Phil Elverum and his longtime buddy and collaborator Arrington de Dionyso are releasing a brand new album. The Washington artists will share Large Opening Mouth on the Floor on August 8 through P.W. Elverum & Solar. Watch a video for the brand new tune “Sand Made From the Outdated Financial institution” and a trailer for the album under.
The brand new music video comes with two all-caps directives: “WATCH IN ULTRA HD IF YOU CAN” and “VOLUME ON MAXIMUM.”
As will as its digital launch, Large Opening Mouth on the Floor shall be pressed onto 1,000 vinyl LPs. The album art work was made by J. Pogue.
Although that is its first launch, the 33-minute album dates again greater than a decade. It was recorded in 2014, and the story stretches again even additional.
“Round 2010 I made this self-playing loud sculpture by connecting an enormous gong (48″) to an enormous subwoofer (2×18″) through a contact mic, a crossover, and a strong amplifier,” Elverum defined on Substack. “I don’t do a lot in addition to discover the frequency the place it needs to resonate infinitely and let it go. I like the chance to stroll away from ‘enjoying a present’ whereas nonetheless enjoying it, and I used to be delighted on the bizarre stuff it does by itself.”
Elverum had his gong sculpture arrange whereas recording Sauna, and he related with Arrington de Dionyso on Might 13, 2014, whereas the latter musician was in Anacortes, Washington. Collectively, at the Unknown, they spent the afternoon improvising, with Elverum adjusting a knob on his sculpture and de Dionyso strolling across the area, enjoying contrabass clarinet and lalove, and utilizing his voice.
The recordings sat untouched for a decade till Elverum recovered them in December 2024 and cut up them into the six songs of Large Opening Mouth on the Floor. After mixing and modifying, the album was mastered by JJ Golden in Ventura, California.
Elverum and de Dionyso return many years. The latter appeared on the 1998 Microphones compilation Assessments. Later, Elverum included his cowl of “Thriller Language,” initially by de Dionyso’s band Outdated Time Relijun, on the 2010 Mount Eerie compilation Music Islands, Vol. 2. Maybe most significantly, we are able to all thank Arrington de Dionyso for importing Elverum’s karaoke efficiency of Lil Wayne and T-Ache’s “Bought Cash” to YouTube.
Remarkably, Large Opening Mouth on the Floor will mark the primary album that Phil Elverum has launched below his given identify. His newest album as Mount Eerie, Night time Palace, got here out final 12 months, and he revived the Microphones, in 2020, for the album Microphones in 2020.
