Исполнитель: Long Distance Calling

Исполнитель: Long Distance Calling
Альбом: Avoid The Light
Год: 2009-04-27 
Стиль: Instrumental Rock | Post-Rock
Лейбл: Superball
Количество треков: 6

Release Notes

 Although we'd almost given up hope, there seems to be a
 parallel universe away from anaemic supermarket muzak,
 restless radio formats and short-lived trends after all. There
 still is music which allows its listeners enough space for
 unlimited enjoyment, unfolds all its glory on top of lavish
 arrangements and takes the liberty of celebrating sounds and
 harmonic sequences in the elaborateness they deserve. This
 music is available here and now, thanks to Long Distance
 Calling, a five-piece from Germany's Munster region. Their
 second album, Avoid The Light, will be out on 27 April 2009 on
 Superball Music and promises everything you find yourself
 looking for without avail in most contemporary bands: an
 immediate coexistence of depth and exaltation, melancholia and
 joie de vivre, great gestures and small peculiarities.

 And somehow there's so much more to discover in Long Distance
 Calling's music: Avoid The Light opens a big gate which you
 step through to find a great diversity of moods and
 atmospheres. The basics consist of instrumental guitar rock
 with an ambient flavour, an oscillation of psychedelic and
 progressive rock elements. At the same time, Avoid The Light
 is an album which requires few words to communicate a lot.
 Should we call it post rock? Or perhaps new art rock? The
 label is irrelevant, it's the content that matters.

 Reactions to Long Distance Calling's debut, Satellite Bay
 (2007), were unanimously positive: 'Off the beaten track, away
 from the hype fostered by bumptious music publications, away
 from all fashionable trends and the maundering zeitgeist,
 without a 3-minute corset but a with a lot of persistence,'
 commented a reviewer in the magazine, Schallgrenzen, by all
 appearances covering all important benchmark data that mark
 Avoid The Light. At the same time, the five band members,
 David Jordan (guitar), Janosch Rathmer (drums), Florian
 F│ntmann (guitar), Jan Hoffmann (bass) and Reimut van Bonn
 (ambience), impress with an even more open-minded and
 progressive approach on Avoid The Light. According to the
 musicians, the six new tracks present 'an even wider stylistic
 range than our debut and are - as a direct consequence of our
 numerous gigs in 2008, with Dredg, at the Rock am Ring and
 Roadburn festivals, among others - faster, more haunting and
 more dynamic. Thanks to the thoroughly positive reactions to
 our first release, we have generally become much keener on
 experimentation.Ў As its predecessor, Avoid The Light features
 √ along with the five instrumental tracks - a number with a
 renowned guest vocalist. While Satellite Bay presented The
 Haunted's Peter Dolving, Jonas Renkse (Katatonia) recorded the
 vocal number 'The Nearing Grave' on the latest Long Distance
 Calling release. 'We're all great Katatonia fans, so it seemed
 the obvious thing to do to ask Jonas.'

 Avoid The Light was produced by Kurt Ebelhauser (Blackmail,
 Donots, among others), a true master of his art. 'The
 collaboration with him had a thoroughly positive effect on our
 sound,' observe the band members and can be confident that the
 transparent production does justice to their fascinating
 compositional parameters at all times. What a band, what an
 album...