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GRAILS

Tue 11th May 2010

Miles of Smies presents
GRAILS
 + Guests

Doors 7.30
£10 at WeGotTickets

Grails is an instrumental quartet from Portland, Oregon. Since 2003 guitarist Alex Hall, drummer Emil Amos (Om, Holy Sons, Jandek), guitarist Zak Riles (Harbour, M.Ward) and bassist WIlliam Slater have, over the course of nine albums, patiently developed into a rather radical study in tension and meditation.

From their first two albums 'The Burden Of Hope' and 'Red Light', often compared to the epic grandeur of Dirty Three, 'Black Tar Prophecies Vol 1-3' a series of conceptual LPs revealing the band's fondness for 60's and 70's experimental artists such as Flower Travellin' Band, Faust and Ash Ra Temple, through to 2008's 'Doomsdayer's Holiday', a mix of Middle Eastern psychedelics and mountain-ascending riffs; Grails inhabit a netherworld where virtually all earthly and otherwordly sounds are equally explored to reflect the disparate influences of its members. Black Tar Prophecies 4 and a new full-length LP is due to be released in 2010.

'Grails' Middle European music exudes a dark occult mystery few are capable of achieving. Like some East German ensemble of the early '70s, their heathen Ur-klang combines guitars, banjos, bouzoukis with drums and samples that summon up the Ancients.' Julian Cope, Head Heritage.

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