Monoliths & Dimensions
Occupation
- Greg Anderson ( guitar)
- Stephen O'Malley (guitar)
Monoliths & Dimensions is the seventh studio album by drone band Sunn O))). The cover is the image out-of -round X by Richard Serra.
Formation
On the album has worked for two years. It was created in collaboration with composer Eyvind Kang, Australian guitarist and avant-garde composer Oren Ambarchi, Attila Csihar the Hungarian singer, Dylan Carlson, ( guitarist of the Drone Formation Earth) and the trombonist Julian Priester and Stuart Dempster. To a large tonal richness of the music, make unusual combinations of instruments at: string ensembles, a double bass trio, flute, oboe, English horn, French horn, more brass and woodwind, harp, piano, conch, analog synthesizer, a men's choir as well as a Viennese women's choir, led by singer Jessika Kenney, a specialist in Persian singing and vocal experiments.
As with the Black One song was recorded partly in tight, confined spaces.
Style and content
Monoliths & Dimensions mixed elements of Drone Doom with brass, choirs and other unusual instruments for this genre. John Doran sees the album subtle allusions to jazz and fusion, as, for example, bears the title Alice the name of John Coltrane's widow. Sam Shepherd keeps the album from Earths Hex; or Printing in the Infernal Method affected.
Reception
The album received mostly good reviews. The website Metacritic calculated an average score of 88 /100.
Thom Jurek of Allmusic called the album with its mix of " Drone, rock and black metal " as brilliant. John Doran is in spite of a maximum score of 10 points, the album is "not for everyone". John Shepherd sees the danger, the Monoliths & Dimensions a lot of people " unheard as evidence for their own open-mindedness is on the shelf ." Steven Wilson is mentioned in a "Prog - Special" of the magazine Metal Hammer as " favorite album of prog - range ":
" An amazing hybrid of metal and progressive [ ... ] Sunn O))) [ ... ] have their range supplemented by strings, horns and choirs - what is a profoundly progressive ' gesture. They explore here jazz, classical and chamber music. "
Title list
Occupation
- Stephen O'Malley: Electric Guitar
- Greg Anderson: electric guitar, electric bass
- Attila Csihar: Vocals
- Oren Ambarchi: Guitar Motorized Cymbal, Oscillator, Guitar Effects, Gong, Wolf Log
- Eyvind Kang: viola, choir, brass & string arrangements
- Dylan Carlson: electric guitar, choral arrangements
- Julian Priester: trombone & Conch Shell
- Stuart Dempster: trombone, conch shell, Dungchen
- Mell Dettmer: glockenspiel, hydrophone
- Timb Harris: Violin
- Jessika Kenney: Old line - & soprano choir; Choir, brass and string arrangements
- Tim Smolens: double bass
- Moriah Neils: 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 Ritter: 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: Choral (Alto)
- Angela Kiemayer: Choral (Alto)
- Varena gray floor: Choral (Alto)
- Catherine Einsiedl: choir (Alt / Soprano)
- Stephanie Pfeffer: choir (alto / soprano)
- Loma Döring: choir (alto / soprano)