Description:	Hand made corrugated card limited CD EP on Loom
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Loom Recordings
	Price:	£4.29
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4
...according to our Brian on 31 August 2007.

'Condor & River' is the title of another highly limited CD on Loom by Her Name is Calla. Once again, the packaging is sumptious, clearly influenced by the progressive CD label Mort Aux Vaches in it's quest for the best use of cardboard ever. 250 of these buggers and if you're hankering for how Tarentel once sounded then this 2 track epic (one long, one very short track) should satisfy you post rock kids. Yes there's Explosions ITS to take into consideration but the production & occasional burst of distortion reminds me of bands like Dreamend. It's how this music should sound. Like the bastard speakers are melting & a huge pissed off pheonix is attacking your fridge in it's panic to get outta yer hovel & into the stars. Yes. This lot have sat there and taken it all in and spat a bit of attitude & a lot of atmosphere into an oft wilting genre. There's even some vocals on there which kinda break up the 16 min + leader nicely. However his voice does make me think a little of Pink Floyd. Epic as you like.

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What their label says...

CONDOR AND RIVER EP REVIEWS:

DROWNED IN SOUND

Rarely has a piece of music actually sounded so idyllic for a setting far beyond your wildest imagination...

...Whatever the inspiration for this, it sure as hell makes listening to straightforward three-minute trad-pop songs impossible afterwards, and simply begs the question: why can't all artists be as ambitiously prophetic as this?

Dom Gourlay 8/10

Die Shellsuit, Die!

Listening to it is almost like watching a film or reading a book, although there are few words the music ebbs and flows, and repeated motifs work almost like characters in a story. Track one is the bulk of the tale, and track two is almost like an epilogue, much shorter but powerful in its own right. I keep thinking I'm giving too many high review scores, but there is absolutely nothing I would want to change about this release. From the packaging right through to the very last note it's stunning, at once sinister and moving. Highly recommended.

10/10

Will Slater

Tasty Fanzine

The whole effect is entirely mesmerising and haunting, particularly after the deliberately soporific introduction. The EP does not pass out in an equally anonymous manner, instead employing a wall of electronic violence...

The Silent Ballet

This UK experimental prog band grasps our attention by carrying us up and down and back and forth through the musical plane, blooming into a zen oasis then exploding in anger. 7/10

Diana Sitaru

Subba Cultcha

This is but part of a new opus by this post-rock troupe. Her Name Is Calla have provided us a snippet of The Quiet Lamb and within two tracks and eighteen minutes of music, they leave a delectable trail of post-rock pick’n’mix for us to savour and digest....The track swelters, bellows and symphonises hurt, loss and, somehow, hope all at the same time. It’s a track to get lost in... 5/5

Brad Barrett

Sandman Magazine

Remember Her Name Is Calla. Though they resemble four med students and their set is three songs long, their performance is mesmerising. Tom’s voice caresses the microphone, fragile as cobweb, but is stronger than ten-point steel and holds it’s own against Mussorgskian trombones, speedcore drums and swooping guitar statements that would be cheesy if they weren’t so epic. With aspects of Floyd, Godspeed, Radiohead and Peter Gabriel, ‘Condor and River’ has to be heard to be believed. My God, but they’re good

LOSING TODAY

Her Name is Calla ‘Condor and River’ (Loom). No strangers to these missives, previous visitations by Leicester’s Her Name is Calla have enthralled with their overwhelming sense of darkly bruised beauty, if we were to compare them we’d say in our humbled opinion that they are the dark half of Hush the Many - some times frail, fragile and unsettlingly eerie at others turbulent, crushing as though surfing the crest and orchestrating at will some unseen oncoming storm.

’Condor and River’ provides for a glowing and deeply rewarding spectacle and serves as warning as to the ensembles shift in song craft development, perspective and texture. Now expanded to a quartet ’Condor’ finds Her Name is Calla comfortably as one in their song craft skin.