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Showing posts with label 432hz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 432hz. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Live @ the Minack - credits trailer
...COMING SOON on DVD...
...LIVE @ the MINACK...
...starring the ASCENSION plan...
...with Special Guest Star - Mimi Goese...
...featuring the angelic voices of the 50 Degrees...
...with soundscapes by Axolotl...
...and live projections by Paul Lewin...
Review by Lucy Cooper
THE MINACK'S dramatic setting, open to the elements, with a jaw-dropping backdrop of sea and sky, provided the ideal launch pad for a night of epic and ethereal sounds from Penwith-based band The Ascension Plan and special guests.
On Friday, May 2, hundreds gathered on the cliffs at Porthcurno to witness the four-piece band join forces with New York singer Mimi Goese, of 1980s cult American band Hugo Largo, and Penzance choir the 50 Degrees.
The night marked what the band call, "the completion of a curious circle". The circle began back in the 1990s with Quietly Torn, the band started by The Cure's Porl Thompson when he moved to Zennor.
When Mimi Goese, the band's original singer, left – homeward bound for New York – Thompson recruited St Just guitarist and singer Martin Jackson, then 16 years old. On a May evening in 1998 Martin took to the Minack stage to play a memorable gig with Quietly Torn.
Martin went on to form The Ascension Plan with Quietly Torn drummer Nick McLeod, bassist Mungo Shoddy and former Bates Motel man Paul Adams on electric violin.
In 2012, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, Nick McLeod (who also plays with The Incredible String Band's Clive Palmer) and Mimi Goese began to hatch a plan.
This resulted in Mimi's collaboration with the band on a number of tracks, including Ascending, from their All Ways EP, and forthcoming singles Buoy and Life (You Are).
Ultimately, it led back to the Minack and the wild Cornish cliffs on a May evening in 2014, bringing Mimi and Martin together to share the stage for the first time.
The result was an evening that managed to pull off the feat of being both intimate and epic.
Axolotl set the tone with an introductory soundscape that melded with the waves and the wind. Building from womb-like gongs and elemental murmuring, The Ascension Plan's sound swelled into celestial flights of liquid violin melting into out of this world vocals, transporting the listener to realms at once familiar, strange and beguiling.
With years of collective musical experience under their belts, the band moved together effortlessly through the haunting waltzing chorus of Old Wings, via the alternating swing and raw power of Disengage (and Remain The Same), the ethereal Ascending and meditative All Ways. Mimi Goese brought her extraordinary and formidable vocals into the equation – which can also be heard on Moby's Into The Blue and When It's Cold I'd Like To Die – bringing theatrical flair and sparkle to the stage along with her trademark vocal acrobatics.
Adding the vocal harmonies of the 50 Degrees choir into the mix, under the skilled direction of Vicky Abbott, sent beautiful, fluid, yet precisely aligned harmonies rushing across the Cornish skies.
"The sky and sea stitched seamlessly," Mimi sings on the forthcoming single Life, (You Are). As the daylight faded, sea and sky vanished into one another and the stage was bathed in a dance of colours, courtesy of projections by renowned local artist Paul Lewin.
Sky, sea, music and light stitched seamlessly into a mesmerising fabric, entrancing the senses. The resulting frisson carried echoes of Sigur Ros at the Eden Sessions.
Maybe it's the tuning, the band tune their instruments to a pitch of 432HZ – said to be the natural universal frequency – rather than the standard concert pitch of 440HZ. Maybe it's the combined power of more than 50 voices. Or maybe it's just that special something that ignites when a plan comes together beautifully.
Whatever the secret, this will be remembered as a night when magic was made, when The Ascension Plan unfolded their wings and took flight with Mimi Goese and the 50 Degrees.
Nicholas Pegg – author of the acclaimed Complete David Bowie series of books as well as a regular Dalek operator on Dr Who – was on holiday in the area and attended the concert. He tweeted: "One of the best gigs I've ever seen."
...this trailer features the credits for the show along with the studio version of Disengage (and remain the same), which is on the band's EP, available here - https://theascensionplan1.bandcamp.com/
On Friday, May 2, hundreds gathered on the cliffs at Porthcurno to witness the four-piece band join forces with New York singer Mimi Goese, of 1980s cult American band Hugo Largo, and Penzance choir the 50 Degrees.
The night marked what the band call, "the completion of a curious circle". The circle began back in the 1990s with Quietly Torn, the band started by The Cure's Porl Thompson when he moved to Zennor.
When Mimi Goese, the band's original singer, left – homeward bound for New York – Thompson recruited St Just guitarist and singer Martin Jackson, then 16 years old. On a May evening in 1998 Martin took to the Minack stage to play a memorable gig with Quietly Torn.
Martin went on to form The Ascension Plan with Quietly Torn drummer Nick McLeod, bassist Mungo Shoddy and former Bates Motel man Paul Adams on electric violin.
In 2012, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, Nick McLeod (who also plays with The Incredible String Band's Clive Palmer) and Mimi Goese began to hatch a plan.
This resulted in Mimi's collaboration with the band on a number of tracks, including Ascending, from their All Ways EP, and forthcoming singles Buoy and Life (You Are).
Ultimately, it led back to the Minack and the wild Cornish cliffs on a May evening in 2014, bringing Mimi and Martin together to share the stage for the first time.
The result was an evening that managed to pull off the feat of being both intimate and epic.
