Inviato 18 febbraio 2010 - 01:54
Marissa Nadler canta sul nuovo album di xasthur
questo è un post sul suo myspace:
xasthur record
I also wanted to let people know that I am singing on an entire Xasthur album that will be out on LP soon. It's all ambient, without words of my own, and was a pleasure to work on. It's some heavy music.
e questo è quanto riporta pitchfork:
Xasthur and Marissa Nadler Collaborate on New Album
It's not exactly right to say that the mysterious, misanthropic California black metal auteur Xasthur and the Boston narco-folker Marissa Nadler are each other's stylistic opposites. After all, both make dense, atmospheric, and immersive music, and both seem like they have really comfortable throw rugs and large numbers of candles in their apartments. But the two have never made a whole lot of music outside of their respective chosen lanes, and there are a few worlds of difference between black metal and folk. So it comes as somewhat of a surprise to learn that Xasthur and Nadler are working together.
L.A. Weekly points out that both artists blogged about collaborating last month. On her blog, Nadler wrote that she'd recorded wordless backing vocals for a forthcoming Xasthur album: "He has words but I have none. Its been lovely to break through vocal barriers and inhibitions and contribute to something harder and darker."
In a September post on Xasthur's blog, he fleshed things out a little bit. On this forthcoming album, Xasthur will be responsible for "Drums, Guitars (6&12 string), Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Music/Lyrics, Voice and Misery," while Nadler will handle "choir" and "backing vocal dirges." He also writes that the collaboration "is really an honor because I'm quite a fan of her music." Xasthur isn't exactly the type to say nice things about people, so you know he's serious.
According to Xasthur, Nadler's voice is "another instrument to accent the music of Xasthur which is an old sound that just doesn't come out of today's technology." He also writes that he's tiring of black metal as a genre and scene ("fitting in is for needy people"), but that we should't expect him to go freak-folk or anything: "If you're expecting anything less dark or atmospheric with the music on the next album, then you're deeply mistaken."
More recently, Xasthur has written that the collaboration with Nadler "has been incredible, mournful and haunting," and that the new album, titled Portal of Sorrow, should be out on CD this March.
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