ReplyDeletegracias carol! qué preciosa between two mysteries (me recuerda a algo y no sé a qué), y ancient questions, stone's ode, trough the trees,
ReplyDeletemy heart is not at piece, wind speaks, summons,...
rafa aquí bien podría ser phil elverum :)
rafa??? debe ser la primera vez en diez años que me llamas así!
ReplyDelete:D cómo pías
ReplyDeleterencomanías aquí bien podría ser phil elverum :)
así sí, ana =:->
ReplyDeleteFalling!:)
ReplyDeletepor cierto, es cosa mía o también suena esa melodía en ancient questions?
renco, te acuerdas de cuando vimos a julee cruise en el vade?
me acuerdo, me acuerdo, parecía un fraggle!!! pero lo que más me gustó aquel día fue Khan, te acuerdas? :)
ReplyDeletecaro esa mini foto mola mucho!
Dit is door en ver van de heme best geef aangezien vrij, ik weet zelfs niet. Ik krijg zo dit op vinyl wanneer het komt.
ReplyDeleteno sé si tendrá que ver que vamos por la mitad de la segunda temporada de Twin Peaks, pero me ha encantado este disco. no sé si quedarme con la atmosfera, las bateria blackmetaleras o la voz de phil elverum...
ReplyDeletejulee cruise siempre ha sido un poco fraggle, no? en el episodio de twin peaks lo es más que nunca :)
ostras!! y se deja ver bien la serie?? uuuf, qué miedo pasaba con los bailes del enanito y con la cabeza de bob asomando al final de la cama :S
ReplyDeletesi, se deja ver muy bien. al menos mientras es David Lynch el que la dirige, a partir del capítulo 10 de la segunda temporada la cosa decae bastante, casi parece otra serie. eso si, lo que hay antes a mi me encanta. Y sigue inquietando bastante :)
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