We’re thrilled to announce that Bay Area’s Barn Owl has been confirmed for Roadburn Festival 2012, playing the Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland on Friday, April 13th.
Barn Owl is guitarist Jon Porras and guitarist Evan K. Caminiti. Together they create dialogue between imagination and reality through wandering soundscapes, using reverb, delay, distortion, feedback, and effects pedals to create humming sounds that often have South Asian and Middle Eastern tonalities. Like similar ambient guitar and drone metal contemporaries OM, Sunn O))) and Earth, Barn Owl‘s approach to making music hearkens back to minimalist composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
The duo’s intertwining guitars, jumping from major and minor note progressions to deep and dark drones. The movement and patterns of their soundscapes conjure up images of bleak and barren places or wordless avant-garde films about desolate surroundings. Barn Owl‘s latest album, the much-acclaimed Lost in the Glare, is a dreamy affair, quiet and meditative at times, but also explosive with loud power strikes, evoking a spiritual, hypnotic state of mind.
Tags: Barn Owl, drone, Evan K. Caminiti, Jon Porras, Lost In The Glare, Roadburn, Roadburn 2012, Roadburn Festival, Roadburn Festival 2012
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Hands down, best addition so far. Thank you!