Eclectic Duo Currently Embarked On East Coast Tour
Following a multitude of releases on labels including At A
Loss, Public Guilt and Underradar, in addition to self-released recordings,
Maryland’s ultra-eclectic transcendental/drone rock unit DARSOMBRA have
signed with Germany’s Exile On Mainstream for the release of their new
full-length album, Climax Community.
Set for North American release on October 16th, the three
tracks on Climax Community traverse forty five minutes of DARSOMBRA’s
unique, slow-building, organic transcendental rock, and explore realms of the
musical cosmos not present on their previous releases.
In preparation for the release of Climax Community, DARSOMBRA have
constructed a trailer showcasing both the expansive audio and visual aspects of
the album. View the trailer, cover art and more AT THIS LOCATION.
Climax Community Track Listing:
1. Roaming The Periphery
2. Green
3. Thunder Thighs
DARSOMBRA are currently embarked on an East
Coast U.S. tour, with plans of hitting Europe in October as well in support of
the release of the new album. More tours and live actions will be confirmed and
announced in the coming weeks.
DARSOMBRA East Coast tour [remaining dates]:
8/10/2012 La Sala at Cantina Royal - Brooklyn, NY w/
Creeplings, Millions, C. Spencer Yeh
8/11/2012 Beaumont Where?house - Philadelphia, PA w/ Wally, Tapeworm, Hulk Smash
8/12/2012 Blue Nile - Harrisonburg, VA w/ Degollado
8/11/2012 Beaumont Where?house - Philadelphia, PA w/ Wally, Tapeworm, Hulk Smash
8/12/2012 Blue Nile - Harrisonburg, VA w/ Degollado
If we can invent the term “transcendental rock”, then let’s
apply it to DARSOMBRA, Brian Daniloski and Ann Everton’s
audiovisual music project. Daniloski, a veteran of heavier, sludgier,
grittier rock bands such as Meatjack and Trephine, controls the sound of DARSOMBRA,
alternating between mammoth vocal swells and soundscapes and searing guitar
riffs, leads, loops, and samples. Take one part metal, one part
psychedelic rock, one part experimental, and a dash of prog and krautrock, and
you begin to have an idea why DARSOMBRA, as music, needs its own
genre. But there is more than just Daniloski’s sonic world at play here as
video artist Everton takes his work to the next level by bringing her DARSOMBRA-induced
visions to the stage through her kinetic psychotropic video projections,
creating a constantly shifting backdrop to Daniloski’s live performances.
Climax Community, DARSOMBRA’s 2012
release on Exile on Mainstream Records, brings Daniloski’s familiar epic
arrangements, with a different feel of dynamics and speed than his previous
efforts – but don’t be mislead: with three songs and clocking in at forty-five
minutes, this is a record to dive into and exist within. The first track,
“Roaming the Periphery” is a twenty-three-minute opus of vast vocal swells and
guitar pilgrimages, a full meal in itself, leaving the listener stimulated and
soothed – this sort of psychedelic experience doesn’t recreate the effects of
drugs; the music is the drug. “Roaming the Periphery” induces in a perfect
state for absorbing the following acoustic track, “Green”, and the final,
18-minute, mind-melting, wordlessly-storytelling, and furious-in-5/4 track,
“Thunder Thighs”. The inclusion of “Green”, the short, earthy, acoustic
piece between the two time-giants of the record, is a wise one: it reminds the
listener that this isn’t the great mountain-monster from Fantasia’s “Night on
Bald Mountain” creating these aural sagas – but rather, a man with a practice,
on his guitar, everyday, from now to the horizon.
A climax community is “a biological community of plants and
animals which, through the process of ecological succession — the development
of vegetation in an area over time — has reached a steady state,” says good old
Wikipedia. Climax Community is a record by DARSOMBRA,
built and hewn from time, practice, and re-arrangement of one’s life for the
love of creative journey to other planets through music.
Both LP and CD versions of Climax Community will
be released with a direct link to the visual part of this project which shall
be watched while listening to the album.
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