Ample Fire Within

by Ascend

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Solitude & Sin Drone of the superb kind - "We made it this far... we must be monsters too". The jazz is sublime, sax always gets me. Superb, sublime, splendid. My horse is thunder🤘😈🤘 Favorite track: VOG (B1).

Dave O))) Essential album, get it while you can. I have the vinyl so I'm grabbing this for $1. The version of Desert Cry is ecstatic. ummmm, it's a trombone 😄

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1. The Obelisk of Kolob
2. Ample Fire Within
3. Divine
4. V.O.G
5. Her Horse is Thunder
6. Dark Matter

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1.	The Obelisk Of Kolob (A1) 04:25	info	buy track
2.	Ample Fire Within (A2) 07:10	info	buy track
3.	Desert Cry (McCoy Tyner) (A3) 09:26	info	buy track
4.	VOG (B1) 10:28	info	buy track
5.	Divine (B2) 09:38	info	buy track
6.	Her Horse Is Thunder (C1) 09:33	info	buy track
7.	Dark Matter (C2) 13:06	info	buy track
8.	Fenrir Ondi Ahman (D1) 15:54	info	buy track

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Southern Lord is proud to present the the debut album from ASCEND, the collaborative musical project between Gentry Densley (Iceburn, Eagle Twin) and Greg Anderson (sunn 0))), Goatsnake, Engine Kid).

Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 31 years. (!!!) The most notable being during the 90s when Anderson's band Engine Kid toured with and shared a split album with Densley's band Iceburn. During that time both were heavily experimenting with the fusion of jazz (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane) and the dark behemoth tones of influences such as The Melvins, Gore, Slint, and the Caspar Bratzmann Massaker.

ASCEND re-visits some of the tones, and moods of their past works as well as traveling into uncharted territory all done with the utmost focus on heaviness and power.

Special guest appearances on this album include Andy Patterson on drums, Steve Moore (aka Stebmo, also in Earth and often times sunn O)))) on trombone, organ and wurlitzer, Bubba Dupree (Void) on guitar AND none other than Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) putting down some incredible lead work!

The packaging and layout was created by Stephen O'Malley with an homage to our favorite jazz records of the past from labels like ECM and Impulse! This deluxe gatefold edition features 180 gram vinyl and two bonus tracks not included on the original's CD release: "Desert Cry" and the monstrously epic "Fenrir Ondi Ahman"

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released February 13, 2010

Artwork [Elephant Drawing] – Rich Jacobs
Design – Stephen O'Malley
Mastered By – Mell Dettmer, Mell Dettmer
Mixed By – Greg Anderson (tracks: A3), Randall Dunn (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to D1)
Photography By – Jen Anderson , Stephen O'Malley
Photography By [Gatefold Portrait] – Phil Petrocelli
Recorded By [Los Angeles Tracks] – Ascend) (tracks: A3)
Recorded By, Mixed By – Mathias Schneeberger (tracks: A3)
Written-By – Ascend (3) (tracks: A1, A2, B1 to D1), McCoy Tyner (tracks: A3)

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