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39576540 | Play | Asphodel | 00:00 Tools | |
39576541 | Play | While the Sun Burns Out Another Sun | 00:00 Tools | |
39576542 | Play | Crystallize It | 00:00 Tools | |
39576543 | Play | Sonic Glimpses | 00:00 Tools | |
39576544 | Play | Cleanliness is Next to Godliness | 00:00 Tools | |
39576545 | Play | Defrost_Oven | 00:00 Tools | |
39576546 | Play | Midnight Moonbeams | 00:00 Tools | |
39576547 | Play | In Between | 00:00 Tools | |
39576548 | Play | Mossgarden | 00:00 Tools | |
39576549 | Play | forest of spades | 00:00 Tools | |
39576550 | Play | Fantomastique Alaska | 00:00 Tools | |
39576552 | Play | The Drone From Beyond Love | 00:00 Tools | |
39576551 | Play | Asphodel (edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576553 | Play | Crest & Watersheds | 00:00 Tools | |
39576554 | Play | Leafcutter John | 00:00 Tools | |
39576555 | Play | Finzione | 00:00 Tools | |
39576556 | Play | Sleepwalker | 00:00 Tools | |
39576557 | Play | Kammerflimmer Kollektief | 00:00 Tools | |
39576558 | Play | Bugged | 00:00 Tools | |
39576562 | Play | Mira Calix | 00:00 Tools | |
39576559 | Play | One lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a short-cut that he never found, David Vincent has seen The Residents | 00:00 Tools | |
39576565 | Play | Rothko | 00:00 Tools | |
39576560 | Play | 101. Strings Of Consciousness - Asphodel | 05:06 Tools | |
39576561 | Play | Sirenade 'Round Midnite | 00:00 Tools | |
39576563 | Play | Hurt is where the home is | 00:00 Tools | |
39576566 | Play | Gamial Trio | 00:00 Tools | |
39576564 | Play | A Dark Grey Moon Light | 00:00 Tools | |
39576569 | Play | Scanner | 00:00 Tools | |
39576568 | Play | Marsen Jules | 00:00 Tools | |
39576567 | Play | Sonic Glimpses (45 Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576572 | Play | Sutekh | 00:00 Tools | |
39576570 | Play | remix by Rothko | 00:00 Tools | |
39576571 | Play | remix by Mira Calix | 00:00 Tools | |
39576573 | Play | remix by Gamial Trio | 00:00 Tools | |
39576575 | Play | Conscious (theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576574 | Play | Remix by Scanner | 00:00 Tools | |
39576576 | Play | Remix by Marsen Jules | 00:00 Tools | |
39576577 | Play | clearliness is next step to go | 00:00 Tools | |
39576579 | Play | Motion-Pictured | 00:00 Tools | |
39576578 | Play | Remix by Sutekh | 00:00 Tools | |
39576580 | Play | Asphodel (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576581 | Play | Remix by Si-cut-db | 00:00 Tools | |
39576583 | Play | Crystallize It (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576582 | Play | remix by Kammerflimmer Kollekt | 00:00 Tools | |
39576584 | Play | Sugar & Spicey | 00:00 Tools | |
39576585 | Play | In Between (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576588 | Play | Si-cut.db | 00:00 Tools | |
39576586 | Play | Live At Supersonic 2007 | 00:00 Tools | |
39576587 | Play | remix by Kammerflimmer Kollektief | 00:00 Tools | |
39576590 | Play | Watching the alley of the dead from the Pyramid of the Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
39576589 | Play | Whale Lake | 00:00 Tools | |
39576591 | Play | Si-cut-db | 00:00 Tools | |
39576592 | Play | While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576593 | Play | Midnight Moonbeams (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576594 | Play | Crests & watersheds | 00:00 Tools | |
39576596 | Play | [reciprocess : +/vs.] | 00:00 Tools | |
39576595 | Play | 17 | 00:00 Tools | |
39576597 | Play | 01 - Conscious (theme) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576598 | Play | 02 - motion-pictured | 00:00 Tools | |
39576602 | Play | Reciprocess | 00:00 Tools | |
39576599 | Play | 05 - Crystallize It (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576600 | Play | 04 - In Between (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576601 | Play | 06 - Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576604 | Play | Remix By Si-Cut.DB | 00:00 Tools | |
39576603 | Play | 03 - Asphodel (instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576605 | Play | Forest Os Spades | 00:00 Tools | |
39576606 | Play | 07 - Sugar & Spicey | 00:00 Tools | |
39576607 | Play | 09 - Midnight Moonbeams (Instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576613 | Play | Untitled | 00:00 Tools | |
39576610 | Play | Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (with Eugene Robinson) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576608 | Play | 08 - While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (Instr.) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576609 | Play | 12 - Defrost_Oven | 00:00 Tools | |
39576614 | Play | Strings Of Consciousness - Asphodel | 00:00 Tools | |
39576616 | Play | Forest Of Spade | 00:00 Tools | |
39576617 | Play | Asphodel (ft J.G. Thirlwell) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576615 | Play | Sonic Glimpses (ft Barry Adamson) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576620 | Play | Kammerflimmer Kollectief | 00:00 Tools | |
39576611 | Play | 11 - Reciprocess | 00:00 Tools | |
39576612 | Play | 10 - Watching The Alley Of The Dead From The Pyramid Of The Moon | 00:00 Tools | |
39576618 | Play | Crystallize It (ft Scott McCloud) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576619 | Play | Defrost Oven (ft Lisa Smith Klossner) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576621 | Play | One Lost Night On A Lonely Road, Looking For A Short Cut He Never Found, David Vincent Has Seen The Residents. | 00:00 Tools | |
39576622 | Play | one lost night... | 00:00 Tools | |
39576623 | Play | In Between (with Pete Simonelli) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576624 | Play | Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (ft Eugene Robinson) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576625 | Play | In Between (ft Pete Simonelli) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576626 | Play | Midnight Moonbeams (ft Black Sifichi) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576627 | Play | Cleanliness Is Next To Godline | 00:00 Tools | |
