Name: 4
Brand: Thor and Friends

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

JNR307LPC1

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Colour

green

Colour details

Medicine Mint

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-09-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0753936905894

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / green

JNR307CD

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0753936905900

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Thor and Friends

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Joyful Noise Recordings

For fans of Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Moondog, Swans, The Necks. Polymath percussionist Thor Harris inaugurated Thor and Friends in the autumn of 2015 after five years of touring as the percussionist of iconic avant-rock ensemble Swans. The project is intended as a vehicle for experimentation with the conceptual vocabulary of American Minimalism collaborating with a rotating cast of Austin-based musicians. The ensemble has three core members, Thor Harris, Peggy Ghorbani and Sarah 'Goat' Gautier -with its line-up expanding and contracting with the flux of compositional and improvisational contexts. Thor and Friends draws on classic Minimalist composers, including Terry Riley and Steve Reich, but also amalgamate such diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog and The Necks around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments, primarily marimba, xylophone and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk and oboe. Thor and Friends, <i>4 </i>is the band's fourth LP. Initially put out as part of Joyful Noise Recordings, 2019 Artist in Residence, it is now being released far and wide through Joyful Noise. Through friendship and musical collaboration, this album brings together Craig Ross, Alan and Mimi from Low, Bill Callahan, and Jolie Holland; strings from the likes of Mollie Fischer, Travis Weller, Lindsey Verrill, Andrea Calderon, andNino Soberin; and even more instrumentation from Jeff Johnston on saw, Christopher Cundy, Andrea Belfi, and Adam Harding. 

Music GB