Glacial

Booking Agent : Ricky Biondetti, Marco Portello & Giorgio Salmoiraghi

Glacial is a unique improvising trio of master musicians who have shared many histories and stages together since 1999.

This trio is a model of collaboration: a powerful theater of sound. Glacial features Tony Buck on drums (from the acclaimed acoustic trio The Necks), Lee Ranaldo on guitar (of Sonic Youth) and David Watson on guitar and bagpipes (collaborator with Yoshi Wada and Phill Niblock). This might read as an impossible combination, until it happens and then is the most natural thing in the world. Glacial is a long running project already at the 25 year mark.

Markedly unrecorded with just one LP released on the Three Lobed label, they have moved at a truly glacial pace towards making a unique blend of ecstatic sound, drones, psychedelia and full-throated exploration.

“Like the best old ESP sides, .. [Glacial].. achieve incantation by their ability to listen and respond via contemplation in motion, without ever sacrificing cohesion for cacophony. There is profound virtuosity of the part of all three conjurers, who spellbind and astonish in the tradition of the heaviest spirits.”

– James Toth, Volcanic Tongue
 

“Glacial’s debut full-length album is a masterpiece in blurring and burning the edges, riding the divide between chaos and melody like a skateboarder gliding on a rail.”

-Marc Masters, Pitchfork
 
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