Damo Suzuki's Network featuring The Elysian Quartet – Floating Element

Damo Suzuki's Network featuring The Elysian Quartet – Floating ElementLimited double vinyl LP pressing. Live archive release. From the innovative vocalist of legendary Krautrock group, Can, comes this incredible live album recorded in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London 2007. This amazing performance combines Damo's inimitable, improvisational vocalizations with a modern classical string quartet to create music that defies categorization and is utterly riveting. Damo was born in Japan but spent the late 60s

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The solo violin work of Sarah Neufeld has emerged more recently

Dirty Three

Who were these men and how on earth was this not some unearthed archived footage from the ‘60s or ‘70s

it is deeply considered

The resulting pieces occupy a unique territory somewhere between paranormal electronics and cosmos-seeking psychedelia

Perhaps it’s bare-bones album closer “Forgiveness” that best ties together all of the record’s loose threads

Tortoise then performed those five loose themes at a handful of concerts

the proceedings sound remarkably intimate with concise and sophisticated songs built largely on tone and mood

Jonathan Zawada designed the album's cover

Parker has worked as a side man with many jazz greats

This is the 2009 reissue of Sunny Day Real Estate’s 1995 sophomore album