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The line-up of Sun Falling is P.

Emerson Williams on guitars,


bass, vocals and sound design, Jarboe on vocals and sound
design and Pandora on drums/percussion. The tracks are:

1 Sun Falling
2 Atmospheric Conditions
3 Dust Storm
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SUN FALLING is a ritual incantation with singing, chanting and vocalizing. The track
erupts with galloping rhythms in an industrial landscape of droning guitars. An
isolated voice enters first with plaintive calls of mother, and then the vocals burst
forth in fury in the form of a triad: stentorian singing in low contralto, fervent chanting
and high-pitched rhapsodic ululations. Their interactions with one another and the
brutal beats kindle percussive and harmonic forces that generate turbulent rhythmic
versus intricate countermelodic responses. This results in a tempest of fine raiment,
an exaltation in waves of ecstasy beyond description. The ecstatic culmination of the
ritual is one of Jarboes most powerful performances on record. With the passion
spent, the sounds recede and silence ensues momentarily until an a cappella coda
returns to reiterate the theme. The extremes probed here make even the intensities
of Swans, Jarboes ex-band, pale by comparison.

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ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS
Jarboes wistful recital adds a mystic touch to this funky groove that is more
Laswellian than tribal or industrial in texture.

Opening with the countdown 1-2-3 and followed by a series of Middle Eastern
wails, the music unfolds in swinging and swaying polyrhythms caressed by vocal
harmonies. At about six minutes the dreamy recital begins:

Were heading to the ocean shores / the ships are waiting for us / we can see them in the
distance welcoming arms and kisses to survive and then to flourish return to our lands
and loved ones weve missed blue skies grey skies, this is the sadness we have twisted
weird skies black nights

and continues for a while to be heard, but submerged by the rhythms, the words
cannot be discerned. When the final whisper has faded, about ten minutes into the
music, silence smites the drumbeats first and then the percolating percussion,
leaving only hisses of static and desolate wails.

The eerie spell is broken by the soft, insistent summons of an echo drum. One by
one the sounds stagger back, gain strength and surge to resume their lilting course
through ever stranger realms where spectral choirs issue from the depths to murmur
momentarily, rising and falling like crests and troughs in the waves of one sea.

This entrancing piece reminds me of other paths and places explored by Jarboe, like
the cavernous spaces of DaksinaKali, the subtle atmospheres of Durga And Her
Smile Of Radiant Vengeance and The Body Lovers journey through the
dreamscapes.

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DUST STORM
An ominous howl warns of the approaching Dust Storm, for which the term
darkwave must have been invented. However, its so overwhelming and so utterly
alien that it could not represent even the most violent dust storm on earth. This
cataclysm takes place on a cosmic scale where solar winds collide with the death
rays of collapsing stars and huge black holes annihilate entire solar systems.

Droning thunder, squalls of distortion, rumbles of foreboding, howling gales, searing


chimes and their echoes meld or alternate with the lamentations of all who ever
lived. As the fundamental forces disintegrate, primordial powers are unleashed and
the agony of the universe shakes the space-time continuum.

Dust Storm is a truly monstrous piece of the darkest unlight of ambient industrial,
cleverly crafted to convey the sensation of chtonic forces, uncountable aeons and
unimaginably vast spaces, and equipped with resonances to revive the ancient
memory of awe, mystery and wonder.

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Besides Veil of Thorns, the multimedia artist and musician P. Emerson Williams is
involved with the bands Kkoagulaa and Choronzon.
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Jarboe was a member of Swans and (The World of) Skin and her numerous
collaborations include Beautiful People Ltd., Blackmouth and The Body Lovers.

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LINKS
http://digital.panicmachine.com/album/sun-falling
http://ghgumman.blogg.se/2014/august/interview-with-veil-of-thorns.html
www.allmusic.com/artist/veil-of-thorns-mn0000489178
www.discogs.com/Veil-Of-Thorns-Feat-Jarboe-Sun-Falling/release/9618855
www.electroracle.com/release/sun-falling-feat-jarboe/
www.facebook.com/Veil.of.Thorns/
www.intravenousmag.co.uk/2015/06/review-veil-of-thorns-feat-jarboe-sun.html
www.thelivingjarboe.com
www.mythosmedia.net/post/157043798537/veil-of-thorns-para-abnormal
www.veilofthorns.com

Jarboe & P. Emerson Williams - Live at St. Leonard's Church London (November 2013)
Pic: YouTue screenshot.
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www.thelivingjarboe.com/2016/11/04/london-p-emerson-williams/
red silk dress by Ovate

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