Monoliths & Dimensions
SUN O)))
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Monoliths & Dimensions is the seventh studio album by drone doom band Sunn O))). The album was created and recorded over a period of 2 years and features the collaborations of composer Eyvind Kang, Australian guitar player Oren Ambarchi, Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar, Dylan Carlson from the drone band Earth, and trombonists Julian Priester and Stuart Dempster. There's also an upright bass trio, French and English horns, harp and flute duo, piano, brass, reed and strings ensembles, and a Viennese woman's choir led by Persian vocal savant Jessika Kenney.
However, the band has expressed that:
“The album is not "SUNN O))) with strings" or "metal meets orchestra" material. The band took an approach concentrating on more of allusion toward the timbre of feedback and the instruments involved, so the piece is really illusory, beautiful and not entirely linear, stating that the end product is "the most musical piece we’ve done, and also the heaviest, powerful and most abstract set of chords we’ve laid to tape". ”
The cover art is "out-of-round X" done by Richard Serra in 1999.
Track listing
- "Aghartha" - 17:34
- Attila Csihar: voices
- Greg Anderson: electric bass guitar
- Stephen O'Malley: electric guitar
- Oren Ambarchi: electric guitar effects & oscillator
- Tim Smollens: double bass
- Kieth Lowe: double bass
- Stuart Dempster: dung chen, conch shell
- Steve Moore: dung chen, conch shell
- Julian Priester: conch shell
- Timb Harris: violin
- Eyvind Kang: viola
- Eric Walton: piano
- Mell Dettmer: hydrophone
- Taina Karr: english horn
- Hans Teuber: clarinet
- Josiah Boothby: french horn
- "Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért]" - 9:43
- Attila Csihar: voices
- Greg Anderson, Stephen O'Malley, Dylan Carlson, Oren Ambarchi: electric guitar
- Steve Moore: trombone & organ
- Cuong Vu: trumpet
- Jessika Kenney: lead soprano/alto
- Jutta Sierlinger, Angela Kiemayer, Verena Bodem, Katharina Einsiedl, Stephanie Pfeffer, Lorna Doring: choir
- Eyvind Kang: viola
- Rex Ritter: KORG MS20
- Mell Dettmer: tubular bells
- "Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia)" - 10:02
- Attila Csihar: voices
- Greg Anderson: electric bass guitar, electric guitar
- Stephen O'Malley: electric guitar
- Oren Ambarchi: electric guitar, gong & wolf log
- Steve Moore: trombone, KORG MS20, Roland Juno
- Tony Moore: trumpet
- William Herzog: electric tamboura
- Brad Mowen: concert bass drum, percussion
- Joe Preston, Daniel Menche, William Herzog, Brad Mowen: man choir
- Rex Ritter: Moog Voyager
- "Alice" - 16:21
- Greg Anderson: electric bass guitar
- Stephen O'Malley: electric guitar
- Oren Ambarchi: electric guitar, motorized cymbal, oscillator
- Moriah Nells, Tim Smollen, Kieth Lowe: double bass
- Julian Priester, Stuart Dempster, Steve Moore: trombone
- Josiah Boothby: french horn
- Taina Karr: oboe & english horn
- Hans Teuber: clarinet, bass clarinet, alto flute
- Melissa Walsh: harp
- Timb Harris: violin
- Eyvind Kang: viola
Personnel
- Stephen O'Malley
- Greg Anderson
- Eyvind Kang
- Oren Ambarchi
- Attila Csihar
- Dylan Carlson
- Steve Moore
- Julian Priester
- Stuart Dempster
- Jessika Kenney
- Randall Dunn - Recording and Mixing
- Mell Dettmer - Recording and Mixing
- Richard Serra - Cover
Release history
| Region | Date | Label |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | May 18, 2009 | Southern Lord |
| North America | May 26, 2009 | Southern Lord |
| Asia and Australia | TBA | Southern Lord |
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