EOLIAN

Adam (Under Mountains) made an excellent documentary on the Portland noise scene, People Who Do Noise. The documentary features Under Mountains’ drummer, With Caro, pictured in the article above.

The black side bar says:

Favorite Portland artist:
Adam Cornelius: Rabbits. They are just circus-heavy, down-and-dirty, bellyache and grimace-inducing moonshine metal at its finest. Plus, instead of singing about misogyny or the devil, they sing about animals, planets, and emerging from the primordial ooze.

[October issue of XLR8R]

Copies of the DVD are available in our webstore here:

http://eolianrecords.com/buy

We heart Acre, Dronelord from the Northwest. And this, his very first foray into vinyl. And it’s a doozy, A single track, appropriately titled “Monolith”, taking up both sides of the 12″, sounding great at both 33 and 45, but of course we prefer 33 as it’s slower and lower and thus thicker and heavier.
Those familiar with Acre know just what he’s all about. Drone. Or DRONE.
Big, thick, endless stretches of sound, layers and overtones, seemingly simple but dense with texture and timbre.
“Monolith” is more of the same. Even more. It begins as a single tone, simple, minimal, and gradually builds and builds and builds until it is a subtly undulating stretch of singular sound. A deep pulsing synth drone, that seems to move and change shape, melodies and harmonies drift from within its nearly static mesmer, it’s all very subtle, but so gloriously thick and fuzzy and textural and yeah HEAVY. Slap on some headphones and crank this and you’re in for a sound induced headtrip of the highest order.
Not sure what else to say. For the drone obsessed this is ESSENTIAL, if you dug that Drone Drug record by the Skull Defekts we listed recently, if you love Phill Niblock, if you’re already the proud owner of some of the Acre cd-r’s, you know what you need to do.
Limited to 200 copies. How do we know? Because the artwork consists of the band name, the track title and the legend “Edition of 200″. We got a bunch, but even a bunch isn’t usually enough…