May 1, 2010 Released 23rd March 2009 on CD and Download.
Its been a busy few months for the Gilliam Section; we've been working the media and social networks garnering interest in our latest CD, which we're very proud of. The album is available for order here on our site, as well as Waterloo Records (Austin) and Hogwild (San Antonio).
Will has a guest appearance playing some really incredible guitar on Gary Davenport's exciting new CD "Wonder Slips Away" released April 13 on the Muse Myth label: http://www.musemyth.com/fr_intro.cfm
Meanwhile, writing continues for the new Johnny Love album as well as recording at the Man Cave on the next alchemical/ambient album.
We're also really pleased to announce that Will is busy mastering two new CDs available on Habitual Grace in May from our friend and fellow artist/musician, Gerald Benesch, "Soundtracks for Imaginary Westerns" and "Music for Spaces", each work a unique and distinctive addition to our catalogue.
Gerald describes "Imaginary Westerns" as... "if the original soundtracks for 'Rio Bravo' and 'Paris, Texas' had been abducted by Aliens, newly orchestrated somewhere near Orion and beamed back to earth via the illegal alien antennas of an Austrian cowboy!"
while the beautiful "Music for Spaces" is described thusly: "when you mix the concept of Brian Eno's ambient-series with a little Debussy played by an Austrian wunderkind assisted by his burmese grandfather and an electronic cousin on Prozac you end up with the soothing effects of this calm album"
Look for these gems available in May, 2010!
Febuary 11 2010
Final edits, artwork done and the new self-titled The Gilliam Section follow-album on Habitual Grace Records and Tapes is now completed! The Gilliam Section is proud to announce the arrival of the follow-up CD to "Solus"; the new (self-titled CD) on Habitual Grace Records and Tapes features 71 minutes of aural goodness and is now available through Kunaki, Hogwild Records (San Antonio) and Waterloo Records in Austin, Texas.
Click here for track listing or to order today:
http://Kunaki.com/Sales.asp?PID=PX00ZGVSW8
Solus by The Gilliam Section
The Gilliam Section is a Texas based avant-rock band. They fuse ambient music and ethno-beats within rock structures with and provide an adventurous, improvisational, abstract sound.
The title of their latest album "Solus", reflects their exploration and interest in sonic collage, found sounds, soundscapes and, non-traditonal song forms and non-sequiturs.
"Solus" opens with the thematic soundscape, "Habitual", which percolates over a bed of multi-tracked guitar-swells. Later, on the dynamic "Landscape", Willard and Marcell trade guitar signatures and stick modalities with a skittering rhythm section,whilst "Trumle" and "Solus" move trumblingly from a minimalist groove, to a coda ("Habitual Grace")... a meditation of guitar picking par excellence.
These sonic soundscapes are a feature of "Solus", culled from different recordings at different venues (mostly the homes of the musicians themselves!) the album is as sonically varied as it is stylistically - a subterranean jam oozes out of an urban field.
In short, "Solus" is a restless explosion of concepts and ideas with roots in post-punk, free improvisation and 70's German experimentalism - a layered album of hidden depths that rewards repeated playing- its obliquities balanced by solid songwriting and adventurous musicianship.
The Gilliam Section is
Will Willard (bass, engineering, Guitar, Stick, Lap Steel, Keys/Synth, Loops/Samples,
Hardware, Software, Nowhere, Nokia i570) has played guitar and bass with countless bands since 1982 including Entropics, Red Square, Paul is Dead, Sparky the Mailman and Jack Acid.
John Marcell (NST Guitars, Loops, Effects, bass, piano, Tape Noise, Technical Ops of a Liberal Variety, Occasional Silence, and other instruments) has spent the last thirty years working with notable groups such as Entropics, Pulsating Love Flower, Debris,and Paul is Dead encompassing the sort of experimentalism and noise that he now gives vent to in The Gilliam Section.
Other Contributors include
Robert Scott Potter (Drums), Tony Garza (NST Guitars), Sylvie Walder (Piano, Keyboards, Field Recordings), Moon (Welson Globetrotter Organ, Synth, Bass), Eva Di Orio (Vox), Alessandra Celletti (Piano), James H. Sidlo (Baritone Guitar, Loops & Processing), Hyperbubble (Beats/Loops), Alan Van Dyke (Prayer Flags), R. Linn (Guitar, Effects)
Habitual Grace Recordings
contact
johnnylove@gmail.com
