Eternal:
Simon Wojan & Kip Uhlhorn
Collaboration:
Jerry Fuchs, Kelly Winkler, Jacob Morris, Mike Cancel, Robert Lowe, Jon Asher
Influences
Baraka & Brakhage
Sounds Like
Dear Cloudland Canyon,
I'm a kranky fan from way back but doesn't mean I doll out coin for every disc that rolls into my independent record store out of their Chicago catalog. I have exacting discretionary taste and eclectic demands. I run the blogs and soothsayer 'say I' music critic web worlds, but retain my opinion and intuitive monitor as the best meter of measure. It is better to be hipped later in the gathering pool than not to have jumped in at all. Silver Tongued Sisyphus is the beat storm of a world spinning south that no fleet of star ship rescue could save except perhaps the march of a certain son and some groovy, spacey sounds. Will a blight on the sun get their attention? Play hard, fast, and like you mean it. We'll listen in mass. Great disc. Thank you - Russell E Scott
Austin, TX
from AQUARIUS RECORDS
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CLOUDLAND CANYON Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004(Tee Pee) cd 16.98
This record totally knocked us for a loop. And the thing is, I'm not entirely sure we can explain why. This is one of those rare records that is darn near indescribable. The label suggest Cloudland Canyon would appeal to fans of Boards of Canada, Animal Collective, The Dead C., Ash Ra Tempel, This Heat, Gong, most of which we can definitely see (maybe not the Boards Of Canada), there is a definitely a far out krautrock vibe, some classic long lost, extra damaged super freaked out sixties or seventies psychedelia, but filtered through modern technology. It's almost like some super computer a million years in the future began picking up these strange transmissions from the old Earth, German Oak, Faust, Amon Duul, but after traveling billions of miles and being interpreted by some alien machinery, those songs and sounds came out sounding, well, completely fucking nuts!!!
It's like some sort of laptopped Dead C / Ash Ra mash up. Rich clouds of metallic shimmer surround looped guitars, creepy chanted vocals are submerged in demented spacey FX, dense deconstructed pop songs emerge from the chaos, rife with swirling vocals, and layer after layer of drone and processed harmonies, fuzzy shopping mall synth warbles beneath straining lo-fi vocals, the whole thing run through some intense stereo panning. Suddenly the band burst into some stomping propulsive psych rock jangle before the whole thing splinters into a gorgeous expanse of tranquil ambience, beneath delicately finger picked guitars, everything always within a cloud of mysterious sonic events. Dense cinematic soundscapes of keening high end and minor key pizzicato strings melt into super fuzzed out classic rock jams, with horns and pulsing basslines, but buried in a dense swirl of My Bloody Valentine haze, with relentlessly squiggly riffing, buried vocals, a dizzying array of chaotic sound, tinkling chimes and little bits of percussion. Strange collages of warped warbly sound drift into weird seventies circusy prog with calliope like organ, moody riffing, and awesome male / female vocals, like some totally drug drenched unhinged Fleetwood Mac. Nearing the end of the sonic journey, the record devolves into huge stretches of squiggly analog synth, tangled and intertwined into fuzzy warped low end drones, squirming and buzzing with the different layers constantly shifting and slipping in and out and around each other. Woah. Gorgeously and incredibly fucked. And thus completely recommended!!
Hello cloudland canyon! Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up! Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide. Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia /Ivan
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