(Experimental / Progressive Ambient) Bruce Lamont - Feral Songs For The Epic Decline - 2011, MP3 (tracks), 320 kbps

Bruce Lamont joined Yakuza in feb of 2000 and since the group has recorded 4 full lengths including their latest release "Transmutations"(prosthetic).His other projects include Forced Transcendence (rotating members.. saxophonist Dave Rempis, cellist Fred Lonberg-holm, brutal truth and sometimes painkiller vocalist Kevin Sharp, buried at sea/minsk mastermind Sanford Parker, and Jim yakuza), Moment Of Inertia ( guitarist Jeff Parker, bass player Nate Mcbride, and drummer Frank Rosaly), Mahj (featuring members from behold the arctopus, dysrhythmia, and day without dawn/ex-postman syndrome), Decayist (w/Nachtmystium frontman Blake Judd), Sick Gazelle (with guitarist Eric Block), Bloodiest (feat.mbrs of 90 Day Men and Sterling), and Ibex (RIP Included members of Corpse Vomit). Bruce has recorded wth the japanese black-metal turned space-prog band Sigh (The End),East West Blast Test (on Ipecac), Ken Vandermark for one of the next Dalek records, Jai-alai Savant ( out now on GSL),Cephalic Carnage (relapse), Minsk(relapse), Nachtmystium (century media), Rabid Rabbit,Poison Arrows (file 13), Sectara,STAYTE (13th planet), Brutal Truth,Hex Machine, and others. In july of 2006 he made is debut solo perfomance using a looper pedal and effects along with saxophones, guitar, voice, harp, and percussion. he has performed along side Scott Kelly (neurosis), Battles, John Cale (Velvet Underground) Toby Driver(kayo dot),OM, Daniel Higgs (lungfish), Lichens, and appeared at the Relapse and Furniture record showcases @ the SXSW music festival. . Hes jammed with the Akron Family, Stooges sax man Steve Mackay and his band the Radon Ensemble, Midnight Snake,Michael Zerang,Eugene Robinson(oxbow),Borbetomagus (recording out there somewhere), and teamed up with Mark Solotroff (bloodyminded, recording avail now through bloodlust.) .. .. ..MyGen.. ..Profile Generator..
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BRUCE LAMONT – Upon my very first listen to Feral Songs For The Epic Decline, I realized quickly that Bruce Lamont has created music that is a soundtrack to the inner Metal mind. What is the inner Metal mind you query? Why, it is all of the thoughts, sounds and sensory subtleties that just magically make their unexpected visit, (within my own inner Metal mind), during the course of a day… or two. You see, what Bruce Lamont has created here, is Experimental meets Industrial, coalescing with the progressive and tribal, while colliding with drifting atmospherics… the end result being Bruce’s honest and credible interpretation of what’s likely his real music ideal.
If there is a defining constant I hear throughout Feral Songs For The Epic Decline, it is Bruce’s interpretation of combining so many musical elements and styles together and making them come to a boil with an almost late 70′s progressive trip, while adhering to relevance. I do sense a keen sense of hard versus heavy balance, in regards to what Bruce Lamont has created here, due to my feeling and hearing some conscious restraint of venturing too far into the absolute heavy realm. Refraining from total heaviness comes across smoothly within his music, a more progressive approach provides the balance of musical sounds Bruce so convincingly conveys.
What Bruce Lamont seems to thrive on, is pulling music from across the spectrum, then he takes musical matters into his own imaginative hands and creates unique songs that tantalize with their modernistic genius. Throughout this eclectically put together album of avant-garde amassment, Bruce Lamont stays true to his varied style of putting a song together… the listener should expect the unexpected. Just when there are dreamy moments of Pink Floydian progressive space circulating in The Book Of The Law, don’t be surprised to hear next, a futuristic Wild West sound which connects to an extreme psychosis encounter on Deconstructing Self Destruction.
One Who Stands On The Earth is this album’s epic, at 11:44 long. Bruce’s baritone voice along with his acoustic guitar and background Industrial fuzz combines for a continuum of building this song from it’s foundation. Bruce lends some mysterious chanting, which lends way to his saxophone building a melancholic passage with the assistance of tribal background chants. These background tribal chants give way to and combine with rhythmic tribal drum beats, bringing One Who Stands On The Earth to it’s finish, with a synthetic whirling sound being the final exclamation point. The presence of these sounds, brings about an open atmosphere of near exhilaration.
It is the all encompassing manner of disorder by intention, that makes Bruce Lamont’s songs enthrall me to such a high level of admiration. Where else can one hear or who else can make a saxophone coexist so brilliantly, amidst a flurry of Industrial sounds and an extra-terrestrial musical climate as Bruce accomplishes on Disgruntled Employer? Extraordinary is this song with the inclusion of foggy tribal chants, generating a feeling of what an out of body experience might just feel like.
If you have an open-mindedness of listening to a broad based musical puzzle being put together, with a legion of nuances on steroids, then Feral Songs For The Epic Decline is unquestionably an album for you to absorb. Bruce Lamont created each song, sings and plays all the instruments heard on this album, being his first full length. What more could I appreciate from a solo artist, with such intense vision, than Bruce Lamont?
I’m heralding Bruce Lamont and his album Feral Songs For The Epic Decline, especially during an era when the Rock Music Industry is stagnating from complacency. Bruce Lamont’s musical style is inconsistent with the mainstream norm, obliterating a false mindset that artistic music ingenuity is no longer in vogue. This is my reasoning for admiring what Bruce Lamont has achieved here, which invigorates me to recommend Feral Songs For The Epic Decline to any and all open minded fans of Rock, Progressive and Ambient Music. http://metalodyssey.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/bruce-lamont-feral-songs-for-the-epi...ics-complacency/
Yakuza vocalist/saxophonist Bruce Lamont’s a master collaborator (see Nachtmystium, Locrian, Sigh, Minsk, Brutal Truth, etc.) and records regularly with a number of projects (Bloodiest, Circle Of Animals, Sick Gazelle, the Led Zeppelin cover band Led Zeppelin 2), but his debut solo album Feral Songs For The Epic Decline — a collection that’s truly a one-man project — is his bravest, most personal-seeming and ambitious collection to date. (To these ears it’s more deeply satisfying than the excellent Of Seismic Consequence.) Lamont offers a dark, expansive take on Americana, one you could pair with Erik Wunder’s Dax Riggs-loving Cobalt side project Man’s Gin or, in spirit, the work of Religious To Damn. But it’s more spacious and exploratory, industrial and chilly than those via a heavy use of loops, noise, screaming. Certain tracks — the 12-minute Eastern/Midwestern acoustic drone echo chamber “One Who Stands On The Earth,” the dank helicopter spins of “The Book Of The Law,” the minimalist saxophone repetitions of “Disgruntled Employer,” the Prurient-style power electronics of “Deconstructing Self-Destruction” — pair well with Lamont’s contributions to Chicago shape-shifters (and 2010 favorites) Locrian. Another touchstone would be Angels Of Light, albeit with Michael Gira channeling his angriest Swans’ side. Lamont clearly had a vision here — Feral Songs is an album that should be heard from start to finish, so please do so below. (It’s way too early to start talking about best of 2011 lists, but I’ll put that out there anyhow.) http://stereogum.com/617541/stream-bruce-lamont-feral-songs-for-the-epic-decline-...ting-the-chapel/
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