Ensemble Economique

The darkly evocative Californian soundscapes of Ensemble Economique readies a night of brooding psychedelia.

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Brian Pyle is from California, but in the kind of way Brian Wilson was from California – a bleak, outsider existence at odds with all the sunbaked revelry. At least, that’s what you’d think from his music: unlike The Beach Boys there are certainly no sunny harmonies here to hide the anguish. All the yearning is well and truly surface level: horror soundtrack ambience, agoraphobic soundscapes and eerie digital deterioration. For all we know, behind the gratuitous drones of solitude, Pyle is partying all the time.

Admittedly, on much of his output – and there’s a lot of it, more than fifteen LPs and live recordings released on labels like Not Not Fun since 2008 – there is a cosmic kind of psychedelia washing out the variety of tones on offer. But the overwhelming impression is of oblique cinematic references and an evocative sense of open space.

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