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 duo 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 and recorded 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."
"Seattle's Midday Veil stops off in Portland for the first date of a West Coast tour, a jaunt that will likely squeegee clean a number of third eyes along the way. Its brand of mind-expanding psychedelia rarely gets above a snail's pace, allowing you to experience every spiraling guitar run and droning bleat of the band's vintage synthesizers, as well as the fluttering arc of Emily Pothast's space-mother vocals. It's a sound custom designed to coax you down the rabbit hole, leaving you blissfully lost in wonderland."
"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."
[Translinguistic Other] Improvised material channeled from the cosmic beyond in September 2009. Mastered by Mell Dettmer at Aleph Studios. Edition of 300 with handmade screenprinted covers.
Queen of the Void
[Translinguistic Other] A pagan rock mini-epic unfolding over two expansive tracks recorded by Midday Veil at the Josephine in May 2009. Mixed and mastered by Mell Dettmer. Edition of 300 with handmade screenprinted covers.
End of Time[S/R] Holographic folk songs bloom from shimmering synth tendrils on this CDR recorded by Emily and David at home during the duo phase of the band's history (c. May-December 2008). Edition of 50 with handmade covers. SOLD OUT.
UPCOMING:
Midday Veil has plans to record our first studio album 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
I know about veils. I am under one too - a veil of iron - or a mask of irony ?
I finally found a way to REALLY get away from it all - PERMANENTLY if the welding is done right. It..s so exciting I felt motivated to snap a picture - to remember me by ?
I..ve included a link to a radio show I did last week at KPFA in Berekley with The ALIENS - The Roky Erickson ALIENS - now back and now backing Powell St. John - the guy who started it all those years ago writing songs for the Elevators.
If you guys ever run into Neil Skok tell him The ALIENS say "hello" - or "goodbye" ?
I have an angel on my shoulder - wishing you all good luck.
Please check out the Blood Drained Cows music player widgit on our page. I also play with them (BDC) and we would love to play in Seattle soon.
