Amen Dunes

Amen Dunes may be the task of Damon McMahon, whose mixture of folk, psychedelia, and atmospherics has attracted comparisons to Roky Erickson, Syd Barrett, Chris Knox, Suicide, and Royal Trux. A Philadelphia indigenous and a previous person in Inouk, McMahon released an record under his very own name, Mansions, in 2006. Afterwards that same calendar year he began documenting as Amen Dunes, sequestering himself within a cabin in the Catskills and setting up music that he hardly ever intended to discharge publicly. He transferred to Beijing in 2007 and documented intermittently, honing a dark, acoustic-based audio. In ’09 2009 Locust Music released his Catskills periods as DIA, and McMahon came back towards the U.S., settling in NY. A full-band edition of Amen Dunes toured the Expresses and Europe in ’09 2009 and 2010. Sacred Bone fragments released the Murder Dull Brain EP, a assortment of music from McMahon’s amount of time in China, this year 2010, and in January of another year McMahon started documenting Amen Dunes’ second record, Through Donkey Jaw, that was released in August 2011. The next calendar year, Amen Dunes came back using the Ethio Addresses 7″, which reworked Ethiopian pop music. The Spoiler, a limited-edition, vinyl-only assortment of parts from 2009 to 2011, found its way to 2013 via McMahon’s Ideal Lives imprint. The merely named Appreciate, which highlighted collaborations with Iceage’s Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Colin Stetson, and associates of Godspeed You! Dark Emperor, premiered in 2014. Early the next year saw the discharge from the Cowboy Worship EP, which McMahon referred to as a friend piece to Like and presented a cover of Tim Buckley’s “Music towards the Siren.”