EVENING FIRES - Upstream from Limbo

from Client Samples by Benjamin Wentz

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From the album "Medicine Man"
Released on the Deep Water Acres Label
www.dwacres.com/node/2493

A friend recently described Evening Fires' music as sounding as though Krautrock came from the Appalachians; to be honest, we weren't really sure what he meant at first, since it's hard to pinpoint any obvious influences. There are definitely some shared creative techniques though - hypnotic repetition, free improvisation, communal folk trance, devotional electronics, periodic noise overload, psychedelic production flourishes - and in EF's case it's all processed via a group mind rooted deep in the eastern hardwood forest, so I guess he was probably onto something after all. The eighth Evening Fires release, Medicine Man was brewed up in the midst of troubled times (personal and worldly) in the first part of 2010, from elements created over the preceding several years, with the larger goal of what my alchemist buddies used to call "compounding the elixir" - transcendence via distillation, y'know. As such, it features an expanded roster (eleven contributors from various phases of the group's existence) and a more elaborate exploration of the studio as instrument, with dense and trippy arrangements creating a surreal sonic landscape in multilevel motion, resulting (paradoxically) in both their most experimental and most accessible release yet. Seven tracks, 57 minutes.
www.discogs.com/Evening-Fires-Medicine-Man/release/2802847

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from Client Samples, track released September 11, 2010
engineered and mastered by Ben Wentz
mixed by Ben Wentz and Kevin Moist

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Benjamin Wentz State College

A/V engineer and multi-instrumentalist based out of central PA. Currently serving as the senior tech supervisor at the historic State Theatre in downtown State College.

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