Sun Araw = Cameron Stallones and C or D, iyo, iyp

okay, i'm starting this thread because i find myself liking sun araw and their stallones more than almost anything going on in drugs music these days, up there with blues control, black dice, oneida, etc. in the present moment, i'm listening to the beach head LP, and it is sweeping me away on waves of pure fresh grain. has triangles and everything, but is not of this moment more than any other. everybody is all on the heavy deeds LP, which sounds like magic lantern, kinda, all rocked out and "heavy psych", but i like the more drifty/dreamy shit like this guy and on patrol the best. burn one. can anyone tell me why this is not the best shit ever to have on atm, or whatever else i should be looking for if i happen to be feeling it.

i dunno - like the last week for me has been all about Heavy Deeds and Robert Ashley

so, i guess in some way - another type of "drifty/dreamy shit" - Robert Ashley's "Private Parts"

deeds!

Robert Ashley (born March 28, 1930), is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.

will investigate, because that sounds amazing

private parts is hopefully based on the awesome paul bartel movie from 1972

Robert Ashley has done some great stuff (some now out of print) and you should definitely investigate.

There's a bunch of Robert Ashley talk on one of the Tortoise threads.

what's the connection?

there's also a whole thread devoted to quoting Private Parts lyrics

I forget what the connection is, but it might have been them covering one of his "songs."

have also this week been obsessed by john adams' "grand pianola music", especially part the last, "on the dominant divide." no clear relation to stallones, tho.

I need to find a copy of that split with Predator Vision.

me too! i ain't even got boat trip yet...

I was lucky enough to find that in the clearance isle at sonic boom earlier this year.

It's already Nov 20? I've been listening to Born in the USA a lot. Cameron Stallone Stallones? is a funny guy, all "heavy deeds" and it's "the cherry, the diddley, the wonder."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8jDcZhlT2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ltDyujqtm4

High Wolf are kind of similar in the tropical/psychedelic sounds. I like what few releases I've heard from them. the Gabon cs is particularly great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc0pdRLwFOc

http://www.myspace.com/highwolfmusic/music/songs/Astro-Black,-Speak-To-Me!-56200295

Actually, if you go to this label site and go to the bottom, you can download the Gabon cs for free.
http://kaugummi.fr/wingedsunrecords/

"high wolf" for pity's sake [picardfacepalm.jpg], but loving "diego", so thanks, van smack! nice that they make their stuff so easily available for free, too. downloading the gabon cs and incapulco cdr...

i wanna know who wrote this press blurb:

Sun Araw’s 2008 LP Beach Head has been remastered and reissued on Sun Araw’s own label Sun Ark Records. The new version of Beach Head is available on vinyl now.

For the uninitiated, Sun Araw is Los Angeles-based guitarist Cameron Stallones. Sun Araw originally issued a limited pressing of Beach Head in 2008 -- a release of sunburnt affection for a place that has since submerged: a coastal constellation of friends and energies that still slosh and burn through dimensions just above our perceptual apparatus. These are the coordinates, should you want to go: “Thoughts Are Bells” opens in séance before easing back into full Florian blossom. “Horse Steppin’” is a love song to Neil Young’s six-string gateway: sunblushed and indulgent, persistently burning. “Beams” builds a bridge between Marconi Notaro and Long Beach, and throws an underwater groove party in the midst. “Bridal Fully” pushes the sun under the horizon with a mountain of vocals; unfailing love glowing at its center: a marriage song. As the inaugural release on Sun Ark Records, Beach Head has been re-mastered at the legendary Dubplates & Mastering in Germany, and has been imprinted onto 180 gram vinyl, these tunes have never sounded this good. The LP comes correct with the original artwork, including an 11 x 11 full color insert.

More on Sun Araw:

“Listening to Sun Araw is like taking a magic carpet ride through a humid swamp land, surfing over the Pacific and then safely landing on some sand dunes in the middle of the desert.” The Fader

“If you shut your lids and listen hard enough, you can hear the faint hints of his idols: the cosmic slop of Funkadelic, the ferocious locomotion of Fela Kuti, the stoned shape-shifting of Sun Ra, obscure Swedish psych-rock and the sorcerer minimalism of Terry Riley.” Los Angeles Times

“Sun Araw sound a bit like a lava lamp. Or like minute 45 of "Dark Star". Or maybe Fela Kuti slowed down to a crawl, rolled out, and spread into infinity.” Pitchfork

plus, how exciting is it that a band that has been around for, like, three days re-releases an album that came out two days ago?

