The Tower: Hic Abundant Leones auf LP
Hic Abundant Leones
Die gute alte Vinyl - Langspielplatte.
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
Vinyl liefern wir innerhalb Deutschlands immer portofrei.
- Label:
- Bad Omen
- Aufnahmejahr ca.:
- 2014
- Artikelnummer:
- 4079065
- UPC/EAN:
- 0803341415645
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 27.2.2014
Product Information
"It was back in 1938 that the brothers Erik and August and
their friend Viktor migrated south. They left the small village
in the northern forests where they grew up for the big city
and the university, to study the science of harvesting the
earth. On the fields beside the burial mounds in old Uppsala
they met Tommie, a Soviet refugee. He showed them his sole
possession, a blues vinyl from 5300 BC, suspecting that it
would fit their melancholy northern souls. The four sat down
in a barn and played a blues jam which lasted until 1945,
when the war ended and the post-apocalyptic nuclear winter
began".
So begins the extraordinary tale of Swedish 'bad luck
boogie' combo THE TOWER, whose cryptic, swinging
timewarp of a debut LP is now released via London's Bad
Omen Records. The offbeat freakbeat and phantasmagorical
psych-blues of Hic Abundant Leones exude an ageless charm
and resounding singularity, striking eerie, dreamlike
atmospheres that seemingly confirm THE TOWER's
eccentric parallel-universe narrative. Sorting facts from the
fantasy of the band's complex mythology proves onerous; the
quartet bonded during "long, all-night rehearsals in an old
vicarage outside of Uppsala" and "began as some kind of
personal quest for us but once we realised that we had a
gospel we started preaching it.
It is not something new. It is
as ancient as the Sumerian blues records played by the
Dionysos cults of the Postapocalyptic Era. Moreover, there
have always been prophets of this gospel: wrayed Indians,
electric shamans, crazy horses, black skinheads, exhumed
singers, diddlying sheriffs, mean lick hookers, third eye girls,
many a stooge, all-man brothers, Birmingham attendants of
the Sabbath, and many, many more."
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Tracklisting
LP
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1 Non omnis moriar
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2 Adrenalawine
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3 Exile
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4 Lucy
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5 Lions at the gate
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6 Pine tree Mary
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7 Moonstoned
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8 Wounds
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9 The tower
