PREVIEW: The Outer Church 11th August: Strange Aeons with Ensemble Economique, High Wolf & The Wyrding Module

Preview repost plagiarised straight from The Outer Church itself, except to say from me to repeat in case you don't notice....

High Wolf everybody!  HIGH WOLF IS COMING TO TOWN!!!!!! >>>

As ever, The Outer Church brings you a line-up notable for its consistency and immersive potential, complementary layers of sound and vision offering a portal beyond the mundane. It's not just a gig... it's The Outer Church.

Starving Weirdo Brian Pyle presents a live performance in his solo guise as Ensemble Economique, touching on contemporary composition, electronic soundtracks and troubled drift. Last year's Psychical (Not Not Fun) drew plaudits from all quarters, and his forthcoming album for Dekorder is set to build on that album's uncanny success.







A modern psychedelic phenomenon, High Wolf - otherwise known as Max - has recorded for Winged Sun,
Not Not Fun, Moamoo and Holy Mountain and collaborated with Astral Social Club on the Iibiis Rooge project. Prepare for a dizzying demonstration of Pyramidal Meditation.




The Wyrding Module is a solo project from paramusician Christopher Gladwin, one half of Team Doyobi (Skam, ICASEA). The psychotronic sounds of the Module are inspired by Kosmische Musik, mantra-rock, post-industrial ambience and the occult.




Visual Hex by James R Moore aka Black Mountain Transmitter

DOWNLOAD: Kunlun - II (Winged Sun)

Kunlun
II
(Winged Sun)
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More delirious voodoo trance drone from France's globe-wandering psych shamen Max, aka High Wolf, Annapurna Illusion, one half of Iibiis Rooge and fully in control of the hallucinatory voyage he takes his listenes on.  Kunlun is another project that bears all the prints of his fingers on the burbling synths and sparsely propulsive slo-mo congotronic beats. This is the second release after I that was reelase din November.  It;s Max's most minimal project in all ways, with the album name II and tracks simply called A and B and a music that is equally minimal in its sense of single mindedness and unhurried development. There's a coolness to the way both 14 minute tracks open out from brittle beginnings into a more dynamic range of sounds, effected loops twittering away, synth lines moving steadily through an increasingly diverse range of hums that echo the strange biological starburst of the cover art.

Catch High Wolf playing at August's Outer Church at Brighton Komedia on the 11th.

VIDEO: High Wolf - Étoile Star

Here's a recently produced video clip for Étoile Star,  poured forth from the third eye of wandering voodoo tribal drone priest High Wolf, set to meditative visions conjured by Lautreamont RA studios. The track is taken from this year's Not Not Fun released cassette Étoile 3030.

The recently released Guide To Healing 7" on Bathetic and the split 12" on Group Tightener with his own side-project Annapurna Illusion are getting heavy plays in my place. Quietly, but insistently one of the most involving and engrossing artists around at the moment

Check out more stuff on Bandcamp and his own label Winged Sun

DOWNLOAD: High Wolf - Japan Tour 2010 CDR

If you saw my top 50 of the year, you would have read how good last year's Shangri L.A. is, and know how high a regard I hold French one-man jungle groove machine High Wolf.  He's all sold out of his special Japanese Tour released CDr, and it's up for downloading from his own label Winged Sun's Bandcamp at a fee of  name-your-price.  Jump on that HERE. 

He's off to the US for a Not Not Fun-related tour that started last night in Seattle and heads into the depths of SXSW for an NNF showcase, alongside other psychedelic luminaries such as Plankton Wat, Pete Swanson, Starving Weirdos, Sun Araw, Robedoor and more - check out the poster on their site for more dates and details:  ▲▲▲

Relatedly, I also strongly recommend you get the L'Amazon Ram Arkestra album from HERE for similar kind of steamy percussive thrust.That name should tune you in to the right plane of mental being.

DOWNLOAD: Mpala Garoo / Sunbells Fenimore

Mpala Garoo is another of my top finds from Russia's underground - actually, this one was given to me by Twilight Owls - and is one of the better artists I've come across. Just one man - Ivan - plays a similar kind of summery tropical heat-haze as Ducktails. There's a fifteen minute, four track album available to download from Last.fm track by track, which I've reposted here.

The first track Open Way Up High's reverb soaked chillwave swing feels very much in thrall to Landscapes, which is no complaint at all. It is a beautifully languid shimmer of a track that lasts for an all too short 2.24 - I could easily leave this on repeat for twenty minutes and not tire of it.  The second tracks wheezy little organ flourish adds a wonderful background tone to the similar lithe guitar work shaking it's hips around the foreground while a shuffling conga beat gently harries it. Magic Fiesta has a bit of the spooky jungle groove of High Wolf about it - gurgling drums and a slightly warped focus make it a progression and deviation from the previous two tracks to signify something worthwhile going on out there.

01. Open Way Up High
02. Primitiittii
03. Magic Fiesta
04. Kid Island


Ivan also plays in Sunbells Fenimore; a project that features the same island guitar tone and pace from Mpala, but it's fattened out with some deeper oceanic riffs; thick trancy tendrils of tone that weave around the bubbles of guitar notes, and pushes things that much further away from the safety of the shoreline - things gets pretty turbulent in Paradising, but no less hypnotic as the chaotic crashing and fizzing carries the metaphor of the sea, blistering heat, salty spray and boiling breakers into sonic realisation. I guess there's a Nu-Age flotation element to it, despite the more caustic nature it retains a sense of centred focus that the more musically kinetic Mpala doesn't have. It's a natural deviation; recalling the fiery return to Earth of Oneohtrix Point Never or the tranquility of Dolphins Into The Future, a lucid sky-gazing treatise on sun-soaked mystical spirituality.  Go to his BANDCAMP for three tracks of meditational serenity.