plus, the whole beach thing. where will it end? is beaches & canyons to blame?

up there with blues control, black dice, oneida, etc.

ehhhhhh not quite. but I do like this stuff

everybody is all on the heavy deeds LP, which sounds like magic lantern, kinda, all rocked out and "heavy psych", but i like the more drifty/dreamy shit like this guy and on patrol the best.

yeah agreed. Off Duty, On Patrol, Boat Trip are off in their own world, Heavy Deeds I feel like I've heard it before but done better (e.g. Sunburned Hand of the Man at their best)

plus, how exciting is it that a band that has been around for, like, three days re-releases an album that came out two days ago?

probably on made 10 copies to begin with. the 11th guy who wanted one is pretty psyched rt abt now

that was a ridiculousness of limited pressings zing, not a Sun Araw has a tiny audience zing

Cameron put a cover of Neil Young's "Thrasher" on his website for download.
http://www.sunaraw.com/main.html

Ran into him at the Jandek show on Saturday! Not too surprising.

Just a note to contenderizer.. High Wolf is playing at Cairo tomorrow night. I'm going to try to make it (that is, if my wife will let me go)
http://cairocollection.blogspot.com/2011/01/high-wolfhair-and-space-museummegabats.html

pdx on sunday too

Looks like two shows in portland. I'd like to see the one with Planton Wat

sunday one is at the house here with p dope local noise kids Eye Myths, suggest drive

berkeley on the 19th

The new Houston Abstros 7" is really good. The b side is a cool Teenage Fanclub cover.

YESSSSS

ANCIENT ROMANS is the fifth full-length album from SUN ARAW

Primal Splendour, who sends out innumerable rays, not perceptible by the senses, but collectively thinkable

Heartfelt and marbled, this album is documentation of the slow exit (the triumphal entry): moving the camera back 8 stages along the circumference of the circle to the point where the obverse is reverse, in order to celebrate the building of an edifice and then walk away from it in wisdom, gaining freedom from it.

ANCIENT ROMANS will be available as a 2xLP on white vinyl in a gatefold jacket with an accompanying art book, as well as on CD.

available on SUN ARK RECORDS through Drag City, August 23rd

fuck yah! didn't know this was coming.

Cool! Be interesting to see whether he has added anything new to the mix.

This is great news. Really looking forward for this.

I've been expecting a new full length release about every four months from this guy. I'd be surprised if he slowed down.

full stream of Ancient Romans on soundcloud

http://alteredzones.com/posts/1789/zoned-sun-araw-ancient-romans/

missed his comic con show because i was in MN :-(

thx for link tho

he's playing at PS1 Warm Up in Queens on the 27th but I don't think I can go

album is sounding good though, I'm feeling this sax on "Fit for Caesar"

Yeah, v. good album, review's up on the AMG I believe.

weird, now it looks like they have cut it down to just 2 tracks. well I got one listen in, except for the final 15-minute one.

Ancient Romans is great!

From where I get ALL of my music news, Altered Zones:

Cameron: Well, the big one at the moment is this record I just made with The Congos. My friend Ged [M. Geddes Gengras] and I went down to Jamaica and made an album. We recorded all the music and The Congos wrote and sang the lyrics. It was really an incredible experience. We did a lot of recording down there, and we're working on bringing out 12" singles of a lot of damaged dancehall tracks we tracked with local toasters. Right now that's a pretty full collaborative plate. I'm very interested in collaboration when the situation is right and the proper energy is there.

Anyone else heard the "Night Gallery" collab with Eternal Tapestry yet? Pretty nice, but if it was an old jazz record it would be classified as a mere blowing date. The music tilts more to the E Tap side of things, for those wondering.

Ancient Romans is taking awhile to settle in with me. 80 minutes? Some of us have to work for a living, chief.

ancient romans is what soul junk never quite achieved: sun ra for wasters

Holy SHit @ this track with the Congos:

http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/frkwys09-happy-song

dope

^

I love this Duppy Gun stuff he's done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPkJCUMQQE

I'm excited to hear the rest of that Congos collaboration. Who's the other dude who he did it with?

Mark Geddes Gengras is also the other guy in Duppy Gun Productions, apart from that I don't know much about him.

Interview with Cameron Stallones in this month's Wire btw.

Yeah, I read that. It was all a little high falutin' for my dumb ass. I like the jams, though.

