Each other, eternity, improvisation, DIY depth psychology, sacred geometry, Terry Riley, Amon Düül, Can, NEU!, Faust, Circle, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies/United States of America, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Schulze, Morton Feldman, György Ligeti, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, Angelo Badalamenti, Talking Heads, Joseph Campbell, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Buddhist chants, gamelan, western and Indian classical music, form constants, Labradford, Digital Underground, The Tower Recordings, MV + EE, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Carl Jung, Aldous Huxley, Heraclitus, Moondog, Fursaxa, Leonard Cohen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Acid Mothers Temple, Sumitra Guha, Jimi Hendrix, Iannis Xenakis, Josephine Foster, Linda Perhacs, Wooden Shjips, Eternal Tapestery, Gong, Joni Mitchell, Björk, Diamanda Galás, Meredith Monk, Climax Golden Twins, Master Musicians of Bukkake, SUNN O))), Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic, Black Sabbath, Ken Ueno, Simon Henneman, the music of the spheres, the wisdom of the decomposers, death and resurrection.
Eluding tidy categorization, Midday Veil draws from an ever-deepening well of influences including sacred and world music, folk, drone, blues, metal, avant-garde, free jazz, new age and krautrock.
The band began as the musical offspring of David Golightly, a classically trained composer and vintage synth freak, and Emily Pothast, a visual artist, singer-songwriter and suspected reincarnation of Hildegard von Bingen. The current lineup also includes Timm Mason (aka Debacle/Aphonia solo artist Mood Organ) on baritone guitar and Chris Pollina on drums and the occasional banjo. Midday Veil has also collaborated, recorded, and communed extensively with multi-instrumentalist Simon Henneman (of Diminished Men and Mt. Non Fiction Records).
PRESS:
"I once saw a sign in a New York City storefront that read "ALL IS BLISS." It was one of the most beautiful—if illusory—axioms I've ever seen. And it just might be Midday Veil's guiding principle. Vocalist Emily Pothast has affinities for country music, soul, and blues, but her alluring earthiness comes equipped with an equally ravishing ethereality, which complements the band's more kosmische tendencies. Throughout Midday Veil's expansive, incantatory psychedelia, analog-synth wizard David Golightly meticulously, delicately coaxes star-dusted oscillations."
"If you ate some mushrooms and wanted to take a spiritual journey, this is the kind of thing you might put on the stereo. ...it would induce one hell of a trip."
End of Time, a limited release CDR documenting the duo phase of the band's history, is SOLD OUT here, although a few copies may be hanging around at Dissonant Plane and Wall of Sound in Seattle.
Two new limited CD releases are coming out in November 2009 under the imprint Translinguistic Other: Queen of the Void, a pagan rock mini-epic recorded last May with Simon Henneman on lead guitar, and Subterranean Ritual an improvised full-length channeled from the cosmic beyond during a single all-night session in September.
Midday Veil has plans to record our first LP at Aleph Studios in early 2010. We are on the lookout for the right label to release this project.
HAIL AUTUMN! the air is crisping…leaves are turning…and…
By the Hum of Ullr's Bow - A Winter Songs Compilation - comes with the magazine and is also available separately. It includes the following:
A Minority of One, Allerseelen, Andrew King, At the Head of the Woods, Beastianity, Hamramr, Irij, Ironwood, Ruhr Hunter, Sangre Cavallum, Sieben, Steve von Till, Svarrogh, Waldteufel, Wardruna
Good to see you the other night, too! That tree smelled funny, but I ended up with two little stuffed animals to take home. Always fun with you two. xoxo, Karri
