microphones in the trees: annapurna illusion
Showing posts with label annapurna illusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label annapurna illusion. Show all posts

Saturday, May 12, 2012

high wolf


"ascendent, crystallized tones from High Wolf.  calm, mantric expansions, burning at the center.  France's finest in contemporary psych." sun ark


sun araw meets cetacean nation cassettes...la emoción más grande. no sé si es porque hace tiempo que estoy abducida por lieven moana, pero tengo la sensación de que high wolf no habían hecho nunca un disco tan contemplativo y acuático, tan bonito, tan étnico, tan a baja fidelidad. cuando piensas que los tambores y palos de agua sin fin de 'obsessions history', (“...i love to mix all those drum sounds from various places in the same piece of music), es lo más bonito del mundo, aparece 'mlk', y después 'khi', y después 'pandu', …y quieres que los minutos pasen despacio, que no se acabe nunca, un vaivén incontrolable e insistente como las olas del mar. vuelvo atrás y me doy cuenta de que 'khi' es la canción que más se acerca a lo que de verdad suena en mi cabeza cuando pienso en la palabra mantra  o que hay un mundo mágico paralelo. pero entonces suena 'oedipus' y... hay que escuchar para creer, max no es de este mundo, si acaso de uno submarino o de uno celestial. 'know thyself' es un cúmulo de sensaciones que me siento incapaz de abarcar, la sonrisa eterna, el sumum de la meditación trascendental y el ambient psicodélico

fotos via onyx earth & luke byrne

Monday, February 27, 2012

voodoo mount sister | annapurna illusion | hellvision


"Voodoo Mount Sister  makes it on tape for the first time. Following 2010 debut cdr on Winged Sun and first vinyl appearance on Hands in the dark records “Soul Sista” is their weird attempt to bring soul music in noise / drone improvisations. Recorded in one session in July 2011 that went in many different directions, from dark kraut to noisy dub to psych dance. The girl is on synths and vocals, the guy is on beats & bass."



A side : Old dusty files from 2009 that sounds like an old babylonian conjuring the spirit deads…Like if the necronomicon book turned into a tape…Heavy organ chords, black mess style.

B side : One night in Belgium. The meting of Annapurna Illusion and Helvette (Glen Steenkiste from Sylvester Anfang II), under the full moon, after a few smokes and a couple of drinks. Two exhausted minds improvising minimal dark drones.

foto: reuben wu

Thursday, January 05, 2012

annapurna illusion

"...The music on Life Is An Illusion is gigantic and all-encompassing, conjuring up images of towering mountains, lost gods and swirling cosmos. At the same time, he elegantly suffuses his insistent and open-ended drones with touches of industrial noise and saturation that in less capable hands would seem out of place or clumsy. As such, Life Is An Illusion is one of the most accomplished synth drone albums released this last decade, and a welcome addition to the great kosmische canon." the liminal


"Annapurna Illusion, from France, is the evil twin of Not Not Fun's High Wolf. 'Life Is An Illusion' is scattered with fizzing electric guitars and ambient raga's which unfurl with the might of a psychedelic blizzard, fogging the sponges of the brain and eyeballs with a wash of hallucinations where Ash Ra Temple jam for hours on end with Loop. Tropical repetitive rhythms drone and drift, guided by a swarm of breezy effects and celestial layered synths that engulf the base of the mountain in hypnotic swirls of colourful head spinning rituals before zipping airborne to glide in a state of tranced euphoria." clearspot

fotos: ƒenk

Monday, May 09, 2011

wyld wyzrdz • stag hare / high wolf • annapurna illusion

"Two peace offerings from Wyld and Stag"


"High Wolf's 23-minute contribution, "Amazonian Love Call" recalls the sounds we have enjoyed from him to date, a humid combination of tribal beats, expansive guitars, and whispy synths. Annapurna shares in a similar jungle trance, but is harsher in tone..." altered zones

Friday, December 10, 2010

high wolf / masaki nakazawa


"Masaki Nakazawa, from the amazing band Topping Bottoms, is easily one of my favorite guitarists in the world. I just spent one month touring Japan with him, saw him play almost every day, jammed with him numerous times. What I can say is when he plays it's like his japanese tatoos take life and every ghost from ancient Japan, every kami is summoned. Winged Sun is more than proud to release his first solo piece ever. A side long reverb desert blues with haunting percussion, reminding me of Sun Araw's "The Phynx".

High Wolf shares the tape with one long 15 minutes piece showing a lot of range. It's starting with the furthest exploration of his dark side ever put on record (spent too much time with Annapurna Illusion), then turn into a psychedelic jam sounding like we're back at pharao's times and we have those fucking pyramids to build and concludes with a totally stoned improvisation, mainly acoustic, with a good dose of spiritual music and a spirit of tribe communion. maybe the best winged sun release so far, trust me on this one." winged sun

Saturday, October 09, 2010

l'amazon ram arkestra

"L'Amazon Ram Arkestra want to show a new side of biotope psychedelic music. Influenced by the music of western improvisation king bands such as Vibracathedral Orchestra, Second Family Band or Golden Jooklo Age with a bit of rainforest wet atmosphere." winged sun

entrevista a high wolf / annapurna illusion

foto: joshua whitelaw

Thursday, February 11, 2010

annapurna illusion

"annapurna illusion starts with epic, ritual ambient from France. Their drones are extremly psychedelic compressedand ethnic like one side of indian ritual music. They begin with a three parted story called "Sumatra" part 1, 2 and 3.
Niagara Falls gives you a special feeling of of their own psychedelic krautrock ideas, filled up with dreamy instrumental parts, combined with their special synergie of human and sytheziser. They start with "Comet Pills" followed by one of my favorit songs at the moment "Traumgekrönt." amid the waves
(cortesía de brontosonix)

Monday, February 08, 2010

annapurna iIlusion

"Annapurna Illusion is still confidential but this is like High Wolf alter ego in a darker / krautrock aesthetic, with previous releases on Earjerk and Reverb Worship before cassette coming soon on Peasant Magik . Here is two long tracks alternating kosmiche synthetizer, psychedelic jams and doooom voice mantras. The other side of the Winged Sun looking glass." winged sun
la mejor definición sería muy winged sun...y eso es, como siempre, el mejor piropo. para muestra los ocho minutos siete segundos de out of mind, !!!. feliz de haber colaborado con la portada