Theo Angell & The Tabernacle Hillside Singers: General Info
Member Since
4/6/2007
Band Members
Live on Sept. 11 at the Glasslands with Ilyas Ahmed and Hamish Kilgour
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=18863404
To see pics of Theo and the Tabernacle Singers Live at the Bottling Smoke Festival in LA
Go here http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedraggett/sets/72157600275058943/
Influences
Silken wind hounds and the muse fortress..................
Also.......Hall of Fame's second album is being released again. This time in vinyl.
Some say this is our best album ever.
Go to: http://www.amishrecords.com/main_purchase.html
or their website in general to check out a track from the LP.
Sounds Like
Other Recordings:
Theo Angell (Featuring the Tabernacle Hillside Singers)
Dearly Beloved -
Amish Records
- Hall of Fame -
s/t Amish Records
-Hall of Fame-
First Came Love Then Came the Tree-
Amish Records...
(p.s. soon to be re-released on VINYL by the AMISH)
+Hall of Fame+
s/t Siltbreeze Records
+Theo Angell+
The Lost Recordings of Yukio Mishima
=Polyamory Records
+Hall of Fame+
Paradise Now =
Social Registry
+Flags of the Sacred Harp+
Jackie-O Motherfucker =
ATP Records
...and several other and various JOMF recordings
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Record Label
Digitalis Industries, Amish Records and Polyamory
Type of Label
Indie
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About Theo Angell & The Tabernacle Hillside Singers
Our new full length record AURAPLINTH is out now on Digitalis Industries.
You can purchase a copy from their website:
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/rec_index.html.............................................................................
A truly original, brilliant and beautiful album, Auraplinth is imbued from start to finish with strong melodies, interesting arrangements, pretty fingerpicking and haunting vocals. Despite the aforementioned originality, Auraplinth is not without context, discerning listeners will hear eches of Wickerman, Smog, Tom Z, Jandek, Maitreya Kali, Wooden Wand, British Isles and New Age guitar players such as William Ackerman, not to mention an almost magical synthesis of psyche-folk past and present.
Though the sound of Auraplinth is uniformly organic, the instrumentation and vibe shifts constantly throughout the record - from solo vocals backed by simple acoustic guitar, to British Isles folk fingerpicking, to a relaxed full band. These changes and progressions lend the album a narrative, long-form feel - even Angell's voice has a chameleonlike quality - from a haunted tenor that evokes thoughts of Devendra Banhart to a deep Bill Callahan bass - the man has many faces. Appropriately, then, the album cover features not a photograph of Angell but a mask - specifically a Victorian death mask of the artist.
Cover art for Auraplinth was done by the artist Christian Holstad, and the record was mastered by Pete Swanson of Yellow Swans fame. Other contributors to the success of Auraplinth include the ‘Tabernacle Hillside Singers’. This loose group consists of Dan Brown from Hall of Fame, Josh Stevenson of Magneticring and the folk singer Cynthia Nelson whose excellent solo work and magnificent live performances, if I may digress, must also be checked out.
If the tone shifts subtly from song to song, things take a sharp turn midway through, at "Flurdrid Mourning" where the words, guitars and drums are stripped away, and the listener is left with the haunting, ringing bass of a bodhran and creepy, vocal incantations that would feel perfectly at home in the sort of occult rituals that one would imagine a guy with a beard as long as Angell's probably performs in the woods when he finds the time to escape his New York City home. Things continue in this vein through the next track which exchanges tambourine for the bodhran before easing the listener back into the pretty guitar folk vein established previously.
Despite previous releases under this name, and work with Jackie-O-Motherfucker and Hall of Fame, Theo Angell remains a relatively unknown name. This album will change that; Auraplinth is a brilliant, distinct and memorable record from a powerful new talent in psyche-folk............
From the Left Hip - Gordon B. Isnor
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Hey Theo, Like the tunes! Devan and I miss ya and hope you are doing well! I leave for Cambodia the day after Christmas and Devan will be on his own here for a month. XOXOXO Dev & Amie
