Barn Owl
 

I can't find a thread about this band, and I happen to be listening to ''Bridge To the Clouds'', which is a rather beautiful record. Anyway, the usual drill.

bone awl

yeah barn owl are awesome, especially live.

Raft of Serpents is excellent.

Barn Owl has always specialized in devotional darkness, pushing desert rock into previously unexplored, murky territories. V marks a shift in approach for the duo of Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti. The pair augmented their arsenal of guitars and effects with an array of electronics, vastly expanding the album’s sounds and textures. Special attention was given to implied rhythms nestled within dense slow building environments, giving album a rhythmic presence, albeit one that is buried beneath intricate layers. Theirs is a ghostly rhythm, almost beyond reach.

For years, the duo experimented with the idea of doom dub and in some ways have finally realized that vision. In addition to dub, V is informed by musique concrete, library music, and minimal techno. The opener “Void Redux” begins with a spectral synthesizer coming in and out of focus, tracing a skeletal melodic line that is gradually enveloped by deep bass tones and flecks of static hiss. As the song progresses, the band creates a subtle rhythmic interplay between a drum machine and the decay of a delayed guitar, harkening back to the Black Ark. A significant evolution in the way Barn Owl construct their music is exemplified by the track "The Opulent Decline”. Originally a 30-minute improvisation, the final, 17-minute track was composed though editing and augmentation. Throughout the album the timbres and textures of each piece are constantly mutating, fluctuating with an anxious restlessness. For example, on the track “The Long Shadow,” the guitars chime forebodingly before melting into a blur of organ. Porras explains, “It was our goal to harness the fluidity and unpredictability of improvisation within considered arrangements. Special care was taken to convey the ever-changing flow through each piece, a continually shifting set of colors and textures and atmospheres." Stasis is not an option.

Barn Owl recorded V with Phil Manley at LCR in their native San Francisco during the cold and foggy summer of 2012. Working with electronics allowed the duo more freedom to create the album layer by layer, designing each sound and each section individually. Porras and Caminiti utilized the huge timbral range of synthesizers to augment the already massive and vitally physical sounds they have achieved with guitars and effects. V is the most complex and diverse album by Barn Owl to date.

Barn Owl will be play select US cities and tour the UK and Europe extensively this spring.


Upcoming Tour Dates - 2013
Apr 21, 2013 Milan, Italy Spazio Concept
Apr 23, 2013 Lyon, France Sonic
Apr 24, 2013 Paris, France Espace B
Apr 25, 2013 Brussels, Belgium LR6
Apr 26, 2013 Bristol, UK The Cube
Apr 27, 2013 Birmingham, UK St Paul's Church
Apr 28, 2013 Glasgow, UK The Old Hairdressers
Apr 29, 2013 Leeds, UK Wharf Chambers
Apr 30, 2013 Brighton, UK Green Door Store
May 01, 2013 London, UK The Lexington
May 02, 2013 Amsterdam, The Netherlands OCCII
May 03, 2013 Osnabrueck, Germany Haus der Jugend
May 04, 2013 Freiburg, Germany Schwarzwald (outdoor show)
May 05, 2013 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Exit07
May 06, 2013 Fribourg, Switzerland Fri-Son
May 07, 2013 Esslingen, Germany Komma
May 08, 2013 Berlin, Germany About Blank

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