Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Bear in Heaven have trapped echos, tremors, winds, and fading light. They've redefined time, and folded it. They've unbuttoned sound, and realigned it. Within four walls in Brooklyn, Jon Philpot,Adam Wills, Sadek Bazaara, and Joe Stickney mined the democracy of their collaboration, plus the endless hours of stream-of consciousness recorded documentation of rehearsals over the past years, to conceive the crystalline form of Beast Rest Forth Mouth, their second album, their exaltation.A seed planted in the Southern US years ago (all members hail from Georgia orAlabama), Bear In Heaven began as the musical arm of Jon Philpot in 1998. Time eventually brought in a slew of players, like rickety scaffolding, that grew the sound and guided the group to morph from a 6-to-5-to-4-piece. As a four-headed organism,Bear In Heaven has now found a sonic stride unlike any in their history. Freely acknowledging the importance of the number four, the album Beast Rest Forth Mouth (think "East West North South") was a conscious product of the fourcompass points, of the four makers, and of the inevitable confusion that manifests from that crossroad mentality: four directions could lead you anywhere and everywhere. It's the acknowledgement of what can go down at that convergence, at that dusty center, that drives Bear In Heaven and imbues the songs of Beast RestForth Mouth with something akin to both eternal peace and nervous urgency. The packaging and visuals for Beast Rest Forth Mouth continue in this tradition, the band collaborating with artist Laura Brothers to create the tactile doorway into the sonic swirl of the album.Feeding the Bear In Heaven process further is a collection of extra curricular activities. Jon Philpot recently collaborated with Roberto Lange on his HeladoNegro project (Roberto also had a hand in the final mix of Beast Rest Forth Mouth),as well as performed live with neighbors and label mates Stars Like Fleas. Adam Wills has played and toured with Jonathan Kane's February, Rhys Chatham's Guitar Trio, and started a new band with Joe Stickney called Garlok. Joe Stickney was oneof the drummers in the Boredoms-led 88 Boadrum last summer. Jon, Sadek, and Adam were three of the two hundred guitarists in Rhys Chatham's Crimson Grail.Deluxe vinyl, comes with Download..non returnable...like 70s pink floyd revisited by atlas sound!!

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