Visitations, by We Mythical Kings

Visitations

by We Mythical Kings

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Visitations is the debut album from We Mythical Kings, a duo committed to atomizing the sonic potential of experimental electronics, magnetic recording techniques and free-improvisation. The 16 tracks reveal fragmented analogue synthesizer protractions, fathomless oceans of black drone and snatched moments of prepared guitar serenity, all informed by the landscape in which the album was conceived. Initial sessions for the album took place in a remote cottage on the Isle of Mull, off the west coast of Scotland. Over the course of six days of intense recording, several hours of freeform improvisations were committed to tape. Some were guided by visual scores, others by pre- determined rules.

Completely free from notions of structure and limitation – and created literally hundreds of miles away from their regular musical worlds – these embryonic recordings were the sound of two artists surgically examining their own practice and seeking new modes of expression through their chosen instruments. Guitar strings were tightened and pulled to breaking point, effects pedals were hot-wired and hacked, oscillators and filters were overdriven beyond their limits. The vast well of material was then revisited several months later and through a process of re-sampling, re- configuring and re-contextualising, the 16 tracks on this disc took shape.

The track titles are taken from The Peregrine (1967) by J.A. Baker, a poetic and personal study of the bird by an Essex- based writer. The book underwent something of a rediscovery after his death and can be seen as reinvigorating the interest in nature writing by people such as Robert Macfarlane and Roger Deakin.

PRESS:

JOHN DORAN (THE QUIETUS): "I like this."
TEXTURA: "A restless, shape-shifting whole with fleeting moments of serenity alternating with combustible vignettes abstract expressionistic character."
MUSIC WON'T SAVE YOU: "A frenzy of modulations, cosmic debris and dark drone."
DELUSIONS OF ADEQUACY: "A lost post-apocalypse-meets-alien-invasion film score. Bleak yet transfixing."
Airplay on STUART MACONIE'S FREAKIER ZONE (BBC 6MUSIC)

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released November 20, 2015

Raz Ullah - synths and effects. Raz is guest lecturer in Sound Synthesis at Abertay University's Institute of Arts, Media & Computer Games. He also writes and records for Art of the Memory Palace (Static Caravan Recordings).
Peter Philipson – guitars and effects. LCR released his Peaks solo album in 2014 (under his P.J. Philipson alias), as played on BBC 6Music by Stuart Maconie and Gideon Coe.

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