#Elephant Stone

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The Imajinary, Nameless Everybody In The World by Elephant Stone, live on KEXP

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Mien — Miien (Fuzz Club)

Photo by Bowen Stead

A virtual supergroup, Mien makes a collage of disparate sounds, layering antsy drum rhythms with sinuous bass, floating delicate, heavily reverbed vocals atop everything and stabbing repeatedly with abrupt bursts of guitar. Half trance and half dance, these cuts dream and drone and jitter recalling Stereolab and, most especially, Clinic. “You and I, we belong together, you and I, we go back and forth,” Alex Maas, the singer and bassist borrowed from Black Angels, intones in kicking “Evil People,” and the beat writhes and spasms and touches empty space.

The band Mien took shape when Maas connected with Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dihr, a psychedelicist based in Austin but with roots in the Indian subcontinent. Dihr plays the sitar in Elephant Stone in ways that touch on late-1960s, Beatles-esque trippery. He did the same in early single “Earth Moon,” and you can hear him in on that instrument in opener “Counterbalance,” not all the time but in sporadic bursts. John Mark Lapham of the Earlies is another key factor here; he does the electronic piecing together that aligns far flung remote contributions into cohesive tracks. Add to that Robb Kidd, late of large ensemble funk’s Golden Dawn Arkestra, making rhythms on kit and mallet maestro Thor Harris on additional percussion, and it's quite the groove collective, clanking and thumping and dissolving into lysergic rainbows on the fly.

Some looser, dreamier cuts are interspersed, like looming, synth dominated “Knocking on Your Door,” or slow-mo “Goodnight Georgie”-ish “How Could You Run?” Still the beat-driven bits are the best parts, not just “Counterbalance” and “Evil People,” but slinky, slouchy electro-popping “Silent Golden,” a track that coaxes the hips to swivel and the third eye to blink. It surges, as all these dance-y cuts do, in a sudden upshift around the chorus, obliterating in its way, but still with plenty of air and space. You might flash back to 1990s Primal Scream or the Madchester grooves of a couple years prior, to certain Spiritualized cuts or even, in the flurry of woodwinds, a bit of Sun Ra.  It’s quite good if you can get beyond wishing it were really Clinic. It’s maybe the next best thing.

Jennifer Kelly

[galerymod]

Yes that's it dear bloggers, dear readers and everyone else, the year is in its final throes and is thus in the past, history in which those who live were able to participate.

Wow, what a year 2024 was, there was everything in it: madness, beauty, violence, grief, tragic moments and a lot of loss and also a lot of life and love.

Then let's move on to the next year, 2025, which we will also make history from.

Just do your part to carry the good into the world so that the flag of love and compassion is held high in the darkness.

Thank you for being there.

mod

Or in the sense of thank you for having us.

[rastronomicals]

10:45 AM EST December 29, 2023:

The Stone Roses - "Elephant Stone" From the album The Stone Roses (March 13, 1989)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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New Video: JOVM Mainstays Elephant Stone Share Breezy and Nostalgia-Inducing "Another Year Gone"

New Video: JOVM Mainstays Elephant Stone Share Breezy and Nostalgia-Inducing "Another Year Gone" @elephantstonehq @FuzzClub @NoExitPR @girlieaction @delkin03 @littlecloudrec1 @wally_kempton

2023 has been a busy year for Montréal-based JOVM mainstays Elephant Stone: Earlier this year they released Dawn, Day, Dusk, which featured “Godstar,” and “The Imajinary, Nameless Everybody In The World.” Those two tracks saw the band continuing their narrative journey through crating material that deftly balanced human complexity with introspective themes paired with an evolving sound. They��

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MIEN's Upcoming Album 'MIIEN' Set for April 18 Release via Fuzz Club

MIIEN brings together members of The Black Angels, Elephant Stone, and more Austin-based supergroup MIEN, is scheduled to release their second album, ‘MIIEN‘, on April 18, 2025, through Fuzz Club. The band comprises members from notable groups: Alex Maas of The Black Angels, Rishi Dhir of Elephant Stone, John Mark Lapham of The Earlies, and Robb Kidd of Golden Dawn Arkestra. For more information…

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"Edge Of The Deep Blue Sea" by Elephant Stone https://ift.tt/U3krjB4

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Elephant Stone - Edge Of The Deep Blue Sea

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seems like there’s a hole

in my dreams

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Elephant Stone, EVOLFO, The Abyssmals No Fun Troy Mar 2024

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Elephant Stone - Back Into The Dream LP (Fuzz Club)

When it comes to psychedelic pop, Elephant Stone isn’t just a band; they’re architects of a musical universe that’s as vast and immersive as the cosmos itself. Their latest cosmic journey, “Back Into The Dream,” dropped on February 23rd, 2023, and it’s nothing short of a trip worth taking. Led by the sonic maestro Rishi Dhir, Elephant Stone is one of those bands that continuously introduces you…

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6:27 PM EDT March 31, 2024:

The Stone Roses - "Elephant Stone" From the album The Stone Roses (March 13, 1989)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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New Video: MIEN Shares Menacing and Groovy "Empty Sun"

New Video: MIEN Shares Menacing and Groovy "Empty Sun" @MMMIIIEEENNN @theblackangels @ElephantStoneHQ @TheEarlies @goldendawnARK @FuzzClub @NoExitPR

MIEN is a psych rock super group that features some of the genre’s biggest and most accomplished artists: Elephant Stone‘s Rishi Dihr (bass, guitar, keys)  The Black Angels‘ Alex Maas (vocals, bass, guitar) The Earlies‘ John Mark Lapham (keys, samples, programming)  Golden Dawn Arkestra‘s Robb Kidd (drums)  Since the project’s inception, MIEN has been a confluence of diverse musical…

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MIEN return with MIIEN and new single Empty Sun ahead of UK and EU tour

MIEN Announce Album ‘MIIEN’ and Release New Single ‘Empty Sun’ The psychedelic group MIEN will release their second album, MIIEN, on April 18 through Fuzz Club. The band has also shared a new single, “Empty Sun,” accompanied by a music video. Following the album release, MIEN will embark on a tour across the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. MIEN consists of Alex Maas (The Black Angels),…