BLOG ARCHIVE // NOVEMBER 2011

29.11.11
A-SUN AMISSA vs FOXY DIGITALIS

Number 13 in Hibernate’s beautifully presented Postcard Series, Beneath The Heavy Tides is essentially a collaboration between two Glissando members, Richard Knox and Angela Chan, plus Owen Pegg.

Richard Knox has played with Adam Wiltzie in the past (as part of Sleepingdog‘s live set-up), and it’s Stars Of The Lid’s sound that A-Sun Amissa take here and inject with a sense of dread through the use of various clanks, echoes and hollows.  “Hexe” evolves gradually around a pitch dark series of  drones that weave and wrap around one another like rival helicoid dragon necks and eventually loom out of the cacophony of industrial percussion (think old pipes, scraped sheet metal and broke-down factory run-amoks…) to become the most prevalent element before succumbing to what sounds like a great slice of sharp steel scything slowly across cold concrete.  It’s a gripping, evocative piece of work filled with foreboding and menace.

“Promise Of The Loss Of Self,” the short track that closes this brief foray into the ambient netherworld, is a more straightforward affair.  The strings scratch and squeak like twinges of shooting pain, the drone is a tired one and it limps home sadly like a beast fatally injured in the infernal dust-up that came before.  Loss of self now, you think, is the likely and preferable outcome…

http://www.foxydigitalis.com/foxyd/?p=21512

27.11.11
We had a great A-Sun Amissa show in Leeds on Friday evening, lovely atmosphere and happy to support our dear friends Tomorrow We Sail on their launch party for their new single 'The White Rose'. It's out on Monday and you can get a copy here.

The A-Sun Amissa EP 'Beneath the Heavy Tides' is almost sold out now. Stashed Goods just sold their last one - Normans still have it listed in stock on their site and there are a few left from our tour stock on the Gizeh Store too.

25.11.11
The 'Silent Bells' Tour in pictures.