Monoliths & Dimensions

Monoliths & Dimensions
Studio album by Sunn O)))
Publication (s)	May 18, 2009
admission	2007-2009
Label (s)	Southern Lord
Genre (s)	Drone Doom
Title (number)	4th
running time	53:00
occupation	Greg Anderson (guitar) Stephen O'Malley (guitar)
production	Mell Dettmer , Randall Dunn
chronology Dømkirke 2008 Monoliths & Dimensions -

Monoliths & Dimensions is the seventh studio album by the drone band Sunn O))) . The cover is the image out-of-round X by Richard Serra .

Emergence

The album took two years to work on. It was created in collaboration with the composer Eyvind Kang , the Australian guitarist and avant-garde composer Oren Ambarchi , the Hungarian singer Attila Csihar , Dylan Carlson , (guitarist of the drone formation Earth ) and the trombonists Julian Priester and Stuart Dempster. Unusual instrument combinations contribute to the great wealth of timbres in the music: string ensembles, a double bass trio, flute , oboe , English horn , French horn , other brass and woodwinds, harp , piano, shell horn , analog synthesizer , a male choir and a Viennese female choir, led by the singer Jessika Kenney, a specialist in Persian singing and vocal experiments.

As with Black One , the vocals were partly recorded in confined spaces.

Style and content

Monoliths & Dimensions mixes elements of Drone Doom with brass, choirs and other unusual instruments for this genre . John Doran sees subtle allusions to jazz and fusion in the album , for example the track Alice is named after Alice Coltrane . Sam Shepherd thinks the album is from Earths Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method .

reception

The album received mostly good reviews. The Metacritic website gave an average rating of 88/100 points.

Allmusic's Thom Jurek described the album as brilliant with its mix of “Drone, Rock and Black Metal ”. Despite a maximum rating of 10 points, John Doran finds the album “not for everyone”. John Shepherd sees the danger that Monoliths & Dimensions will "remain unheard on many people's shelves as proof of their own open-mindedness". Steven Wilson mentions it in a "Prog Special" by Metal Hammer magazine as "Favorite album in the Prog area":

“An amazing hybrid of metal and progressive […] Sunn O))) […] have added strings , horns and choirs to their palette - which is a deeply 'progressive' gesture. Here you research jazz , classical and chamber music . "

- Steven Wilson : Essential Treasures and ...

Track list

1. Aghartha - 17:34
2. Big Church [Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért] - 9:43
3. Hunting & Gathering (Cydonia) - 10:02
4. Alice - 16:21

occupation

• Stephen O'Malley : Electric Guitar
• Greg Anderson : electric guitar, electric bass
• Attila Csihar : Singing
• Oren Ambarchi : E-Guitar, Motorized Cymbal, Oscillator, Guitar Effects, Gong, Wolf Log
• Eyvind Kang : viola , choir , brass & string arrangements
• Dylan Carlson : electric guitar, choir arrangements
• Julian Priest : Trombone & Conch Shell
• Stuart Dempster : Trombone, Conch Shell, Dungchen
• Mell Dettmer: carillon , hydrophone
• Timb Harris: violin
• Jessika Kenney: direction alto & soprano choir; Choir, brass and string arrangements
• Tim Smolens: double bass
• Moriah Neils: double bass
• Keith Lowe: double bass
• Daniel Menche: male choir
• William Herzog: Male Choir, Electric Tamboura
• Steve Moore: Trombone, Organ , Korg MS20 , Roland Juno , Conch Shell, Dungchen
• Brad Mowen: bass drum , percussion , male choir
• Joe Preston: Male choir
• Rex Knight: Korg MS20, Moog Voyager
• Hans Teuber: clarinet , bass clarinet , alto flute
• Cuong Vu: trumpet
• Tony Moore: Trumpet
• Melissa Walsh: harp
• Taina Karr: English horn , oboe
• Eric Walton: piano
• Josiah Boothby: F-Horn
• Jutta Sierlinger: Choir ( alto )
• Angela Kiemayer: Choir (alto)
• Varena Bodem: Choir (alto)
• Katharina Einsiedl: choir (alto / soprano )
• Stephanie Pfeffer: choir (alto / soprano)
• Loma Döring: choir (alto / soprano)

Web links

Southern Lord : Monoliths & Dimensions

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SUNN O))): More 'Monoliths & Dimensions' Details Revealed .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. blabbermouth; Retrieved March 6, 2010  
2. ^ Joel Elliott: Sunn O))), Pt. 1. cokemachineglow.com, archived from the original on August 5, 2009 ; Retrieved July 7, 2010 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Review at drownedinsound.com; Retrieved March 6, 2010.
4. ↑ Andy Beta: Sunn O))), 'Monoliths & Dimensions' (Southern Lord). spin.com; Retrieved March 6, 2010.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Sam Shepherd: Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions. musicomh.com, archived from the original on October 16, 2009 ; Retrieved March 6, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Monoliths & Dimensions at metacritic.com ; Retrieved March 6, 2010.
7. ↑ Review at Allmusic ; Retrieved March 6, 2010.
8. ^ Prog-Special: History. In: Metal Hammer , December 2009, p. 38, ISSN  1614-2292 .