Volcanova - Radical Waves - VINYL LP

Limited colored vinyl LP pressing. Avawaves is Anna Phoebe and Aisling Brouwer - a classically trained duo who create ambient soundscapes based on an intricate interplay between violin and piano. Both are professional composers in their own right; Aisling for film and TV and Anna for the Royal Ballet School (as well as a session musician for enormous bands and artists), but it is through Avawaves that the pair carve out their own musical identity in collaboration with each other. Their exquisite second album Chrysalis is colored with a poignant sense of awe and wonder, evoking a universe of Avawaves, celebrating the magic of nature, imagination and the power of dreams. The album masterfully layers ethereal keys over swelling strings and pulsating synths in a series of euphoric epics. Sublime, celestial textures ebb and flow, building towards far-reaching climaxes where everything comes together in effortless, natural harmony. The bold expressive palette reveals the influence of surrealist artists such as Katharina Grosse and Hilma af Klint, as well as the films that shape their worlds, like Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon. Album Tracks 1. Chrysalis 2. Seahorse 3. Danu 4. Emerging Flight 5. Before We Wake 6. Midnight Bird 7. Lucid Dreaming 8. Forest Whispers 9. Sail Wave 10. Awakening

Album Tracks 1. Rueben 2. Simeon and Levi 3. Judah 4. Issachar 5. Zebulun 1. Dan 2. Gad and Asher 3. Naptali 4. Joseph 5. Benjamin

While on a writing retreat in the sleepy southern town of Benton, Mississippi, the members of New York's Ava Luna came across an abandoned house while on a walk through the woods. Overgrown, rotting, and littered with evidence of it's past inhabitants, the maze-like dwelling would haunt their psyches throughout the writing and recording of their third full-length Infinite House. Like Borges' InchLibrary of BabelInch, the seemingly endless rooms and hallways in the old house felt like a metaphor for the invisible, internal labyrinths, which the band explores lyrically and sonically on their new album. Recorded by drummer Julian Fader and vocalist/guitar player Carlos Hernandez, and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Spoon, MGMT), it is safely their most polished recording to date. But their trademark intensity, mirthful humor, and angularity remain resolutely in place, the burnished surfaces illuminating the stories beneath like never before. By questioning, or maybe just forgetting the rules of the real world, on Infinite House the band has grown beyond the Inchnervous soulInch descriptor they've been tagged with in the past, delivering an album on which nightmarish moments can Phoenix into revelations that help us reconnect with the surreal magic in our everyday lives. Album Tracks 1. Company 2 55 2. Tenderize 3 23 3. Steve Polyester 4 04 4. Roses and Cherries 2 51 5. Coat of Shellac 3 44 6. Infinite House 2 19 7. Black Dog 2 53 8. Best Hexagon 3 08 9. Billz 3 11 10. Victoria 7 33 11. Carbon 2 23