Stream: Circulatory System -- Signal Morning on NPR!
Cloud Recordings releases Circulatory System’s long-awaited second full-length, Signal Morning, today, September 8, 2009.
"It took nearly eight years to make, but Circulatory System's breathtakingly inventive new album, Signal Morning, justifies the wait." Robin Hilton -- NPR
Circulatory System has also embarked on a rare tour in support of Signal Morning:
09/07 - Chapel Hill, NC - Nightlight
09/08 - Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie
09/09 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
09/10 - Worcester, MA - The Grind at Clark University
09/11 - Purchase, NY - The Student Center at SUNY Purchase
09/12 - Monticello, NY - All Tomorrow's Parties
09/14 - Boston , MA - YMCA Theatre
09/15 - Geneseo, NY - Union Plaza at SUNY Geneseo
09/16 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
09/17 - Pontiac, MI - Pike Room
09/18 - Chicago, IL- Chopin Theatre
09/19 - Lexington, KY - Al's Bar
09/20 - Knoxville, TN - The Pilot Light
*All Dates are with Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t and Nesey Gallons as support, except ATP.
After The Olivia Tremor Control went on hiatus, songwriter W. Cullen Hart's first step was to create the Circulatory System. Featuring members of the former Olivias and other notable Elephant 6 luminaries, the Circulatory System's self-titled first album explored themes of the larger and the smaller, the here and the far away, and the now and the forever.
Seven and a half years in the making, culled from hours of recorded material sculpted in at least seven different studios, the new Circulatory System album is an absolutely stellar document of song and sound. Still concerned with matters of the inner/the outer, the incomprehensibly huge and the very, very small, Signal Morning is an imperative blast of kinetic motion. Composed by W. Cullen Hart while in the midst of battling Multiple Sclerosis within his own system, the new album finds Hart broadcasting his urgent pleas to the world(s) to evolve into a higher dimension, or for existing patterns to reveal themselves at peace within the natural order of the universe.
Featuring all the members of The Olivia Tremor Control, as well as Jeff Mangum and Julian Koster of Neutral Milk Hotel, Signal Morning has been eagerly anticipated since the release of the first Circulatory System record earlier this decade. Past and recent tours with the Elephant 6 Orchestra, the Instruments, Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't, the New Sound of Numbers, Need New Body, and the Sea & Cake have only served to enhance excitement for a new record from the group. New Circulatory System songs posted on the group’s myspace page in 2008 immediately received favorable attention from Pitchfork and National Public Radio.
Signal Morning features Will Hart and Bill Doss singing in harmony once again on the first song “Woodpecker Greeting Worker Ant”. Thick with textures, layered percussion, angular guitars, vibrating strings, woodwinds, and brass, Signal Morning represents a welcome addition to the musical landscape of this year and beyond.
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