SUNN O))) TO RELEASE METTA, BENEVOLENCE

3 Nov 2021

SUNN O))) TO RELEASE METTA, BENEVOLENCE

SUNN O))) Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music - Paintings by Samantha Keely Smith

BBC 6MUSIC : LIVE ON THE INVITATION OF MARY ANNE HOBBS

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Tune into Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6 Music to Hear an Excerpt of “Troubled Air” + Check Out a Teaser Below.

In late October 2019, following a successful UK tour ending in a sold-out concert at the mythical Roundhouse in London, SUNN O))) entered studio 4 of the BBC Maida Vale. On invitation to record a live session for Mary Anne Hobbs to be broadcast on Samhain via her excellent radio show on BBC6. To enter the legendary John Peel studios was to enter a temple of music and experimentation, liberty in ideas and sound.

The band was nearing the end of a long touring year around the Life Metal and Pyroclasts albums. SUNN O))) had developed the compositions extensively, embracing the formative concepts of the Life Metal album conceptually and emotionally, but actualised and evolved into vast, open and bright hyper-saturated arrangements. Particularly the pieces the band chose to perform on this recording: Troubled Air and Pyroclasts. The former enriched into a total aspect of the band’s ethos and form in many ways, and Pyroclasts had evolved to become all-inclusive radiation of O))). The radiation embraces collaboration and freedom of interpretation by each player, within a structural format of the massive monuments of sound and distortion which define SUNN O))).

Anna Von Hausswolff and her band had accompanied SUNN O))) on the UK leg, and Anna joined SUNN O))) in the studio on synths and with her tremendous voice on the Pyroclasts pieces.

Watch (+ share) the teaser visualiser for “Troubled Air” from Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music : Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs on YouTube.

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BBC 6Music : Live on the invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs

Pyroclasts F
Pyroclasts C#
Troubled Air

Stephen O’Malley (Electric Guitar, Minimoog Model D synthesizer)
Greg Anderson (Electric Guitar, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer)
Tos Nieuwenhuizen (Moog Rogue synthesizer)
Stephen Moore (Trombone, Roland Junior-106 (mod) & Nord Stage (gaffed black) synthesizers)
Tim Midyett (Electric Bass Guitar, Roland Juno-106 synthesizer)
Anna von Hausswolff (Voice & Nord C2D synthesizer on Pyroclasts F & C#)