Ivan The Tolerable And His Elastic Band - Rations
Ivan The Tolerable And His Elastic Band - Rations
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‘Rations’ is Oli Heffernan's twentieth album in 7 years as Ivan The Tolerable, now the main vehicle for his hallucinatory basement outpourings since the dissolution of the beloved Year Of Birds. After a constant flow of releases on labels like Third Uncle, Art Is Hard, Endless, Forward Fast, Ack! Ack! Ack! and more, he finally found his way to Stolen Body Records. Here he eschews his old group's acerbic brevity for a sprawling double slab of time-dilating chug and wail. Joined by Tom Carter (Charalambides) on cosmic lead, Kevin Nickles (Ecstatic Vision/Writhing Squares) on flute and saxophone and members of King Champion Sounds (with whom Heffernan plays bass and organ), the band ride the taut, rattling grooves out past Pluto every time.
‘Rations’ was recorded on three different planets during 2018. -Thomas House (Sweet Williams/Sloath/Haress) March 2019
INFO:
All songs by Heffernan
Recorded during 2018-2019 in England, Holland and the USA Mixed by Ajay Saggar, Soundation Studios, NL - Jan 2019 Mastered at The Miss Factory - Feb 2019
Design by Oli Heffernan
Oli Heffernan: Bass / Guitars / Synths / Organ Mees Siderius: Drums / Percussion
Kevin Nickles: Flute / Saxophone
Tom Carter: Guitars / Pocket Synth
Holly Habstritt-Gaal: Rhodes / Trumpet / Vocal on ‘Bitter Moon’
Tracklist
A1. Great White Buildings
A2. Sunken Battleship
A3. Mothra
B1. What Happened In History
B2. Silver Sails
B3. The Metallic Sea
C1. Painted Hands
C2. On Easter Island
C3. Bleached Venetian
D1. Empty Lantern (Fog)
D2. Ex Hex
D3. Bitter Moon