The second creative endeavor for the year from the great Sunn O))) is actually a "sister" or "shadow" album to the very much immersive Life Metal, released last April. Pyroclasts comes out October 25th, 2019 via Southern Lord.
Recorded in July 2018 by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio during the same sessions as Life Metal, the upcoming Pyroclasts is composed of four improvisational pieces that were the band's daily twelve-minute practice, "timed with a stopwatch and tracked to two inch tape," as the participants absorbed themselves into complete creative mode.
For these four tracks Sunn O)))'s steady core of Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson is accompanied by Tim Midyett, T.O.S. and Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Opening piece, Frost (C) offers a solid foretaste of what the new record has to offer, and like everything else in this forward thinking group's body of work, it is exquisite and full on enveloping.
Sunn O))) will be very soon embarking on a European tour, with guests Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug duo, Puce Mary and Anna Von Hausswolff on selected dates.
Photo by Joshua Ford
LET THERE BE DRONE (MULTIPLE GAINS STAGES) OCTOBER 2019
October 7 DE, Munich Backstage Werk with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 8 DE, Karlsruhe HfG / ZKM with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 9 CH, Basel Rosstall with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 10 DE, Leipzig Felsenkeller with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 11 PL, Krakow Unsound festival
October 13 LT, Vilnius Kablys with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 14 EE, Tallinn Vene Theatre with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 15 FIN, Helsinki Kulttuuritalo with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem
October 17 SE, Stockholm Kraken with Carl Michael Von Hausswolff
October 18 NO, Oslo Kulturkirchen Jakob with Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug duo
October 19 NO, Oslo Blä, Shoshin (初心) Duo show with Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug duo DJ set
October 21 DK, Copenhagen Koncerthuset with Puce Mary
October 22 NL, Nijmegen Doornroosje
October 24 UK, Bristol SWX with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 25 UK, Glasgow QMU with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 26 UK, Birmingham The Crossing with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 27 UK, Manchester Albert Hall with Anna Von Hausswolff
October 28 UK, London Roundhouse with Anna Von Hausswolff
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