Fatcat Rec.
Our Brother the Native : Make Amends for we are merely Vessels (US,2008)**°
With this young trio’s new release, they have made a rather consistent album, based upon a organic ambient moody tripiness, built with a fundament of stretched guitars mostly on the edge of feedback effects, and a bit of filmic ambience, with textures of piano or keyboards, but also with the re-appearances of certain choir-like of vocal arrangements, just like in contemporary / new music. The filmic passages evolve also to some parts with simple minor chords moods, played by guitar. Within this evolving structure, rather emotional moods swell, with two sorts of voices that occur like other instruments : one is sad, as being one with the minor chords, while the other voice shows aggressive throat screaming emotions usually closer to forms of expression in metal or trash, but moodier and with inner needs for certain emotional expressions, while they are dissolved into the background of its stretched landscape. Some of the harmonic choir choruses accompany some of these appearances as well, while bringing these individual cries to a bigger group’s sound context, as one social entity.
Our Brother The Native is John Michael Foss (guitar, drums/percussion, piano, bass), Joshua Bertram (guitar, bowed banjo, sounds/samples, synth, vocals ) and Chaz Knapp (piano, guitar, bass) with guest Kayleen Nilsson on viola.
