White/Light on Smells Like Records

Moshe · 06.26.2008, 12:42 AM

White/Light - Black Acts CD

Second instrumental long-player from the princes of the Chicago drone herd, Jeremy Lemos and Matt Clark. Brainwave-flattering guitar & analog gadget noise jams, warm on the tails of their highly-praised 2007 collaboration with one-man psych-weirdo Lichens. Said Matt, to his momma: "You know, like Folke Rabe and his kid brother, with Ray-Bans and a Jazzmaster, man. Doesn't that make sense? Isn't that what we need right now?" Yeah, a United State of White/Light sounds alllll right. To be released later in 2008.

http://www.myspace.com/whitelightdrone

http://www.jeremylemos.com/

Moshe · 10.01.2008, 02:00 PM

Black Acts CD
Out Oct 28

Moshe · 10.18.2008, 01:06 AM

http://www.midheaven.com/artists/white.light.html

Artist:WHITE / LIGHTTitle:Black Acts Format:CDCatalog
Number:SLR034Price:$12.00Label:Smells LikeRelease
Date:10/20/08***Black Acts is the new one by Chicago drrrr-oh-oh-oh-oh-ne dudes White/Light. As in drone music. As in psychedelic, electric, amplified, instrumental, noisy, makes-your-family-crazy music. And not just your family; the families of everyone involved. Their self-titled CD from 2005 drove Matt Clark's mom nuts, but Jeremy Lemos's parents dug it. Lots of people dug their collaboration with Rob A.A. Lowe under the name White/Lichens (Holy Mountain, 2007) But this one? This one's dark, as in Dario Argento-style spooky. This one's gonna freak out Clark's mom and Lemos's parents, too. White/Light is a living-breathing collaboration between good friends. They get together in Lemos's studio, plug stuff in, and then listen to what happens. Guitars and pedals and amps and analog synths and more pedals and more amps, until the shit sounds like it's gonna melt. In the control room, they crack up at how beautifully hilarious and hilariously beautiful all that scuzz sounds. And then they do it again, with more pedals but fewer amps and maybe this time with an Indian Sruti box instead of a guitar and a bowed cymbal and some contact mics and tremolo and a shit-ton of reverb, and then back out through a spinning speaker and just one mic in the room facing the wrong way because Clark set it up this time. Oops. But any Tape-Op-obsessed college kid with a taste for Subotnik could do that stuff, right? Wrong. Black Acts is the result of noise-obsessed intuition incarnate. Lemos is a fantastic, musical engineer, and Clark's a wonderful musician. They truly love this stuff, whatever this stuff is; they're still trying to figure that one out. When the music doesn't make them both smile, they know it's not right, and they start over, which is why this one took two years to put together. But they finally did put this new one together because it was ready, because they nailed "it," whatever "it" is.

Moshe · 10.28.2008, 01:41 PM

Black Acts

There is no better time to release a dark and ominous drone album then three days before Halloween. This should give you time to obtain a copy or find a digital download before the trick or treater's come knocking. You should set a speaker next to your door and have something loud, dark, and frightening blasting through the darkness. In fact, that maybe exactly what Chicago's White/Light or their labelSmells Like Records were thinking when they chose October 28th for the release of Black Acts. Two years in the making, Black Acts is a seven song journey through the thick and slow moving noise that Jeremy Lemos and Matt Clark love to create.

What I like most about White/Light is that they don't take themselves too seriously. Don't get me wrong, they are talented musicians and engineers, but there is a certainly is a lighter side to this duo. They are always joking about how drone (or drrrr-oh-oh-oh-oh-ne as they put it) bothers their parents. They also have described their music as "beautifully hilarious and hilariously beautiful". I know beauty is subjective, but for me this album is not beautiful in the conventional sense of the word. However, if you were to look at it from a purely technical standpoint there may be an inherent beauty in the layers and effects and the overwhelming force of their sound.
If you missed Lemos and Clark's performance earlier this month at The Empty Bottle you can download the entire set from their blog for free.

- Jason Behrends

Moshe · 11.11.2008, 01:04 AM

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

Last year these guys teamed up with Robert Lowe, aka Lichens, for a killer collab on Holy Mountain that left us floored. Black Acts harbors the same type of synthy, visual drones that come reeling out of White/Lichens, only this time around the White/Light boys weave their brand of bliss into more desolate territory. The Chicago duo manage to conjure an impressive brand of dark analog hypnosis, like waking up in the middle of the desert to a shimmering pyramid mirage made of sound and light. Even while parts of the record hint at the early minimalist legacies of dudes like La Monte Young and Henry Flint, there is a subtle buzzy edge to these songs that set them apart from the work of their predecessors. The record opens with creeping high end crunch that builds into a pulsing haze of all-encompassing droooone. More low-end, distorted swells of heavy bass kick in and, man, talk about headphone dreamland. These dudes really know how to rocket a listener into another dimension. As the record spins the duo cover all kinds of territory, cosmic feedback bleeps from the cockpit of a spaceship, orchestral beams of long-winded swells, single note droners that leave you dazed and entranced. A heap of bodies on the cover and a heap of guitars, pedals and amps on the back, the artwork is cryptic and elusive, perfect for a beautifully arranged record of analog dreamscapes for the mellow minded.

