Artist: Sound Séance Continuous Drone Ensemble
Songs: [two excerpts from an improvisation]
Recorded at Geary Lane ("Sound Séance I": Day 2), June 14, 2015.
Sound Séance Continuous Drone Ensemble - [excerpt 1]
Sound Séance Continuous Drone Ensemble - [excerpt 2]
Kudos to Invocation TO's Jay Pollard for making the Sound Séance about more than just the trio of big, nightly concerts. Afternoon events are a lot harder to get people out for, but some of the festival's best moments came in the daytimes. Rainy weather caused Sunday's plans to be scaled back (with an upstairs patio party scrapped) but the monumental dronezone in the venue's main area was more than enough.
With an ad hoc ensemble that mixed together members of projects like Knurl, Lorde Awesome, Isles Day, Sexy Merlin and Brigitte Bardon't, this was conceptualized as a five-hour continuous drone. With players deciding when to drop in and out, it actually ended up being closer to three-and-a-quarter hours when everything was said and done (said and droned?), but that was still plenty of time to lay back and zone out for a wide-ranging sonic soak. (The full lineup, which shifted throughout the duration of the piece was: Kristel Jax, Avery Strok, James Beardmore, Steve Benesko, Marcus Beiner, Alan Bloor, William Davison and Sean Dunal.)
Bonus! Here's some footage I shot when I headed outside for some fresh air:
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