Azonic to Release Prospect of the Deep Volume One Oct. 27
I guess I’m an easy mark on this one, but yeah, go ahead and sign me up for two massive, side-consuming slabs of experimentalist noise from Blind Idiot God offshoot project Azonic. The Brooklyn-based duo of guitarist Andy Hawkins and percussionist Tim Wyskida — both of whom feature in the aforementioned avant instrumentalists, and the latter of whom also counts Khanate as part of his CV — will issue Prospect of the Deep Volume One via Indivisible Music on Oct. 27 and in addition to the LP, the CD version will include a third, bonus track because, you know, there’s room for such things on the format and all, so what the hell.
No audio from the record yet, but the project seems to have been brewing for a significant amount of time before coming together around Hawkins and Wyskida. The PR wire has more background and info on the release:
NEW ALBUM FROM AZONIC FEATURING BLIND IDIOT GOD FOUNDER ANDY HAWKINS AND TIM WYSKIDA (KHANATE, BIG) TITLED, PROSPECT OF THE DEEP VOLUME ONE, DROPS 10/27/17
Indivisible Music will release the highly anticipated new album by Azonic titled, Prospect Of The Deep Volume One, on Friday, October 27th, 2017. Formats include vinyl LP, CD and digital download. Artwork by Seldon Hunt. The CD includes the bonus track “Voices Of The Drowned.” Azonic is Blind Idiot God (BIG) founder Andy Hawkins on guitars and Tim Wyskida (Khanate, BIG) on timpani, concert bass drum and gong.
During Blind Idiot God rehearsals, Hawkins was inspired by Wyskida’s more improvisational approach to imagine new possibilities for the next Azonic LP. A standard drum set did not lend itself to the long tone music of Azonic, so Hawkins acquired two timpani and a concert bass drum and Wyskida committed to an improvisational duo of guitar and orchestral percussion.
This new material was recorded with Bill Laswell (Motörhead, Herby Hancock, Sly and Robbie, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Method of Defiance, Laurie Anderson, Painkiller, White Zombie, Material, Golden Palaminos) at BC Studio last November. BC Studio (Swans, Sonic Youth, Cop Shoot Cop, Brian Eno, Khanate, Live Skull, Foetus, Dresden Dolls, Ramones, Iggy Pop, John Zorn, Ginger Baker, Material) was selected for its enormous tracking rooms, which are ideal for the high volume, long tone qualities of this music. The recording is highly evocative, rich in tone, focused wide and with an immense scale.
Prospect Of The Deep Volume One includes two side-length pieces, “Oblivion Of The Deep” and “The Argonaut’s Reckoning” on the vinyl LP, and a third bonus piece, “Voices Of The Drowned” on the CD. “Prospect Of The Deep” is a natural progression for Azonic,” guitarist Andy Hawkins explains. “Adding orchestral percussion to the wide angle sonic signature extends depth and the time scale. The result is oceanic in proportion, a relentless power changing the boundaries between states of matter, and the musical landscape itself. It was a long time coming, but the wave has broken.” Tim Wyskida adds “Getting away from a drum kit and behind an old, gargantuan concert bass drum, timpani and gong opened up a wide range of possibilities: longer sustains, lower tones, pitch bending — and they can better withstand a heartless assault.”
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