Chicago’s very own Joan of Arc to release ‘Oh Brother’
Yes, it’s finally happened, Joan of Arc are now a power trio…yup, a legit three-piece. Here is a band that has been making music in Chicago for over 10 years doing what they do best, goin’ with the flow. Following is the official word taken from joanfrc.com – Pouya G.
Joan of Arc is officially a power-trio with rumors of Nate Kinsella joining the party for a new full-length some time in 2011. Meaningful Work is a taste of things to come.
In the words of Tim Kinsella: Peak Oil! Environmental Devastation and mass species die-off! Resource wars and economic collapse! Even we first-world bohemians are feeling the pinch. Joan of Arc has had to tighten its belt as we all have. Who can afford a second drummer, a vibraphone, a cellist, post-production processing? The songs are the same. I sit on my couch and play guitar and sing. But the production values have been restricted. And as a result, for the same amount of sonic information to get across we each have to work a little harder. This is the Joan of Arc of the new dust-bowl daze.
In other news, Joan of Arc have compiled a lot of music that has been mixed and mastered right here in Chicago, this will follow to release as a new double LP titled “Oh Brother.” This 2XLP features 14 collaborators including Sacramento’s very own Zach Hill on drums (on side A), in their infamous outfit Friend/Enemy.
Featuring collaborations with 14 musicians, including Zach Hill of Hella & Rob Lowe of Lichens, this is indie-rock for the initiated. Oh Brother is the combination of four distinct albums embarked upon but never completed by Joan of Arc curator Tim Kinsella. Each album is broken up and spliced together into a tessellating unity of long, noisy, meditative and abrasive, instrumental movements which fill the totality of each side of this double LP. Each side –A, B, C, and D– contains just one track, with song lengths varying from 20 minutes to 20 minutes and 36 seconds.
Kinsella, known for the elegiac density and free-associative quality of his lyrics, has dispensed with words altogether on this album – choosing rather to break up and splice together these instrumental studio sessions into a tessellating unity. This is Joan Of Arc at their most esoteric and expansive.
The four distinct ensembles woven into Oh Brother are:
FRIEND / ENEMY
(featuring Tim Kinsella, Zach Hill [Hella], Nate Kinsella [Make Believe], Sam Zurick [Cap'n Jazz, Make Believe] and others)
TK / FR DUO
(Tim Kinsella w/ jazz drummer Frank Rosaly)
LIKINS
(Tim Kinsella w/ Rob Lowe)
MINERAL TOTEM
(Tim Kinsella, Jeff Bradbury, Robert Ryan, and Doug Rosen- burg)
Oh Brother is a vinyl/digital-only release, limited to 500 hand-numbered double LPs in gatefold jackets. Numbers 1 to 150 are on white vinyl. Every copy includes high-quality MP3 and FLAC download.
Please click here to listen to a track from said album Joan of arc
