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ALP 174CD
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"The Boxhead Ensemble returns with their fourth proper studio album (fifth in sum) since the inception of the Dutch Harbor project in 1996. The collective's leader Michael Krassner (guitar/organ/FX) joins forces with Fred Lonberg-Holm (Vandermark 5, Terminal 4, Valentine Trio) on cello/harmonica, Frank Rosaly (drums) & Jacob Kolar (prepared piano), generating a meditative aura unlike any other. Nocturnes is a like-minded & appropriately gorgeous follow-up to their Two Brothers and Quartets recordings. What began in as an ad-hoc experimental coalition assembled to generate a lost Alaskan film soundtrack has grown into a familiar yet haunting sonic tapestry, perfectly suited to long drives, private moments and unexamined spaces. The Boxhead Ensemble is a self-propelled Flying Dutchman of a group, adrift in an endless sea of inspiration & freedom, conjuring their otherworldly sounds for us, making music that refuses to be tied to any genre, place, or time."
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ALP 136CD
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"America's only possible answer to God Speed You Black Emperor has delivered their fourth proper album ('99s Niagara Falls EP notwithstanding), and a billowing cloud of phantom sensations it is, indeed. On this voyage, the Ensemble consists of leader Michael Krassner (Lofty Pillars), Jessica Billey (SMOG), Michael Colligan (Pillow), Ryan Hembrey (Edith Frost, ex-Pinetop Seven), Glenn Kotche (Wilco, Jim O'Rourke, Loose Fur), Fred Lonberg-Holm (Terminal 4, Brötzmann Tentet, Concertina Wire), and Scott Tuma. An ethereal, drifting work in the spirit of the Dutch Harbor Soundtrack, The Last Place To Go & Two Brothers, Quartets also features music from the Ensemble's contributions to the HBO Film The Smashing Machine. What began in 1996 as an experimental coalition assembled to generate a film soundtrack has long since become a recurring spectral presence in our listening lives. We like to think of the Boxhead Ensemble as a ghost ship, adrift in an endless sea of inspiration & freedom thankfully washing ashore every couple years... conjuring their otherworldly sounds for us, making music that refuses to be tied to any genre, place, or time."
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ALP 126CD
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"The Boxhead Ensemble makes a glorious return after nearly a two-year hiatus, under the direction of Michael Krassner (Lofty Pillars); Two Brothers is their most distinctive & compelling album yet, a modern day meditation on 19th century American musics, circa the Civil War era. Highly detailed acoustic instrumentation dominates the aural landscape, propelled by the bountiful talents of Mick Turner & Jim White (The Dirty Three), Ryan Hembrey (Pinetop Seven), Glenn Kotche (Pinetop Seven/Jim O'Rourke), Fred Lonberg-Holm (Terminal 4), Jeff Parker (Tortoise/Isotope/Tricolor), Scott Tuma (Souled American), Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) & Guillermo Gregorio (Unheard Music Series) An extremely inviting haze emanates quietly from Two Brothers, drawing you further & further into its sonic web."
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ALP 096CD
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Documentation from the Dutch Harbor European film screening tour in 11/97. "The line up continued to evolve throughout the trip; this insured that each night was entirely different, creating a new montage as the images continued to grow and change with the different accompaniments. Performers on the European Screening Tour included Grubbs, Kim, Krassner, Oldham, Rizzo, Vandermark along with Edith Frost, Ryan Hembrey (Pinetop Seven), Jule Pommerleau (Bobby Conn Experience), Scott tuma (Souled American) and Mick Turner & Jim White (Dirty Three). These once-in-a-lifetime combinations of musical talent, venues, circumstances, and certainly the visual stimulation generated by the backdrop of the projected film has resulted in a truly sublime recorded work, totally unique and perhaps even more captivating than the film soundtrack (ATA 085)."
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