Strings Of Consciousness

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Asphodel 00:00 Tools
While the Sun Burns Out Another Sun 00:00 Tools
Crystallize It 00:00 Tools
Sonic Glimpses 00:00 Tools
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness 00:00 Tools
Defrost_Oven 00:00 Tools
Midnight Moonbeams 00:00 Tools
In Between 00:00 Tools
Mossgarden 00:00 Tools
forest of spades 00:00 Tools
Fantomastique Alaska 00:00 Tools
The Drone From Beyond Love 00:00 Tools
Asphodel (edit) 00:00 Tools
Crest & Watersheds 00:00 Tools
Leafcutter John 00:00 Tools
Finzione 00:00 Tools
Sleepwalker 00:00 Tools
Kammerflimmer Kollektief 00:00 Tools
Bugged 00:00 Tools
Mira Calix 00:00 Tools
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
Rothko 00:00 Tools
101. Strings Of Consciousness - Asphodel 05:06 Tools
Sirenade 'Round Midnite 00:00 Tools
Hurt is where the home is 00:00 Tools
Gamial Trio 00:00 Tools
A Dark Grey Moon Light 00:00 Tools
Scanner 00:00 Tools
Marsen Jules 00:00 Tools
Sonic Glimpses (45 Version) 00:00 Tools
Sutekh 00:00 Tools
remix by Rothko 00:00 Tools
remix by Mira Calix 00:00 Tools
remix by Gamial Trio 00:00 Tools
Conscious (theme) 00:00 Tools
Remix by Scanner 00:00 Tools
Remix by Marsen Jules 00:00 Tools
clearliness is next step to go 00:00 Tools
Motion-Pictured 00:00 Tools
Remix by Sutekh 00:00 Tools
Asphodel (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Remix by Si-cut-db 00:00 Tools
Crystallize It (instr.) 00:00 Tools
remix by Kammerflimmer Kollekt 00:00 Tools
Sugar & Spicey 00:00 Tools
In Between (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Si-cut.db 00:00 Tools
Live At Supersonic 2007 00:00 Tools
remix by Kammerflimmer Kollektief 00:00 Tools
Watching the alley of the dead from the Pyramid of the Moon 00:00 Tools
Whale Lake 00:00 Tools
Si-cut-db 00:00 Tools
While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Midnight Moonbeams (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Crests & watersheds 00:00 Tools
[reciprocess : +/vs.] 00:00 Tools
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01 - Conscious (theme) 00:00 Tools
02 - motion-pictured 00:00 Tools
Reciprocess 00:00 Tools
05 - Crystallize It (instr.) 00:00 Tools
04 - In Between (instr.) 00:00 Tools
06 - Cleanliness Is Next to Godliness (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Remix By Si-Cut.DB 00:00 Tools
03 - Asphodel (instr.) 00:00 Tools
Forest Os Spades 00:00 Tools
07 - Sugar & Spicey 00:00 Tools
09 - Midnight Moonbeams (Instr.) 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (with Eugene Robinson) 00:00 Tools
08 - While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (Instr.) 00:00 Tools
12 - Defrost_Oven 00:00 Tools
Strings Of Consciousness - Asphodel 00:00 Tools
Forest Of Spade 00:00 Tools
Asphodel (ft J.G. Thirlwell) 00:00 Tools
Sonic Glimpses (ft Barry Adamson) 00:00 Tools
Kammerflimmer Kollectief 00:00 Tools
11 - Reciprocess 00:00 Tools
10 - Watching The Alley Of The Dead From The Pyramid Of The Moon 00:00 Tools
Crystallize It (ft Scott McCloud) 00:00 Tools
Defrost Oven (ft Lisa Smith Klossner) 00:00 Tools
One Lost Night On A Lonely Road, Looking For A Short Cut He Never Found, David Vincent Has Seen The Residents. 00:00 Tools
one lost night... 00:00 Tools
In Between (with Pete Simonelli) 00:00 Tools
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (ft Eugene Robinson) 00:00 Tools
In Between (ft Pete Simonelli) 00:00 Tools
Midnight Moonbeams (ft Black Sifichi) 00:00 Tools
Cleanliness Is Next To Godline 00:00 Tools
#1 00:00 Tools
Sonic Glimpses - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
In Between (feat. Pete Simonelli) 00:00 Tools
sonic glimpses (instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Crystallize It (feat. Scott McCloud) 00:00 Tools
Labyrinth 00:00 Tools
In Between (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Crystallize It (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Asphodel (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Midnight Moonbeams (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
While The Sun Burns Out Another Sun (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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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.