Asva
Futurists Against The Ocean LP28150
G. Stuart Dahlquist began working on Futurists Against The Ocean after taking several years hiatus away from the doom/drone music that in earlier years had so entranced him. It seemed that there could be a deeper connection for the listener; some of the mind's buttons could be pushed to create an emotional dialogue beyond the sheer power of all that sound. It was difficult to find people interested in going beyond what the genre had already accomplished and in creating Futurists, Dahlquist, and his collaborator in ASVA Brad Mowen, felt that bringing musicians in from diverse musical backgrounds including Gamelan and Middle Eastern musics, pop, and contemporary classical music might help to create the atmosphere they had hoped would define Asva as a different breed altogether.
The demos were recorded by Dahlquist over the course of a week's worth of all night sessions in the basement of a museum. From here, the music was promptly sent off to the other members of Asva: Brad Mowen, Trey Spruance, Troy Swanson, John Schuller, Jessika Kinney, and Randall Dunn, each of whom worked out their individual voices according to the parameters set by those early demos. The result became Futurists Against The Ocean, a record that evokes a multitude of imagery; the stark landscapes and rolling seas of "Kill The Dog", "Tie Them Up, Then Take The Money" and "Zaum: Beyonsense" lead one on a path to the fragile beauty of "Fortune" and the resounding triumph of "By The Well Of Living And Seeing". Futurists Against The Ocean is quite literally a journey from dark to light; from chaos through to a realisation of the self.
Track listing:
- Kill The Dog, Tie Them Up, Then Take The Money?
- Zaum: Beyonsense?
- Fortune?
- By The Well Of Living And Seeing
