Visions Wide EP - NARWHAL - OUT 09/09/11 on STATION 55

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NARWHAL
Visions Wide EP
Station 55 Records (S55009)

1. Galapagos
2. Whirling Ceremony
3. Axum Sun [feat. Highlife]
4. Blind Animals Have Visions Too

Release Date: 09/09/11
Format: high quality digital download at all good online download stores

Narwhal | Whirling Ceremony from No-Domain on Vimeo.

All sounds created, played, recorded and mixed by NARWHAL
except guitars on "Axum Sun" by Highlife
Mastered by Dave Cooley (Elysian Masters)
Artwork by Michael Swaney & Nelson "Junior" Martinez

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"Visions Wide EP" is the first ever release by NARWHAL - the Barcelona based experimental duo formed by Simon Williams (Jahbitat / Sunny Graves / Night of the Brain) and Cristian Subirà (Summer Recreation Camp / Coconot). Constructed from various improvisations and live takes recorded during the summer of 2010 and later edited, produced and partly-mixed in Simon's room, its four tracks drift on somewhat disparate currents yet also bring together and call to the surface their equal loves for sonic density and ambient space, the analog and the digital, the cosmic and the concrete. One of these tracks ("Axum Sun") features the cascading guitars of one Douglas Shaw aka Highlife (White Magic / Gang Gang Dance) and, along with the others, evidences the duo's obsessions with many forms of ambient music, techno, krautrock, noise, psychedelic pop, electronics, African music, beats, dance music, drones, minimalism and repetition. Through the use of drums, percussion, samplers, guitars, electric bass, amps, keyboards, synthesizers, oscillators, a bunch of effects pedals, computers and voices, what began as a totally improvised adventure has now taken shape and found a home on Cristian Vogel's Station 55 imprint... "Visions Wide EP" provides a snapshot of two years of live experimentation and sonic searching, a search that is steadily paving a more concrete path and that will eventually materialize in the form of their first LP, planned for the end of 2011.

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