Tweet Common Eider, King Eider - "They Want To Dig For Gold But All They Will Find Is Blood (Cell Phone Mix)" On January 10th, Gregory Hagan of local experimental rock band Common Eider, King Eider was shot in an attempted mugging as he walked to a music class in Oakland. As Gregory wrote on the band's blog, it was a scary situation that left him with a seriously injured foot and financial uncertainties. [...]
The only way to follow up a night in which you stumble into bed at 3:30 in the morning is to stumble into bed at 4:30 in the morning. It's been a long weekend, folks, and all the over-the-counter pseudoephedrine in the world couldn't keep me from crashing before my work-day ended. I was a busy bee, productive as all hell until about 90 minutes before my shift ended. Then I totally crashed and couldn't function any more. I was so anxious to get out and go home that I left without my computer. Good thing Nicci doesn't [...]
Rob Fisk has always been a master of bleak landscapes, certainly with his ensemble 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, but more recently so with Common Eider, King Eider. Following up one beautifully crafted Root Strata release with another, this time he's fleshed the band out to a four piece and it couldn't sound more disarmingly beautiful. The pieces hum and crackle like the final throes of frostbite creeping across the tundra. Add in contributions from Grouper's Liz Harris and Charalambides' Tom Carter and this begins to shape up into one very well chiseled piece of subtle doom. Download: [...]
Common Eider, King Eider - "Talking Ravens, Rotting Figs" via Raven Sings the Blues Top-notch bill of Bay Area experimental rock bands at Amnesia this Thursday night (9pm, $7). Common Eider, King Eider (ex-7 Year Rabbit Cycle) headlines the show, which doubles as a release party for a new split tape from Oakland duo Raccoons and Hiss & Hum . Das Blut and Marigold Crowns also perform.
Badgerlore/7 Year Rabbit Cycle's Rob Fisk packed up and moved to Alaska last year and the isolated recording sessions netted the first CE, KI release. Back with another installment under his aviary pseudonym, this album delves deeper into the isolated expanses of tundra and chill. Ever the diviner of loneliness, you can practically feel the isolation in every note of Figs, Wasps, And Monotremes . Fisk blends echoing fields of tone with somber strings and his ghostly falsetto vocals to create a world that feels lost in a blinding emotional storm. The aftermath of said storm is both hauntingly [...]
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