Mountain Ocean Sun have a CD out on Home Normal this week. They're a band/ group/ collective I've not heard of until now. After a quick rush of info I can see it features Warren Defever who is better known as that fella from His Name Is Alive. That band who have a weirdly obsessive bunch of people following them.... I'm sure some of them will traverse over to Mountain Ocean Sun to see what the crack is. Anyway you get one 64 minute track which is always a nightmare of a thing to review as we just don't have the time to sit and listen to the whole thing from start to end most of the time. It's starts off all droney and toney with some tribal sounding bells tinkling away in the background. It's kind of nice and mantric... in fact it's totally spacing me out! I reckon sitting and listening to the full thing in one go would take you to a most spiritual place, especially if you had a bag of chong and some nice sennheiser cans. I think that might be exactly what I do when I get home. There's plenty of variation in it as it more weird sounds appear, clattering happens, even more weird sounds drop in and out. It's one of the most interesting drone releases I've heard in ages and certainly one of the highlights of the label for me so far (which has already been consistently great!). Highly recommended!!
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Sound clips for Peace Conference by Mountain Ocean Sun: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Home Normal, homen005, £8.19.
Mountain Ocean Sun’s search for deep peace, heavy drones, and sound healing has found them jamming with Deerhoof in Detroit, starting an organic music society in the extreme tropical heat of the Matthaei Botancial Garden on new years day, and all the way back to their first performance at a 500 year-old buddhist temple in Osaka, Japan. Bowed strings, harmonium, indian shruti boxes, gongs, ghosts, sea shells and bells are the spirit tools that these elemental earth’s children bring to this sixty-four minute peace conference.
“Recorded on a mountain, in the woods, near a river, a lake, and the city, the summer air was heavy and we sweated a lot. When it was over I was blind. I was pummeled by the minimalixm” War (livonia michigan 2009)
Tracklist: 01: Peace Conference
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