Hot on the heels of their critically revered 2014 KrautrockmeetsAfrobeat longplayer 'Regions' Ellis Island Sound's Pete Astor and David Sheppard return with a brand new seventrack minialbum Inspired by the main flow of Regions the new record is another fertile marriage between motorik Mitteleuropapulse and subtropical guitar and percussion textures This time however the emphasis is less on throbbing Neubeatpropelled blowouts and more on intricate highly melodic arrangements for guitars keyboards and tuned percussion with a spacious sound palette propelled by polyrhythmic marimbas and xylophones and layered with infectious lead lines and choral vocals the latter sourced by Astor and Sheppard from dusty archive recordings and manipulated into subtle stirring descants on several tracks Reference points might be the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 'Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter' Cluster's 'Sowiesoso' LP Steve Reich's Counterpoint compositions or the juju pop of 'King' Sunny Ade with Ellis Island Sound taking such implicit influences and moulding them into shapes that are distinctive and very much to their own design a modus operandi that the gentlemanly duo have deployed for the duration of their unhurried but enduring 18yearlong career to date LP With fine art poster and Download

Ellis Island Sound

Divisions

Village Green
Album artwork for Divisions by Ellis Island Sound
CD

$18.99

CD

Released 12/01/2014Catalog Number

VG021CD

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Ellis Island Sound

Divisions

Village Green
Album artwork for Divisions by Ellis Island Sound
CD

$18.99

CD

Released 12/01/2014Catalog Number

VG021CD

Learn more

Hot on the heels of their critically revered 2014 KrautrockmeetsAfrobeat longplayer 'Regions' Ellis Island Sound's Pete Astor and David Sheppard return with a brand new seventrack minialbum Inspired by the main flow of Regions the new record is another fertile marriage between motorik Mitteleuropapulse and subtropical guitar and percussion textures This time however the emphasis is less on throbbing Neubeatpropelled blowouts and more on intricate highly melodic arrangements for guitars keyboards and tuned percussion with a spacious sound palette propelled by polyrhythmic marimbas and xylophones and layered with infectious lead lines and choral vocals the latter sourced by Astor and Sheppard from dusty archive recordings and manipulated into subtle stirring descants on several tracks Reference points might be the Penguin Cafe Orchestra's 'Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter' Cluster's 'Sowiesoso' LP Steve Reich's Counterpoint compositions or the juju pop of 'King' Sunny Ade with Ellis Island Sound taking such implicit influences and moulding them into shapes that are distinctive and very much to their own design a modus operandi that the gentlemanly duo have deployed for the duration of their unhurried but enduring 18yearlong career to date LP With fine art poster and Download