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We are happy to welcome San Francisco’s Barn Owl to our EU/UK roster. The band will release a full length on Thrill Jockey in the Fall 2010. There will be a number of other releases on labels such as Important, Root Strata and more in the near future as well.
Barn Owl are available for special events/festivals from late Fall on and will tour Europe/UK in Spring 2011.
Bio:
Hailing from San Francisco, Barn Owl formed in 2006 and have been carving a path through the extended drone landscape ever since. Comprised of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras, the duo use mainly effected guitars to create their sounds but often augment their sonic palette with synth, voice, and harmonium. So far they have two full-lengths and a large handful of much more highly limited releases. Their latest album, “The Conjurer” was released on LP/CD in 2009/2010 by Root Strata.
A new album will be out on Thrill Jockey in the Fall 2010!
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Press:
“Elegant, minimalist and deeply spectral, The Conjurer is the sound of post-Takoma folk dropped into an abyss of Western frontier violence and then slowed to the speed of tectonic realignment. Put simply, this is deeply elemental music, inexorably tied to the awe and paranoia engendered by the endless American horizon, and with it Porras and Caminiti – two of the most expressive guitarists to have emerged from the US underground in recent memory – have produced nothing short of a masterpiece.” - Drowned In Sound
” Today, Wolf Eyes and Sun O))) use drones similar to Barn Owl’s, signifying the death and destruction wrought by western civilization with heavy white noise and amplified, low tone feed back that feels, at times to register seismographically. Some might label this as garden variety stoner rock, but it transcends those genre misgivings. Barn Owl’s ultimate value lies within the subtlety of their approach, reminiscent almost of Indian classical music.” - Cokemachineglow
“It’s as though the first layer of American settlers has been reactivated through the music and Barn Owl are transmitters.” – Julian Cope
“Touching on everything from Tibetan chanting to sludgy doom riffs, Barn Owl never produced a sound they couldn’t stretch out like taffy” – Rolling Stone
San Francisco’s Barn Owl joins our EU/UK roster
Barn Owl are available for special events/festivals from late Fall on and will tour Europe/UK in Spring 2011.
Bio:
Hailing from San Francisco, Barn Owl formed in 2006 and have been carving a path through the extended drone landscape ever since. Comprised of Evan Caminiti and Jon Porras, the duo use mainly effected guitars to create their sounds but often augment their sonic palette with synth, voice, and harmonium. So far they have two full-lengths and a large handful of much more highly limited releases. Their latest album, “The Conjurer” was released on LP/CD in 2009/2010 by Root Strata.
A new album will be out on Thrill Jockey in the Fall 2010!
Video:
Press:
“Elegant, minimalist and deeply spectral, The Conjurer is the sound of post-Takoma folk dropped into an abyss of Western frontier violence and then slowed to the speed of tectonic realignment. Put simply, this is deeply elemental music, inexorably tied to the awe and paranoia engendered by the endless American horizon, and with it Porras and Caminiti – two of the most expressive guitarists to have emerged from the US underground in recent memory – have produced nothing short of a masterpiece.” - Drowned In Sound
” Today, Wolf Eyes and Sun O))) use drones similar to Barn Owl’s, signifying the death and destruction wrought by western civilization with heavy white noise and amplified, low tone feed back that feels, at times to register seismographically. Some might label this as garden variety stoner rock, but it transcends those genre misgivings. Barn Owl’s ultimate value lies within the subtlety of their approach, reminiscent almost of Indian classical music.” - Cokemachineglow
“It’s as though the first layer of American settlers has been reactivated through the music and Barn Owl are transmitters.” – Julian Cope
“Touching on everything from Tibetan chanting to sludgy doom riffs, Barn Owl never produced a sound they couldn’t stretch out like taffy” – Rolling Stone