Charlemagne Palestine & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra - Omminggg and Schlomminggg - 2LP

Important Records presents Omminggg and Schlomminggg, the second release by continuous music pioneer Charlemagne Palestine and Grumbling Fur. Consisting of London based multi-disciplinary artists Daniel O'Sullivan and Alexander Tucker, the Time Machine Orchestra being the extended drone arm of Tucker and O'Sullivan's experimental avant-pop conception. This double LP captures a performance of the trio at Copenhagen's illustrious Jazzhouse in 2016. The pin-drop acoustic clarity of the venue providing an ideal setting for this mesmeric recital of eternal music.

The signature strumming of Palestine's piano augmented by Tucker and O'Sullivan's earthware electronics and processed strings create seamless sonic ripples in a constant state of unfolding. This is perhaps the most demonstrative document of Palestine's powerful vocal delivery - an alien hybrid of sacred music drawing deep from the well of the cantorial synagogue and Hindustani classical styles in a bid to channel inter-dimensional beings from ancient cultures. In some respects this could be thought of as Charlemagne in dub as Grumbling Fur carefully twist and mangle their palette of electrified harp, viola, bowed mandolin, percussion, tapes and voice transformers through chains of loopers resulting in a slowly dilating vapor.

Mixed at O'Sullivan's Dream Lion Studio with gatefold sleeve art by Alexander Tucker and a Grumbling Fur redux/remodel constituting side four, this is a unique document of portal opening music that defies time and space.

Performed by Charlemagne Palestine, Alexander Tucker and Daniel O'Sullivan.
Sides 1-3 Recorded at Jazzhouse, Copenhagen, November 28th 2015; Side 4 GFTMO Redux.
Assembled and mixed by Grumbling Fur. Cut by Matt Colton, Alchemy Mastering, London. Cover art by Alexander Tucker. Inside art by Daniel O'Sullivan

Thanks and praise to Andreas Korsgaard Rasmussen, Klaus Hedegård Nielsen, Mark Titchner, Zoe Miller and Aude Stoclet.