88312959 | Play | #1 | 00:00 Tools | |
88312958 | Play | Sonic Glimpses - Instrumental | 00:00 Tools | |
39576628 | Play | In Between (feat. Pete Simonelli) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576629 | Play | sonic glimpses (instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576630 | Play | Crystallize It (feat. Scott McCloud) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576631 | Play | Labyrinth | 00:00 Tools | |
39576632 | Play | In Between (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576633 | Play | Crystallize It (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576634 | Play | Asphodel (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576635 | Play | Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576636 | Play | Midnight Moonbeams (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
39576637 | Play | While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools |
Our Moon is Full is the debut album from Strings Of Consciousness, an ensemble made up of 9 members hailing from Marseille, France, via London, Paris and Chicago. Using their manifesto of uniting acoustic instrumentation and human sensibility with digital technology, the group were able to draft in many talented musicians from across the globe via the Internet. The result: a cohesive, warm, lush, harmonious collection of pieces, feeling as if they live and breathe-in the same air. Today, 9 musicians form the collective, although the beating heart of Strings Of Consciousness can be found as a string quintet. The name itself is both a reference to the traditional stringed instrument quintet section and also a direct literary reference to the phrase "stream of consciousness", a term coined in the early 20th century to illustrate the flow of words echoing the narrator's thoughts: a narrative technique that is dear to the ensemble. Strings Of Consciousness express their connection to free-form narrative via liberating, emotive-led musical improvisation and capturing those perfect moments on tape. Narration is key to Our Moon is Full, as it features outstanding vocal contributions from honorary ensemble members J.G. Thirlwell (Foetus/Steroid Maximus), Barry Adamson, Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Scott McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Pete Simonelli (Enablers), Black Sifichi and Lisa Smith-Klossner. Our Moon is Full takes the traditional 2-sided long-playing format to its logical extreme; the dark followed by the light, from one side to another – not unlike our own moon’s cyclic pattern. Starting with a slow build-up, setting a sunlit scene of loss and lust from afar, the record takes the listener on many aural and visual adventures through (occasionally twisted) soul-bearing confession, pent-up rock, taut & raw emotion and exploratory musical and lyrical freedom through classical music and literature, melodic drifting ambient, soaring guitars, film-noir, psychosis and pretty much anything and everything between, and surrounding. Take Eugene Robinson’s brutal account of a man that finds himself on the wrong side of the law mixed with a modern, Western-themed, maxi-minimalist soundtrack flanked from the rear by a huge tidal wave of blasting industrial cadence. Or take Asphodel, which starts in a free-form jazz style with Percival Bellone’s saxophone competing head-to-head with serene electronics, before the whole thing implodes into a tribal rhythm using guitars teleported directly from one of David Lynch’s more serene dreams, interwoven with field recordings of asphodel leaves crunching under foot – this unique structure is used in the more conventional sense, it being the key pattern keeper of the track. That’s not even to mention J.G. Thirlwell’s astonishing vocals. Members of Strings Of Consciousness come from, and have worked with, such luminaries as The Macé Ensemble, Bob Mould, the Sea and Cake, Soft Machine, Frank Black, Robert Wyatt, David Thomas’ 2 Pale Boys, Spaceheads and Deviationists, in addition to having run two of France’s premier independent labels, Pandemonium (Unsane, Cerberus Shoal and more) and BiP_HOp (Erik Friedlander, Rothko, Scanner and more). The group have also been given the honour of being the only band to feature a new composition on the acclaimed My Brightest Diamond remix album Tear It Down, which was released worldwide on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty label in early 2007 to mass critical acclaim. Live dates throughout Europe are booked for the summer months, starting with the lauded Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, alongside Mogwai, sunn0))) and more. The festival season will be a busy one for the group, whilst they perform to thousands and tighten themselves up for their debut US dates, provisionally set for the fall of 2007. Strings Of Consciousness are: Raphaelle Rinaudo (harp), Andy Diagram (trumpet / electronics), Nicolas Dick (guitars), Abdenor Natouri (double bass), Perceval Bellone (saxophone, Tibetan bowls, flute, piano), Hervé Vincenti (guitar/laptop), Philippe Petit (Theremin/laptop/turntables), Alison Chesley (cello), Stefano Tedesco (vibraphone). Recent acclaim for Strings Of Consciousness: THE WIRE #271 / UK / September 2006 French collective Strings Of Consciousness dovetails acoustic and electronic textures ascending into ensemble interplay reminiscent of the Boxhead Ensemble. XLR8R / USA / August 2006 Strings Of Consciousness sounds something like a cross between a very competent experimental electronic artists and a well-done movie soundtrack. The musical collective manages to remain in synch through the numerous pianos, guitars, basses, bleeps and clicks that appear throughout their tracks, and create a rhythm together that is haunting, unpredictable, and curiously feel good at the same time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.