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Twenty​-​Two Strings

by Ex-Easter Island Head

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Four Guitars 02:24
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Ten Bells 03:40
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Two Coins 03:00
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Six Sticks 05:31

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Following on from the critically acclaimed Mallet Guitars trilogy (2010-13) and Large Electric Ensemble (2014) and honed across high profile live appearances including the Stewart Lee curated ATP, Liverpool Psych Fest and the Edinburgh Fringe, Twenty-Two Strings is the fifth album from UK-based experimental trio Ex-Easter Island Head.

Utilising horizontally-laid electric guitars and bass, the group continue to develop their own distinctive musical language, eschewing digital processing and effects for a vocabulary of mechanical preparations and extended techniques, creating a sound drawing on minimalism, gamelan and process music. 

Their most complex and focused release yet, Twenty Two Strings finds the group refining their overtone-rich string explorations around a skeleton of tuned bells and drums, bringing a new propulsive momentum to the group’s goal of “an ever changing surface over an unmoving centre”.

Across these seven pieces, Ex-Easter Island Head push the boundaries of their intentionally restrained set-up, balancing austere physicality with luminescent abstraction to create a bold summation of the group's work to date.

credits

released September 4, 2020

Originally released by Low Point records, August 5, 2016

Written and performed by Ex-Easter Island Head:

Benjamin D. Duvall
Benjamin Fair
Jonathan Hering

Recorded by Chris Taylor at Parr Street Studio 2, Liverpool with the kind assistance of Merseyside Arts Foundation

Produced and mixed by James Rand

Mastered by Taylor Deupree at 12K mastering

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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
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