Axolotl set the tone with an introductory soundscape that melded with the waves and the wind. Building from womb-like gongs and elemental murmuring, The Ascension Plan's sound swelled into celestial flights of liquid violin melting into out of this world vocals, transporting the listener to realms at once familiar, strange and beguiling.
With years of collective musical experience under their belts, the band moved together effortlessly through the haunting waltzing chorus of Old Wings, via the alternating swing and raw power of Disengage (and Remain The Same), the ethereal Ascending and meditative All Ways. Mimi Goese brought her extraordinary and formidable vocals into the equation – which can also be heard on Moby's Into The Blue and When It's Cold I'd Like To Die – bringing theatrical flair and sparkle to the stage along with her trademark vocal acrobatics.
Adding the vocal harmonies of the 50 Degrees choir into the mix, under the skilled direction of Vicky Abbott, sent beautiful, fluid, yet precisely aligned harmonies rushing across the Cornish skies.
"The sky and sea stitched seamlessly," Mimi sings on the forthcoming single Life, (You Are). As the daylight faded, sea and sky vanished into one another and the stage was bathed in a dance of colours, courtesy of projections by renowned local artist Paul Lewin.
Sky, sea, music and light stitched seamlessly into a mesmerising fabric, entrancing the senses. The resulting frisson carried echoes of Sigur Ros at the Eden Sessions.
Maybe it's the tuning, the band tune their instruments to a pitch of 432HZ – said to be the natural universal frequency – rather than the standard concert pitch of 440HZ. Maybe it's the combined power of more than 50 voices. Or maybe it's just that special something that ignites when a plan comes together beautifully.
Whatever the secret, this will be remembered as a night when magic was made, when The Ascension Plan unfolded their wings and took flight with Mimi Goese and the 50 Degrees.
Nicholas Pegg – author of the acclaimed Complete David Bowie series of books as well as a regular Dalek operator on Dr Who – was on holiday in the area and attended the concert. He tweeted: "One of the best gigs I've ever seen."
...this trailer features the credits for the show along with the studio version of Disengage (and remain the same), which is on the band's EP, available here - https://theascensionplan1.bandcamp.com/
Friday, 13 June 2014
Life, You Are (demo)
...the inimitable Mimi Goese joins Cornish band the Ascension plan for international collaboration - Life, You Are, in 432hz...
Head of a pin, a pin in the map of where you are and where you will be
The mountain is salty
The sea is moss green
Ferocious bloom of the racing sun falls
To slate sky then wolf moon
Airplane trails sew a fabric of your day to my night with color
Woven tug of war
Locked in a woven tug of war
In you eye lives a cluster star nebula
Where I dive leagues under your skin
Molecules hair breath and muscles fused
Loose stone soft earth voice with color
Collide Collide
There are mysteries out here
Collide Collide Collide
The sea and sky stitched seamlessly
Collide
The sea and sky collide
There are mysteries out here
Collide
The sea and sky woven in a tug of war
Molecules hair breath and muscles fused
Collide
The sea and sky
Loose stone soft earth
Molecules hair breath and muscles fused
The sea and sky
Life you are a delicate spec
You are a delicate spectacular
Tuesday, 1 April 2014
ascending
...a song about life and death, fresh from the All Ways EP sessions (NOW available HERE - theascensionplan1.bandcamp.com/album/all-ways-ep),
backing vocals by the inimitable Mimi Goese. Escher-inspired video
featuring stunning animations of Ascending/Descending by SirGagarin and
Relativity by Keltoi...
Lay downTo breathe
A long time
To sigh
Open the roof
I want to see
Chasing the sound
Taken in
Ascending
Pull me up
Make it so
You don't move
Hold still
Open the roof
I want to see
Chasing the sound
Taken in
Ascending...
Scream for life
Ache for the light...
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Old Wings
Old Wings - the Ascension plan from mungo shoddy on Vimeo.
...this final track from the immanent Ascending EP, takes a waltz through Metropolis with Busby and Cab...
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Disengage
the Ascension plan - Disengage (and remain the same) from mungo shoddy on Vimeo.
...from the forthcoming, eagerly anticipated, Ascending EP, a swinging 5 beat, in 432hz...
must i chase
all the lines from my face
there's a price
on the one who waits
break the time
into fragments of mind
disengage and remain the same
all i see is the sun
i could be on fire...
frame by frame
i will crawl through the rain
i'll become
what i said i saw
hurts the brain
we're the fracturing of thought
disengage and remain in awe
all i see is the sun
i could be on fire...
Sunday, 26 January 2014
All Ways
All Ways from mungo shoddy on Vimeo.
...from the forthcoming EP, a meditation in 9...
It's time to change all the colours
It's time to check all directions
Without somewhere to go
There's no reason to stay here
I will walk to you from all ways
All ways...
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Friday, 22 February 2013
Monday, 3 December 2012
Disengage (and remain the same)
...here's the latest video from the plan, a solar meditation on a free wheeling five beat groove...
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Inside a Picture
...pheaturing the phantastical photography of brother Dom Buzzard, the song is produced by Paul Wheeler with a coda fresh from the attic sessions...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Escher Eyes
...second in a series of trilogies, this film features the Ascension Plan in Real Life, Ascending and Morphose...
Friday, 1 June 2012
real life
...fresh from the attic demo sessions, this video features footage of the 2010 lunar epoch-eclipse photographed by William Castleman and another wonderful piece of Escher based animation by youtube user connerche...
Sunday, 15 April 2012
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