I just learned it's "highfalutin," not "high falutin'," so that fancy magazine learned me something after all.

let's all get high and do some falutin'

http://www.thefader.com/2012/03/13/happy-songs-cameron-stallones-m-geddes-gengras-and-the-congos/?single_paged=1

DJ /rupture's hifalutin' piece for Fader.

stopped reading that sentence at DJ Rupture can you sum it up for me

That story is worth clicking on just to see the pictures of Stallones looking totally blazed imo.

it's not that highfalutin'. good article.

That story is worth clicking on just to see the pictures of Stallones looking totally blazed imo.

lol, otm

xp I was joking. :)

Oh shit! Sun Araw + the Congos are gigging together:
http://thequietus.com/articles/08297-congos-sun-araw-live-london

Woah! I should def go to this.

It does have potential to be the worst mess ever tbh.

True

http://fordtheatres.org/en/events/details/id/352

Sun Araw works with a friend of mine

was just listening to this dude playing music on the dublab stream, dude's set started off pretty amazingly

We like him

the show I saw abt a month ago where he just played with his one friend or w/e was better than any of the ones I've seen w/ his band imo

i'm kinda disappointed by this congos thing, it's got that "half baked" vibe of all those really bad post-90s random lee perry collaborations

totally, I kind of skipped thru it once, nothing really held me

packaging is really dope

maybe it's just suffering cause i also grabbed the two sevens clash remaster at the same time which is like thee roots and culture album of all time

Man, this show tonight with Sun Araw and the Congos at Village Underground in Shoreditch was a blast. Such a great, fun vibe - everyone in the place was totally grinning the whole time. They played a bunch of the record (which worked really well live) and then a nice smattering of vintage Congos tunes, which were amazing. So fun.

oh shit I completely forgot about that gig :(

They played a bunch of the record (which worked really well live) and then a nice smattering of vintage Congos tunes

i would cry so hard at a show like this

Great to hear that they pulled it off!

Should I buy Ancient Romans? I like Heavy Deeds a lot. I like On Patrol, too, although not as much.

man Beach Head is such a rad album

"The Inner Treaty" is my fave by this fellow so far--was already catching a heavy Lovely Music vibe off this before looking at this thread and seeing Robert Ashley get thrown down right off the bat...

http://www.jonhassell.com/atmosphere/hex.html

cant believe I didnt know he had another album coming out. The SA/Congos album is p good imo

"inner treaty" = epic jams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGMygjOY48

listening to "on patrol," really digging this. i feel like i'm in space and a swamp at the same time.

yeah, that's still the favorite. love inner treaty too, esp after ancient romans, which fucked with my biorhythms.

fish is totally cracking up

haha

belomancie is as mystifying as it is enchanting, the first half i had no idea what was happening, the second half i still had no idea but it was suddenly the best stuff i've heard all year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abp_eCwtnTY

Anyone seen him live? I have a foreign visitor friend who wants to have some authentic brooklyn experiences and whatnot and I'm debating between taking him to see Sun Araw vs Part Time on Thursday.

I should add that apparently he is stoned a lot.

Saw him and his band back The Congos at LPR a while back. They were quite good but honestly, I have no idea what this show will be like. I'm thinking though that it might be right up a stoner's alley.

Definitely take the stoner to that, and hope he plays lots off On Patrol.

SUNSHINE

DAYTIME

SUNSHINE

IT'S MORE THAN LIGHT

i found the frkwys icon give thank collaboration w/ the congos a little hard to get into at first but its rewards have been increasing lately for me

Stallones, PLURAL

what are folks' thoughts on the most recent one, belomancie? first listen it seemed a little less organic than the previous ones but i haven't spent a whole lot of time with it

I've never been into any sun araw recorded shit for some reason. I do like gengras' and alex grey's recordings though

I bought it (one of the relatively few CDs I bought in 2014) but have still never listened to it. So yeah, dunno.

ancient romans is fucking incredible

love this dude so much

Been jamming "Happy Song" hard since last Tuesday. A good tonic for these times.

https://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/frkwys09-happy-song

Heavy Deeds, On Duty/Boat Trip and On Patrol seem now like early foundations of Sun Araw’s sound, and Icon Give Thank a grounded collaboration with The Congos.

Traveling further on his own, Ancient Romans, Belomancie, and Rock Sutra were very trippy and deconstructed, and listening back on them they all sound fantastic to me

those first three you mentioned + “ancient romans” are the ones i keep coming back to. wish they’d reissue “on patrol”, vinyl goes for silly money now