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<strong>CD</strong><br />
<strong>CD</strong>/LP<br />
Tracklist<br />
Tremble and Tear<br />
Fetal Horses<br />
C&O Canal<br />
Too Much Time<br />
D.I.A.L.O.<br />
Forest Knolls<br />
Oblivion<br />
Sunken Union Boat<br />
Romanian Names<br />
Carina Constellation<br />
Summer Stock<br />
Hard Times<br />
NYHETER UKE 13 - 2009<br />
SUNN O)))<br />
MONOLITHS & DIMENSIONS<br />
Southern Lord<br />
SUNN 100<br />
0808720010022<br />
JOHN VANDERSLICE<br />
ROMANIAN NAMES<br />
Dead Oceans<br />
DOC 026 / DOC 026LP<br />
0656605132624 / 0656605132617<br />
<strong>Tuba</strong> <strong>Records</strong> AS - Karl Johansgt. 6 - 0154 Oslo - Norway<br />
Tlf: +47 2201 0000 Fax: +47 2201 0001 tuba@tubarec.com www.tubarec.com<br />
FORHÅND 18. MAI<br />
SUNN O))) is proud to present their 7th studio album after 10 years of existence. Work that<br />
spanned a year and a half resulted in their most intense, mature work to date.<br />
Recorded at various points throughout 2007 & 2008 by Randall Dunn and Mell Dettmer , it<br />
features an array of other players including long-time collaborators Attila Csihar and Oren<br />
Ambarchi , and other luminaries such as Julian Priester (notable for work with Sun Ra and<br />
Herbie Hancock), and slow music God-father Dylan Carlson of Earth. In addition, arrangements<br />
were handled by noted composer<br />
Eyvind Kang who has worked with John Zorn, Bill Frisell and Mike Patton amongst others.<br />
Fleshing out the usual Sunn lineup is an upright bass trio, french & English horns, a harp<br />
and flute duo, piano, brass, reed & string ensembles. Despite this, this is not “SUNN with<br />
strings” or “metal meets<br />
orchestra” material, this is something altogether more exciting.<br />
Monoliths & Dimensions is practice in density, gravity &<br />
momentum. This description is only the tip of the iceburg.<br />
Tracklist<br />
Aghartha (17:34)<br />
Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] (09:43)<br />
Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) (10:02)<br />
Alice (16:21)<br />
FORHÅND 18. MAI<br />
The most noteworthy thing about JOHN VANDERSLICE’s new album is this: Romanian Names<br />
is the best record he’s made to date. The 12 songs represent a career-defining moment, a<br />
pitch-perfect collection written and recorded with the utmost care and attention. Vanderslice is<br />
certainly not the first artist to make such a leap several albums into a career – think GUIDED BY<br />
VOICES on Bee Thousand, SPOON’s Kill the Moonlight or OF MONTREAL’s Sunlandic Twins.<br />
JV’s newest, his first for Dead Oceans, makes that colossal step and separates itself from an<br />
already top-notch body of work. Throughout Romanian Names, JV sings with a newfound,<br />
unwavering confidence. He gets right at you with the sing-along choruses and punchy hooks<br />
of album opener Tremble and Tear and the poppy gem C&O Canal. The songs know when<br />
to patiently step back with subtle gestures and knock-out atmospherics like those on display<br />
in Forest Knolls and Summer Stock, and the album is glued together with the stripped-bare<br />
title track Romanian Names and the gorgeous ARTHUR RUSSELL-esque album closer Hard<br />
Times. Romanian Names is a symphony of sounds both subtle and lush, and as an album it<br />
provides the perfect backdrop for JV’s deft and fully-realized songwriting.<br />
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