The North Sea & Rameses III — Night Of The Ankou (TYPE012)
- When
- Jun 2006
This is a release on Type Records, the label I co-founded with John Xela. John was responsible for its musical output; I contributed in the first few years on design and running the label. The catalogue is archived here for posterity.
Night of the Ankou is an immense collaboration between London based psychedelic-ambient three piece Rameses III and Tulsa's finest free folk rebel Brad Rose aka The North Sea. The two acts have never actually met in person — instead they worked by re-moulding each other's tracks, working their own ideas into the skeletons of the other, and the result is mesmerising.
Opening track 'Death of the Ankou' is a hypnotic journey into the instrumental ambience explored by such acts as Popol Vuh or Stars of the Lid, and the disc is polished off by a remix from Type Records boss Xela. This may be Type's first foray into the weird world of psychedelic folk music, but it is a match made in heaven.
Made at Type.
Around the same time
- Svarte Greiner — KniveMusic · 2006
- Xela — The Dead SeaMusic · 2006
- Ryan TeagueWriting · 2006
- Channel 4 IdeasFactory / Nesta - “Photo Finish”Writing · 2006
Earlier in music: Sickoakes — Seawards. Later in music: Helios — Eingya.