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Mallet Guitars One

by Ex-Easter Island Head

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‘Mallet Guitars One’ is the debut release by Ex-Easter Island Head; a Liverpool based ensemble comprising on this record of three solid bodied electric guitars and two performers. 

The record is three movements of shimmering drones, ghostly overtones and sustained consonances elicited through gradually changing rhythmic patterns played on the body of horizontally mounted guitars with percussion mallets. Utilising repetition, resonance and amplification, the music of Ex-Easter Island Head is poised between minimalist austerity and sonic density.

Recorded live in the cavernous roof space of a listed neo-classical church, the minutiae of three fixed chords are magnified by the resonant architecture of the building. Overtones are amplified and different timbres generated by changing percussive patterns, an ever changing surface over an unmoving centre.

“Precise and pulsing rhythmic minimalism. The three compositions turn the pure punk three-chord mission statement into an austere neo-classical manifesto." -The Wire

"Somewhere between the minimalist disciplines of Steve Reich and the more avant-garde inclinations of performers such as Bang On A Can or So Percussion…the microtonal discretions of three fixed chords are magnified by the resonant architecture to form an immersive soundscape of latticed timbres and percussive patterning” - Boomkat

“Mallet Guitars One treads the same water as other percussion-driven minimalism: the compositions of Steve Reich, the performances of So Percussion and Tortoise. But Ex-Easter Island Head’s process brings a slightly new color palette to the table. As rich in overtones and musical direction as it is in inventive rhythms, Mallet Guitars One makes for a remarkably varied and texturally intriguing journey.” - Tokafi

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released September 4, 2020

Originally released December 6, 2010 by Low Point records.

Recorded live at St Bride's Church, Liverpool 11th August 2010. 
Written and performed by Benjamin D.Duvall and George Maund. 
Recorded and mixed by Stephen Cole (whatstudio.info)

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Ex-Easter Island Head Liverpool, UK

UK-based quartet composing and performing music for Prepared Electric Guitar, Percussion + other instruments

Mechanical preparations and extended techniques // group interplay and melodic invention through purposely limited means

"Churning pulses, alternate tunings
and dense harmonic worlds...all the strings being heard at once"
- New York Times

"Free flowing genius" - Guardian ... more

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