RELEASED – MOONWOOD – The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the Strength of the Wolf is the Pack

MOONWOOD – The Strength of the Wolf is the Pack, and the Strength of the Pack is the Wolf

Buy Now: CD – 13 tracks/48 mins. Atmospheric psychexotica. Pocket sleeve in translucent red lino block printed envelope w/ 3-pack of pin back buttons.

From the meditative opener, “So The Darkness Shall Be The Light, And The Stillness Be The Dancing” to the rambling opium den epic of “Where The Flowers Blossom Red”, the album smoulders with Javanese go-go gamelan gongs, smoky Cambodian funk, wicked Celtic ragas, deep Saharan blues, simmering Sufi surf and spacedout Indian soul. A heady fusion for heady times (times like, say, 1972 or, possibly, 1912). RIYL: Six Organs, Dengue Fever, Robbie Basho

1. So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be the dancing 4:47
2. The Palace of Malice 3:20
3. Phnom Penthouse 2:58
4. Invite me to stare into the darkness 3:12
5. Grafitti Blossoms 3:16
6. Geedoodles, it’s Captain Judas! 2:47
7. Hyaenas know the dead are safer meat than the even weakest living treat 3:21
8. It takes a child to raze a village 2:21
9. The twilight swallows the thicket 2:44
10. Fireflies trapped in a cracked pint jar 3:26
11. Woodwose walks wicked and wild 2:22
12. And the snake shall be your watchman 3:32
13. Where the flowers blossom red 10:18

Also available in a convenient digital format at BANDCAMP.

Watch the video for Grafitti Blossoms (track 5).

Moonwood Wolf Pack Pin Pack

Next week we’re releasing MOONWOOD‘s new 13-track album The Strength Of The Pack Is The Wolf, And The Strength Of The Wolf Is The Pack on CD and digital. The CD will come in deluxe lino-block printed translucent envelope which will also contain this attractive 3-pack of pins!

MOONWOOD playing at NXNWyrd

Saturday June 16: Saturday Afternoon Mellow + Sean Nicholas Savage + Guests

Date: Saturday June 16, 2012

Location: Infinite Library (Upper Floor – 664 Queen Street West)
Doors: 3:30pm
Price: $7 door. / $0 with festival pass.
Set-Times:

16:00 :: New Age music mellowness
18:00 :: TOPS
19:00 :: Sean Nicholas Savage
20:00 :: Doom Tickler
21:00 :: Moonwood

More info HERE.

New Moonwood and BABEL websites

Both Moonwood and BABEL have new web presences on the web. They can be found at the links in the first sentence of this post.

Both sites feature the usual updates about what Moonwood and BABEL are up to (news tracks, videos, live dates, etc) but additionally the Moonwood site now houses the “Live Rehearsals” series (which used to be posted here) and the BABEL site features an ongoing radio/tape/media collage project called TRANZMIT.

Moonwood also has a new CBC Music page.

Two new Moonwood Videos

“Trans Lunar Express 1″ from Trans Lunar Express

“Graffiti Blossoms” from the upcoming album The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf and the Strength of the Wolf is the Pack

Espvall/Jakobsons/Szelag: Improvisations for Strings and Electronics

Track #2: Fissure

CD. 5 tracks / 43:13 mins. Multi-layered handmade transparent outer-sleeve, lino-block printed envelope. Limited edition of 100.

BUY NOW! North America: $10 CAD + $2 CAD shipping

BUY NOW! Rest of World: $10 CAD $4 CAD shipping

On the aptly titled Improvisations for Strings and Electronics, Marielle Jakobsons and Agnes Szelag (Myrmyr) team up with cellist Helena Espvall (of Espers) on a series of, you guessed it, improvisations for strings and electronics. Recorded in Oakland, CA, Jakobsons and Szelag created graphic scores for the occasion.

A little while ago Agnes asked me which bands I’d compare this album to. I couldn’t think of a single one. Not even the more classically oriented works of someone like Godspeed! You Black Emperor really come close.

What did immediately leap to mind were the string quartets of contemporary composers Gloria Coates, Morton Feldman, Per Nørgård, and Henryk Górecki. As well, some of the more challenging, discordant and visceral works of Arvo Pärt bear a similarity to the sinuous, winding melodies and stunning tonal landscape created here.

Ethereal and rapturous beauty tempered with sinister, creeping danger looming ominously in the shadows.

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Espvall/Jakobsons/Szelag sneak peek

Here’s a preview of the music and sneak peek at the deluxe artwork for the Espvall/Jakobsons/Szelag CD we’re very excited to be releasing on Valentine’s Day.

Improvisations for Strings and Electronics is a spellbinding collaboration between Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons of the experimental duo Myrmyr and Helena Espvall of Espers.

Track #2: Fissure

Deluxe limited edition. Multi-layed handmade transparent outer-sleeve, lino-block printed envelope. Stay tuned!

MOONWOOD: Trans Lunar Express (Digital EP)

With Trans Lunar Express, psychedelic exotica/freak-folksters Moonwood take a cosmic detour to bring you three kosmische jams of motorik krautrock for driving across the lunar landscape. This 3-track digital-only EP is a stellar deal at the cosmically low price of $1.99 earth credits!

Split tape on two best of 2011 lists

Our split tape with Theo Angell and Moonwood made it onto the best of 2011 lists of two blogs.

Hippie Cult says of the release in their Favorite Tapes of 2011 post:

“Theo Angell’s side contains an entire cannon of American folk and story telling warped through his wizard beard. Moonwood mixes fuzzy reverb from a desert with mystic percussion and spiritual chimes. If you ever consider going on a vision quest, trying to start a New Church of Man, I suggest you take this with you.“

And Dying For Bad Music listed the Moonwood side specifically at #9 in their top 23 records of 2011.

 

Why so cold in your heart?

Moonwood is very pleased to announce their inclusion on the Why So Cold In Your (he)Art compilation by Jeunesse Cosmique.

The exclusive track is called “Second Hand Coat” and was recorded specially for this project.

Download the whole 20 track album for free here.

Physical copies available too from the same link.