Ezra Buchla / Todd Rush / Jacob Sunderlin - Four Rhizomes
Lost in the melodies of the world. Creativity from the consciousness, sounds from countless years of evolution. Four Rhizomes dances the light and heavy. Front porch pickings, diving into the bottomless depths of beguiling drone. The diversity is massive, but the feel of the composition is extremely acute. These are sounds provoking thought, like the twisted elbows of a live oak, the branch finally making settlement on the ground. This is the only way to support the massive weight a century of growth procures. The mysterious parts of Four Rhizomes... weight filled sonic experiments connected to listeners by age old acoustic sounds, all extending from old weathered mountains to time rich far away continents.
The three musicians working on this project are Ezra Buchla, Todd Rush and Jacob Sunderlin. They have laid down four lengthy tracks in total. The beginning track "under the evening moon the snail is stripped to the waist", plays trough field recordings, Appalachian raga, primitive guitar, ending with a banjo melody. This first track is the glue holding their following far reaching selections in context. The second foray titled "even with insects some can sing & some can't", jets out into mystified ambient string dancing, opening the mind to contemplation. There is even a lightly heard audible sample from the late night radio show Coast to Coast concerning the afterlife. The girth or bandwidth Ezra, Todd and Jacob are transmitting within is clearly heard on the masterful "a bath when you're born, a bath when you die, how stupid". A float in tepid still water, the conscious twinkling in and out of dream state, like hazy clouds blanketing the stars. Once inoculated, droning electronics worm their way deep within the core. The last track, "don't hit the fly rub the hands or the legs", is reminiscent of the earlier work by Stag Hare (Black Medicine Music). A menagerie of holistic sounds creating a therapeutic drone for the spirit.
Released on the Athens, Georgia label Cloud Recordings in an edition of one hundred. Copies are currently available through the label's bandcamp page. One note, Jacob Sunderlin recently crossed though Lost in a Sea of Sound on a composition by The High Sheriffs on the Garden Portal label.
The three musicians working on this project are Ezra Buchla, Todd Rush and Jacob Sunderlin. They have laid down four lengthy tracks in total. The beginning track "under the evening moon the snail is stripped to the waist", plays trough field recordings, Appalachian raga, primitive guitar, ending with a banjo melody. This first track is the glue holding their following far reaching selections in context. The second foray titled "even with insects some can sing & some can't", jets out into mystified ambient string dancing, opening the mind to contemplation. There is even a lightly heard audible sample from the late night radio show Coast to Coast concerning the afterlife. The girth or bandwidth Ezra, Todd and Jacob are transmitting within is clearly heard on the masterful "a bath when you're born, a bath when you die, how stupid". A float in tepid still water, the conscious twinkling in and out of dream state, like hazy clouds blanketing the stars. Once inoculated, droning electronics worm their way deep within the core. The last track, "don't hit the fly rub the hands or the legs", is reminiscent of the earlier work by Stag Hare (Black Medicine Music). A menagerie of holistic sounds creating a therapeutic drone for the spirit.
Released on the Athens, Georgia label Cloud Recordings in an edition of one hundred. Copies are currently available through the label's bandcamp page. One note, Jacob Sunderlin recently crossed though Lost in a Sea of Sound on a composition by The High Sheriffs on the Garden Portal label.
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