WIND'S POEM

What if the sound of wind through trees could be translated into human words? What is it saying?

For Wind's Poem by Mount Eerie, Phil Elverum spent almost two years out behind the house, at the edge of the woods, listening into the night and finding these words. Songs of impermanence, dark change, destruction, temporary blossoming, mortality, and an immense river of air tearing through the world make up the 3rd offcial album by Mount Eerie.

A hundred kinds of distortion, oceans of synth, and clouds of bass are the elements these twelve songs are built from, with moments of clarity occasionally revealing soft harmonies (featuring Nick Krgovich from Vancouver's NO KIDS) reverently attempting to describe a dark mystery. The album holds a large debt to the music and world of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, as well as to some of the more innovative artists on the edges of ambient, colossal Black Metal.

Like these influences, Wind's Poem also drifts back and forth between a "dream world", where the wind screams about feeting existence, and reality, standing on the street, wide awake, looking at the hills outside town, remembering.

The album is well built, resting on the stone-solid production of Mount Eerie's only actual member, Phil Elverum, recorded at various locations around his hometown of Anacortes, Washington. In large walls of warm noise you can hear the wind, or is it flames?, or cymbals?, voice-like through the fog. And then all at once the clouds part and a song hangs in the air, soft and clear.

Songs of impermanence sung huge, distorted and warm.

Mount Eerie will be touring in a full band version all over the US in support of this album in the fall of 2009, featuring (among other things) 2 drummers, a gong player, and a wall of amps. They will come to Europe with a similar lineup in the spring 2010.
 

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TOURDATES

24.03.2010 Krakow (PL), Off Festival Club @ Alchemia - with No Kids
26.03.2010 Budapest (HU), Toldi Cinema - with No Kids
27.03.2010 Zagreb (HR), SC - with No Kids
28.03.2010 Wien (AT), Arena - with No Kids
29.03.2010 Prag (CZ), Klub 007 Strahov - with No Kids
30.03.2010 Nuernberg (DE), K4 - with No Kids
31.03.2010 Schorndorf (DE), Manufaktur - with No Kids
01.04.2010 Colmar (FR), Supersound Festival - with No Kids / Pterodactyl
02.04.2010 Paris (FR), Fleche D'Or - with No Kids / Pterodactyl
03.04.2010 Sheffield (UK), The Harley - with No Kids
04.04.2010 Glasgow (UK), NiceNSleazy - with No Kids
05.04.2010 Manchester (UK), Ruby Lounge - with No Kids
06.04.2010 London (UK), Scala - with No Kids
07.04.2010 Brighton (UK), The Freebutt - with No Kids
08.04.2010 Kortrijk (BE), De Kreun - with No Kids
09.04.2010 Groningen (NL), Vera - with No Kids
10.04.2010 Rotterdam (NL), Motel Mozaique Festival
11.04.2010 Brussels (BE), Domino Festival
12.04.2010 Koeln (DE), Subway - with No Kids
13.04.2010 Berlin (DE), Festsaal Kreuzberg - with No Kids
14.04.2010 Gothenburg (SE), Kulturhamnen - with No Kids
16.04.2010 Bergen (NO), Landmark - with No Kids
17.04.2010 Oslo (NO), Bla - with No Kids
18.04.2010 Copenhagen (DK), Loppen - with No Kids
19.04.2010 Leipzig (DE), UT Connewitz - with No Kids