NYC Based Quartet Emergency Group Return w/ “Mind Screen” :: BIG EGO Records
From the stairs of a holographic labyrinth that breaths life into the retro shadows of the more spiritual aspects of birth and rebirth, silence penetrates the nearby caves of cataclysmic dwellings. An operation of critical technique and organic influence within desolate landscape winds seems to quickly disappear into the homesteads residing amongst battered shores someplace sacred. An afterglow from the ancient impact of sound and luscious programing crystalizes the skull into hot, clear glass like some Pompeii eruption, but this time the escape is prolonged into a thousands nights of radical dreams and hollowed prayer. Looming overhead results in birds mimicking a deadly feedback shape that blends a freedom like texture into the biblical sky with devastated atmosphere streaks both clear and surprisingly emerald green. Where notes float like sinking boats across the milky equator that separates our table top earth and whatever graceless land that is near, rests a suddenness to prepare for the eternity of rhythm and sound.
Brooklyn based quartet, Emergency Group consists of Robert Boston, Andreas Brade, Jonathan Byerley and Dave Mandl. A collective of musicians that successfully test the gripping reality of collaboration, electric community and bound for sound storytelling like some of the greats that effortlessly conquered before them. Since their groundbreaking effort with last year’s “Inspection Of Cruelty” on Island House Recordings, the quartet has made yet another significant discovery blissfully hidden within the compelling depths of their jamming void with the release of “Mind Screen”. A luminous body of work that triggers gasping, full rotation orbits and Event Horizon party fever, Emergency Group bare no witnesses summoning the cataclysmic mood that Is found throughout the album’s instrumental heroism. Precisely one year ago the band entered a studio in their hometown of Brooklyn to initiate working with a producer, Chris Schlarb, for the very first time. For a lot of bands, the studio setting and the many elements that follow suite can either intimidate the artists into the soundproof, feeble corners of the room, or simply help harvest their energy in a way that is both frightening and incredibly magical. For Emergency Group, there is no sense of roaming around aimlessly in the damp dark with an unlit flame, for the precise and mesmerizing vision to capture something truly intoxicating is clearly expressed throughout the album’s 4 tracks and all you have to do is follow the bellowing glow of the flame.
Both cosmically conceptual and driven by the hybrid ghost of PKD, “Mind Screen” quickly displays an exciting narrative and planetary plot for the quartet’s first proper release on vinyl. With the title track opening these gigantic, bay doors to the album, it becomes completely transparent that the ender, “Julien”, which is dedicated to member Jonathan Byerley’s son, is this unique homecoming track for a successful years worth of installer travel amongst the whispering stars and momentary memories of spiritually related history.