MPEG Stream: "Dassin"

MPEG Stream: "Discipline"

06.26.2008, 12:42 AM	#1
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,862	White/Light - Black Acts CD Second instrumental long-player from the princes of the Chicago drone herd, Jeremy Lemos and Matt Clark. Brainwave-flattering guitar & analog gadget noise jams, warm on the tails of their highly-praised 2007 collaboration with one-man psych-weirdo Lichens. Said Matt, to his momma: "You know, like Folke Rabe and his kid brother, with Ray-Bans and a Jazzmaster, man. Doesn't that make sense? Isn't that what we need right now?" Yeah, a United State of White/Light sounds alllll right. To be released later in 2008. http://www.myspace.com/whitelightdrone http://www.jeremylemos.com/
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10.01.2008, 02:00 PM	#2
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,862	Black Acts CD Out Oct 28
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10.18.2008, 01:06 AM	#3
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,862	http://www.midheaven.com/artists/white.light.html Artist:WHITE / LIGHTTitle:Black Acts Format:CDCatalog Number:SLR034Price:$12.00Label:Smells LikeRelease Date:10/20/08****Black Acts* is the new one by Chicago drrrr-oh-oh-oh-oh-ne dudes White/Light. As in drone music. As in psychedelic, electric, amplified, instrumental, noisy, makes-your-family-crazy music. And not just your family; the families of everyone involved. Their self-titled CD from 2005 drove Matt Clark's mom nuts, but Jeremy Lemos's parents dug it. Lots of people dug their collaboration with Rob A.A. Lowe under the name White/Lichens (Holy Mountain, 2007) But this one? This one's dark, as in Dario Argento-style spooky. This one's gonna freak out Clark's mom and Lemos's parents, too. White/Light is a living-breathing collaboration between good friends. They get together in Lemos's studio, plug stuff in, and then listen to what happens. Guitars and pedals and amps and analog synths and more pedals and more amps, until the shit sounds like it's gonna melt. In the control room, they crack up at how beautifully hilarious and hilariously beautiful all that scuzz sounds. And then they do it again, with more pedals but fewer amps and maybe this time with an Indian Sruti box instead of a guitar and a bowed cymbal and some contact mics and tremolo and a shit-ton of reverb, and then back out through a spinning speaker and just one mic in the room facing the wrong way because Clark set it up this time. Oops. But any Tape-Op-obsessed college kid with a taste for Subotnik could do that stuff, right? Wrong. Black Acts is the result of noise-obsessed intuition incarnate. Lemos is a fantastic, musical engineer, and Clark's a wonderful musician. They truly love this stuff, whatever this stuff is; they're still trying to figure that one out. When the music doesn't make them both smile, they know it's not right, and they start over, which is why this one took two years to put together. But they finally did put this new one together because it was ready, because they nailed "it," whatever "it" is.
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10.28.2008, 01:41 PM	#4
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,862	Black Acts There is no better time to release a dark and ominous drone album then three days before Halloween. This should give you time to obtain a copy or find a digital download before the trick or treater's come knocking. You should set a speaker next to your door and have something loud, dark, and frightening blasting through the darkness. In fact, that maybe exactly what Chicago's White/Light or their labelSmells Like Records were thinking when they chose October 28th for the release of Black Acts. Two years in the making, Black Acts is a seven song journey through the thick and slow moving noise that Jeremy Lemos and Matt Clark love to create. What I like most about White/Light is that they don't take themselves too seriously. Don't get me wrong, they are talented musicians and engineers, but there is a certainly is a lighter side to this duo. They are always joking about how drone (or drrrr-oh-oh-oh-oh-ne as they put it) bothers their parents. They also have described their music as "beautifully hilarious and hilariously beautiful". I know beauty is subjective, but for me this album is not beautiful in the conventional sense of the word. However, if you were to look at it from a purely technical standpoint there may be an inherent beauty in the layers and effects and the overwhelming force of their sound. If you missed Lemos and Clark's performance earlier this month at The Empty Bottle you can download the entire set from their blog for free. - Jason Behrends
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11.11.2008, 01:04 AM	#5
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,862	http://www.aquariusrecords.org/ Last year these guys teamed up with Robert Lowe, aka Lichens, for a killer collab on Holy Mountain that left us floored. Black Acts harbors the same type of synthy, visual drones that come reeling out of White/Lichens, only this time around the White/Light boys weave their brand of bliss into more desolate territory. The Chicago duo manage to conjure an impressive brand of dark analog hypnosis, like waking up in the middle of the desert to a shimmering pyramid mirage made of sound and light. Even while parts of the record hint at the early minimalist legacies of dudes like La Monte Young and Henry Flint, there is a subtle buzzy edge to these songs that set them apart from the work of their predecessors. The record opens with creeping high end crunch that builds into a pulsing haze of all-encompassing droooone. More low-end, distorted swells of heavy bass kick in and, man, talk about headphone dreamland. These dudes really know how to rocket a listener into another dimension. As the record spins the duo cover all kinds of territory, cosmic feedback bleeps from the cockpit of a spaceship, orchestral beams of long-winded swells, single note droners that leave you dazed and entranced. A heap of bodies on the cover and a heap of guitars, pedals and amps on the back, the artwork is cryptic and elusive, perfect for a beautifully arranged record of analog dreamscapes for the mellow minded. MPEG Stream: "Dassin" MPEG Stream: "Discipline"
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