Powers (Campbell Kneale)
Ninth Powers
Sunset Temples (New Zealand) SUNSETTEMPLES_09
[NOTE: LIMITED to 100 COPIES!!! Sorry for the high price, but the nature of low runs and shipping from NZ were killer. ]
Sunset Temples proudly presents 'NINTH POWERS', the debut LP release by the latest incarnation of the Campbell Kneale sound universe, POWERS. Taking its cues from a palette as diverse as lo-fi bedroom psychedelia, raw black metal, lost new age cassettes, and Jimi Hendrix' most terroristic moments, 'Ninth Powers' locates itself within the most defiant, devastating and frankly 'far-out' corners of the solo-guitar space. The entire POWERS manifesto can be stated in its entirety: 'A guitar. At volume. At length.' What manifests under this seemingly dogmatic, minimalist strategy is a fireball of incredible nuance, and black hole level density. The sound of the outer solar system devouring itself. For fans of fearless music.
POWERS is the current incarnation of CAMPBELL KNEALE who has ping-ponged about the nether regions of interstellar sound for close to thirty earth-years aboard sonic spacecraft such as BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, BLACK BONED ANGEL, and OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD.
Known primarily as the captain of his own creaking ship, CAMPBELL KNEALE has also collaborated and performed with some of outsider music’s most defiant and diverse experimentalists.
Whereas the vast majority of Kneales music revolves around the fastidious manipulation of the multitracking process, POWERS pounds on the thin cracking ice of an ‘everything-all-at once’ mindset, performing and recording his immersive blitzkrieg ragas entirely in the moment, walking the tightrope between triumph and humiliation, daring the ground beneath his feet to splinter and collapse in harmful fractals of fire and smoke. Inspired by ’60s New York loft minimalism, ’70s Kosmische synth, ‘80s No Wave, ’90s Scandinavian black metal demos, and ’00s Japanoise, POWERS pushes everything to transcendental, excoriating, and stroboscopic extremes. Impossibly dense, defiantly raw, and utterly hypnotic, POWERS sets the controls for the heart of a freezing black sun... unfurling the unfathomable with occultic, apocalyptic sound. Carnivorous psychedelia.
This LP also represents the first LP release from SUNSET TEMPLES, the divine mothership from whence all the blackest blessings shall be granted.
POWERS is the current incarnation of CAMPBELL KNEALE who has ping-ponged about the nether regions of interstellar sound for close to thirty earth-years aboard sonic spacecraft such as BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, BLACK BONED ANGEL, and OUR LOVE WILL DESTROY THE WORLD.
Known primarily as the captain of his own creaking ship, CAMPBELL KNEALE has also collaborated and performed with some of outsider music’s most defiant and diverse experimentalists.
Whereas the vast majority of Kneales music revolves around the fastidious manipulation of the multitracking process, POWERS pounds on the thin cracking ice of an ‘everything-all-at once’ mindset, performing and recording his immersive blitzkrieg ragas entirely in the moment, walking the tightrope between triumph and humiliation, daring the ground beneath his feet to splinter and collapse in harmful fractals of fire and smoke. Inspired by ’60s New York loft minimalism, ’70s Kosmische synth, ‘80s No Wave, ’90s Scandinavian black metal demos, and ’00s Japanoise, POWERS pushes everything to transcendental, excoriating, and stroboscopic extremes. Impossibly dense, defiantly raw, and utterly hypnotic, POWERS sets the controls for the heart of a freezing black sun... unfurling the unfathomable with occultic, apocalyptic sound. Carnivorous psychedelia.
This LP also represents the first LP release from SUNSET TEMPLES, the divine mothership from whence all the blackest blessings shall be granted.
CAMPBELL KNEALE
a guitar . at volume . at length
a guitar . at volume . at length
