Ellis Island Sound
Divisions
Inspired by the main flow of their critically revered 2014 Krautrock-meets-Afrobeat longplayer 'Regions', 'Divisions' is another fertile marriage between motorik Mitteleuropapulse and subtropical guitar and percussion textures. This time, however, the emphasis is less on throbbing, Neu!-beat-propelled blow-outs and more on intricate, highly melodic arrangements for guitars, keyboards and tuned percussion, with a spacious sound palette propelled by polyrhythmic marimbas and xylophones and layered with infectious lead lines and choral vocals – the latter sourced by Astor and Sheppard from dusty archive recordings and manipulated into subtle, stirring descants on several tracks.
Tracklisting
- Nothing Is Lost
- Water Library
- Asa Kusa
- Envoi
- Mombassadorf
- Maple Gardens
- Home Time