Ateleia - Nightly

James Elliott is rapidly emerging as one of the most versatile voices in contemporary music.  He collaborates with Benjamin Curtis (ex-Secret Machines); his band School of Seven Bells is making a big splash in the rock realm (David Bowie recently invited them to perform at his High Line festival in New York); and as co-founder of the acclaimed Antiopic label, he has produced works by avant heavy-hitters including Alvin Lucier.  Now he presents Nightly, the latest work from his solo project, Ateleia.  In it, Elliott artfully evokes the humid krautrock of Popol Vuh within a whirlpool of lush minimalism, nimble electronica and digital psychedelia.  Nightly is a voyage up a primeval river of sound within a steaming jungle of invisible detail -- where the ultimate destination is forever out of reach. Previous collaborations with DAVID GRUBBS (GASTR DEL SOL), DAVID DANIELL (RHYS CHATHAM, JONATHAN KANE) "Hypnotic... The careful shape of Ateleia's formalist approach recalls Laika and Spiritualized, though Elliott clearly serves a louder, more aggressive muse." – Magnet. "Elliott's gaseous compositions are austere but not forbidding, strung out but not aimless. Despite the music's bracing astringency and cerebral economy of approach, there's just enough textural warmth and serendipitous, fleeting beauty to sustain an emotional as well as an intellectual response... Quietly breathtaking." - The Wire. "Church-bell sonorities stretch impossibly, buzzing like distant hornets; insistent tones swarm like a Terry Riley mantra. Striking a middle ground between Fennesz and the austere minimalism of Dion Workman and Rosy Parlane, Elliott carves out a niche all his own." - Time Out New York. Tracklisting 1.  In Inner Air (3:08), 2.Threaded (7:36), 3. Sphere and Locked (8:12), 4.Nightly (6:57)

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