Andrea Belfi/David Grubbs/Stefano Pilia - Onrushing Cloud

· ‘Onrushing Cloud’ is the first recording by the trio
of Andrea Belfi (drums, percussion, electronics),
David Grubbs (electric guitar, piano, voice), and
Stefano Pilia (electric guitar).

· Prior to meeting, all three had released recordings
on the excellent Swedish label Häpna, and were
already fans of one another’s work. In the spring
of 2009, Belfi and Pilia were invited by the Harlem
Studio Fellowship for a residence in New York, and
the three took this opportunity to get down to the
brass tacks of forming a power trio.

· ‘Onrushing Cloud’ is characterized by the eccentric,
fleeting symmetries of Grubbs’s and Pilia’s guitar
playing simultaneously mediated, punctuated, and
over and underscored by Belfi’s hybrid assemblage
and deeply personal vocabulary of electronics and
percussion.

· Although ultimately divided into five songs, this is
clearly a single start-to-finish skein. ‘Hermitage’
records the preliminary gestures of these
musicians’ first encounter, and the album steadily
builds towards the appearance of Grubbs’ vocals
on ‘Onrushing Cloud’, a tale of being stranded atop
a mountain and facing a rapidly approaching
storm.

Tracklisting:

Hermitage
Nitrate Out
City Rats On
Mountain Pass
Onrushing Cloud
Lightning Vault

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