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Following the acclaimed double A-side debut single 'Luther / No More Power' released in July, Morning Ritual Recordings (Holy Strays, J Fernandez) are pleased to announce the debut EP from Eaux - i EP’ .
Listen to EP opening track ' i ' HERE
Eaux is the new creation of London based Sian Ahern, Stephen Warrington and Ben Crook. Forming in late 2011 from the ashes of cult band Sian Alice Group, the bands music is made from the building blocks of drum pads and samplers, percussive sequencers, multiple synths, electric and bass guitar, all cycling in waves beneath Ahern’s spellbinding voice.
Structuring their songs to work with the constraints of the live setting, the trio alternate between instruments, sounds and rhythmic patterns to form compositions that weave together elements of folk, 60's bubblegum and psych, early German electronic music and British industrial & post punk, and the analogue era of Detroit techno, brought together and highlighted by Ahern’s crystalline, ethereal vocals.
i presents 5 new songs, each structured from an improvisational starting point. Developing, refining and reworking these initial improvisations to finished tracks is a necessary process "but only up to a point... that they remain open to us to enjoy in a live context is really important," says Warrington, "for example, the track i was deliberately half-written when we recorded it, so there was room for improvisation. The playing and the writing happened in parallel."
"If we can’t play a part live in the room together at the same time, it seems wrong to add in later", says Ahern, whose vocal lines are born of the same improvisational methods as the instrumentation, placing phonetics over the semantic which follow subconscious lines-of-thought towards glimmers of narrative drama - “It feels less thought about, more automatic. For me it was transcendental – trancing out without too much work and effort.”
Written in the band's east London rehearsal space in Spring 2012, the five songs that make up the EP were recorded and mixed in London's Tin Room studio in a few focused days.
i EP Tracklisting:
Listen to EP opening track ' i ' HERE
Eaux is the new creation of London based Sian Ahern, Stephen Warrington and Ben Crook. Forming in late 2011 from the ashes of cult band Sian Alice Group, the bands music is made from the building blocks of drum pads and samplers, percussive sequencers, multiple synths, electric and bass guitar, all cycling in waves beneath Ahern’s spellbinding voice.
Structuring their songs to work with the constraints of the live setting, the trio alternate between instruments, sounds and rhythmic patterns to form compositions that weave together elements of folk, 60's bubblegum and psych, early German electronic music and British industrial & post punk, and the analogue era of Detroit techno, brought together and highlighted by Ahern’s crystalline, ethereal vocals.
i presents 5 new songs, each structured from an improvisational starting point. Developing, refining and reworking these initial improvisations to finished tracks is a necessary process "but only up to a point... that they remain open to us to enjoy in a live context is really important," says Warrington, "for example, the track i was deliberately half-written when we recorded it, so there was room for improvisation. The playing and the writing happened in parallel."
"If we can’t play a part live in the room together at the same time, it seems wrong to add in later", says Ahern, whose vocal lines are born of the same improvisational methods as the instrumentation, placing phonetics over the semantic which follow subconscious lines-of-thought towards glimmers of narrative drama - “It feels less thought about, more automatic. For me it was transcendental – trancing out without too much work and effort.”
Written in the band's east London rehearsal space in Spring 2012, the five songs that make up the EP were recorded and mixed in London's Tin Room studio in a few focused days.
i EP Tracklisting:
- i
- New Peaks
- Snow
- Hold On
- Too Dark Too Tell
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