Samekh

A 6 track experimental album (45m 13s) — released September 23rd 2013 on Fallow Field

JG/BC is the Irish duo of James Grimes (Drainland, Lurch, etc) and Brian Conniffe.

'Samekh', their first release, is a six-track exploration of improvised guitar, processing and field-recordings. With each track captured in a single take, the immediacy and unhindered spirit of the music is clear. Patient, dynamic and powerful, the pieces run from the uplifting and immersive opener 'The Vision Of The Machinery Of The Universe' through the bleak soundscape of 'Black Dwarf' and on to the peaks of the epic 13-minute centerpiece, 'Sorath'. With influences ranging from the charged spiritual electronics of Coil through to the wintry gravitas of early black metal, Grimes and Conniffe neatly side-step any new age hoohah and draw deep on a more primordial spirit, freeing the mind and helping it to focus on what is truly necessary. A cosmic journey that melds earthly spirit and celestial body.

If the record was a painting depicting the Irish ‘landscape’ it would be in the fluid forms and abstract patterns by Sean McSweeney or Barrie Cooke. - Mark Carry Fractured Air

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