Described as a “musical poem”, Mount Analogue is a lengthy meditation on the works of avant-garde poet and writer René Daumal that’s passed from Bill Laswell and P.St (plus an ensemble featuring Nils Petter Movaer, Anna Clementi, Hideo Yamaki and others) to guitarist Henry Kaiser.
Mount Analogue is named after Daumel’s most well-known book, the self-styled “Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing” that emerged almost a decade after his early death at just 36 in 1944. That text is excerpted here on the album-length title composition, that Czech experimental sort P.St leads on electronics alongside Laswell, Kaiser, vocalists Clementi and Percy Howard, percussionist Yamaki, cornet player…

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