Eternal Tapestry

Both words in Eternal Tapestry's name say something about their music, but it's the first that's key. This Portland band's expansive psych rock sounds like it could go on forever, and most of their releases have in fact been culled from longer, open-ended improvisations. The way they slowly build these jams-- adding parts, increasing volume, and cresting in unison-- you get the feeling they're always playing, and their records are just glimpses of an endless stream.For A World Out of Time, Etern…

After the dark conceptual ambience of Beyond the 4th Door, the members of Eternal Tapestry decided the time was right to do an album embracing their live show - blistering psych rock filled with lyrical guitar soloing and a caveman approach to rhythm, an oddly euphoric state where melancholia is blasted by ecstatic noise. Compiled from a variety of sessions at Tapestry Space throughout the spring of 2011 (some of this material first found a home on the two fall tour tapes), this set of so…

Night Gallery III" is the first one to drop from the collaborative efforts of psychedelia power-houses, Sun Araw and Eternal Tapestry. Composed in the heat of SXSW-ian Texas and littered with odes to the Twilight Zone, the upcoming LP of the same name is the result of an improvisational drum circle recorded in one go.  "Night Gallery III" is desert drone that feels cleaner than waking up in the Sahara after a peyote trip left you stranded and asking where the saxophone came from, but sort…

On their Thrill Jockey debut Eternal Tapestry have delivered an album not unlike their epic live shows. Beyond the 4th Door contains long stretches of melodic guitar improvisations, dark brooding songs that slowly build and expand to allow in layers of light. The album was recorded in their home studio and was created by recording more that two hours of material, mostly live, and hand picking what you hold in your hands. There is a free and open nature to their structure creating for the listene…

Kraut-driven psyche-rock heaviness from Portland's Eternal Tapestry delivering their second album for Not Not Fun after 2007's 'Vibrations New Dawn'. These guys sound like an amalgam of Parson Sound, Can, Neu and Wooden Shjips, but you could imagine that they're not even aware of it, as they sound so damn into their groove that's it's just what they do naturally do, like they just picked up instruments, started hitting/strumming/picking at them and this is what came out. Of course, that's not th…

While this trio 1st turned heads w/ their expansive psych/kraut/blues guitar explorations as embodied w/in a series of small run cassette & CDR releases, their 2007 "Mystic Induction" album on Not Not Fun firmly established the band as formidable players worthy of sharing the stage & spotlight w/ such current heads as Wooden Shjips & Kinski. 180g RTI vinyl w/ CD that includes the 2 album tracks & a bonus track.