Tag Archives: Emil Amos

Instrumental rock-band Grails began in Portland, Oregon in 1999 like a bedroom project never designed for the stage. Primarily comprising Alex J. Hall and Paul Spitz on acoustic guitar, Emil Amos (also of Holy Sons) on drums and acoustic guitar, Timothy Horner on violin, and William Slater on bass and …

Lilacs & Champagne is a side task begun in the first 2010s by Alex Hall and Emil Amos, founding associates of Portland, Oregon experimental instrumentalists Grails. Functioning mainly with an Akai MPC sampler, they forged their audio with a bottom of eclectic examples from off-kilter resources such as for example …

The sparingly named Om reunites the oft-heralded Rest rhythm portion of Al Cisneros (bass, vocals) and Chris Haikus (drums); but this time around, rather than making monolithic stoner/doom steel, the duo is targeted on the softer, if believe it or not hypnotic make of drone rock and roll, partially infused …