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RAMLEH
Confirms Rare January West Coast US Tour Supporting Circular
Time Album; New Video Playing At
Noisey
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Legendary
British noise rock purveyors, RAMLEH, have announced their upcoming US
West Coast tour dates for later this month, as the band makes a rare trip to the
country in support of their latest double-disc album, Circular
Time.
Released in
December via Crucial Blast, Circular Time sees RAMLEH closing a
nearly twenty-year gap since the outfit's last "rock-oriented" album, and
delivering their most intense work since re-emerging in recent years. Now
comprised of founding member Gary Mundy, longtime member Anthony Di Franco, and
new drummer Martyn Watts, the album sees the band returning with nearly two
hours of speaker-shredding, void-gazing psychedelia, pushing the pummeling,
Hawkwindian meltdowns heard on classic '90s-era albums.
RAMLEH
will
now traverse halfway around the globe with a rare run of West Coast US tour
dates this month. On this tour, the band will mix things up with electronic sets
at half of the shows and rock sets at the others. With four performances
currently slated throughout California, RAMLEH will play an electronic
set in Oakland on Wednesday, January 13th, a rock set in San Francisco on
Thursday the 14th, and Los Angeles on Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th - a
rock set at the first and electronic set at the second. Co-headlining all four
of these shows will be Gate, the avant noise rock project from Michael Morely of
famed New Zealand group The Dead C. Stay tuned at the tour event page HERE and view the full list
of confirmed performances below.
A new video
has also been released for Circular Time's sprawling track, "Re-Entry,"
which delivers the song in a dense and demented visual reality. The surrealistic
and seizure-inducing video was edited and directed by Dominic F.
Marceau and saw a recent
premiere through Vice's music channel, Noisey.
View
RAMLEH's "Re-Entry" at THIS
LOCATION, and stream the
entire Circular Time album HERE.
Circular
Time
is available in a six-panel gatefold jacket 2xCD and all digital
outlets through Crucial Blast. The record can be ordered through the label's
website HERE, Bandcamp HERE and iTunes HERE.
RAMLEH
Tour Dates:
1/13/2016
Life
Changing Ministries - Oakland, CA w/ Gate, JFK, Jim Haynes,
Kleistwahr
1/14/2016
Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA w/ Gate, White Pee [info]
1/15/2016
Echoplex - Los Angeles, CA w/ Gate, Hive Mind [info]
1/16/2016
Complex - Los Angeles, CA w/ Gate, Puce Mary, JFK, Gabie Strong, Kleistwahr
[info]
The Quietus
champions RAMLEH'snew album, offering, "Circular Time
is a feast of a reward for those who have been waiting for this incarnation of
RAMLEH to get its moment in the sun: a wild, celebratory, unrelenting
epic of an album that at times..." Brainwashed reviewed the album, including,
"Everything and anything I could have hoped for on a new release from
RAMLEH can be found on Circular Time. The perverse psychedelia,
the motorik rhythms, and the oppressive, noise heavy ambience all appears here,
and hangs strongly with the band's previous records... Without a doubt on my
short list for best albums I have heard this year." Heavy Blog Is Heavy dubbed
the record with a 4/5 review, including, "Circular Times' double album
status is due more to the album's length and the constraints of physical music
mediums. On a thematic level, the album is a strong, consistent project that
tampers with a sonic palette that will generally favor the interest of My
Brother the Wind fans. Expansive passages of Can-esque guitar jamming, thumping
jazz fusion bass lines and careful but poignant drumming stands firm as the core
of RAMLEH's approach, which favors subtle repetition and development in
the vein of Earth's recent output." The Grim Tower's excellent review offers,
"Circular Time is like LSD without the blotter, it can simply take you on
a journey without a real need for chemical substances of any kind; which I would
consider to the be the generalized power of music... for a band that's been
around for almost four decades, they're definitely showing that they've still
got it."
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