Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion

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In Monolithic Undertow, I trace the drone from those ancient beginnings through the 20th century, where it underpinned sounds of many divergent persuasions – not limited to the New York minimalist ley line that linked the Theatre of Eternal Music to the Velvet Underground; the vital influence of Ravi Shankar’s sitar drone on the ecstatic jazz of Alice Coltrane and the Beatles nascent psychedelic experiments; the punk axis that leads from the Stooges to Sonic Youth; and the physical metallic bass weight of Earth and Sunn O))). The Master Musicians of Joujouka, a group of Moroccan Sufi trance musicians from the foothills of the Rif mountains, make a joyous, hypnotic cacophony.

Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine is the centrepiece of Earth 2 – an imperious half-hour of sheer drone power. These experiences are akin to an audio portal – a sound Tardis to silence the hum and fizz of the unceasing inner voice.These experiences are akin to an audio portal - a sound Tardis to silence the hum and fizz of the unceasing inner voice. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit.

Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). Last year’s double album, Cantus, Descant, was her most ambitious record yet, featuring her vocals for the first time.Has anybody ever produced music of such beauty, emotional depth and sheer mesmeric density from such sparse elements? Immersion in hypnotic and repetitive sounds allows us to step outside of ourselves, be it chant, a 120dB beasting from Sunn O))), standing front of the system as Jah Shaka drops a fresh dub or going full headphone immersion with Hawkwind. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Third Man Books is dedicated to publishing the best in poetry, fiction, speculative fiction, SF/F, and non-fiction with the same diversity and award-winning design that are hallmarks of our partner company, Third Man Records. In short, the drone has bewitched for millennia, exhorting us to succumb to the joy of hypnotic immersion. Pairing the Bug (AKA Kevin Martin) and Justin Broadrick ( Godflesh, Jesu) on production with apocalyptic vocals from experimental musician and poet Moor Mother, Zonal is an exercise in unbearable tension and cavernous bass weight.