Mount Eerie

Following the release from the Microphones’ 2003 album, Mount Eerie, Washington state songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer Phil Elverum took that title because the name of his subsequent project, which extended within the searching experience from the Microphones’ music. He founded the label P.W. Elverum and Sunlight Ltd., releasing a set of CD-Rs, Seven New Tracks of Mt. Eerie and Mt. Eerie Dances with Wolves/Wolf Hill Howls on the planet in 2004 before Support Eerie’s debut recording, No Torch, became the label’s 1st official Support Eerie launch in 2005. A Compact disc/LP set having a poster that keeps the record for the world’s largest recording cover, No Torch set the shade for Support Eerie’s additional, intricately packaged produces, that have been prolific; they included The Drums from No Torch, Singers (which presented different vocalists performing Elverum’s tracks), as well as the electronic-tinged 11 Aged Tracks of Support Eerie, which also found its way to 2005. A Microphones solitary, Don’t Smoke cigarettes/Obtain Off the web, and Support Eerie, Pts. 6-7, an image disc and reserve of photos (and sequel towards the Microphones record that started everything), as well as the Latitudes Series providing Black Wooden, had been released in 2007. Released in 2008, the Dark Wooden Ceiling Starting EP presented Elverum’s idea of playing “dark metal with organic components” and highlighted a different edition of “Don’t Smoke cigarettes.” Afterwards that calendar year, the concert DVD Fog Films Live along with a divide single without Children preceded Lost Intelligence, a cooperation with Eric’s Trip and Damaged Girl vocalist Julie Doiron and guitarist Fred Squire. Dawn, a journal/Compact disc set created during Elverum’s stay static in Norway in past due 2002/early 2003, found its way to springtime 2009, while a full-length of fresh materials, the ambient and dark metal-inspired Wind’s Poem, premiered that summer season. Elverum taken care of the flurry of activity with White colored Stag, a CD-R documented in Portland, Oregon, and 2010’s singles compilation Music Islands, Vol. 2. Support Eerie resurfaced in 2012 having a two-album idea project: Very clear Moon, that was recorded inside a de-sanctified chapel, arrived in Might, while Sea Roar adopted that Sept. Reside in Bloomington, Sept 30th, 2011, which presented radically reworked variations of Wind’s Poem and Very clear Moon songs, found its way to middle-2013. Elverum released another group of versions of the tracks with Pre-Human Concepts in November of this yr. In 2014, he debuted fresh Mount Eerie tracks while on tour; those tracks ultimately became 2015’s Sauna, a mainly contemplative recording about “Vikings and zen and true to life.” That yr, Elverum and his wife, musician/illustrator Geneviève Castrée of Woelv and Ô Paon, found that Castrée got stage four pancreatic tumor after having a baby to their girl. Castrée passed away in July 2016, and 8 weeks later, Elverum started writing and documenting tracks in her work area with her tools. The results had been 2017’s A Crow Viewed Me, a sparse, cathartic established motivated by his period with Castrée in addition to her death.