Danish Instrumental Psychedelic/Progressive Rock band Edena Gardens have unveiled the official video for the second single “Veil” taken from their upcoming album titled “Agar,” due out on April 7th, 2023 via El Paraiso Records. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
On their 2nd album, Edena Gardens manifests itself as a permanent fixture in the El Paraiso catalogue.
Edena Gardens could have flickered and disappeared in true El Paraiso fashion with a single session album, but the trio emerges with both a new studio album as well as a live album (Live Momentum). It’s part of the band’s DNA: it contains multitudes. There’s always a variation or open path, shifting with ease from Heavy Cosmic Stoner Folk-vibes, to the scorched earth of 12-minute centrepiece Veil. Halcyon Days opens up a panoramic interlude of beautiful analogue warmth, while closer Crescent Helix opens in full Free-Jazz mode, only to travel into an endless crescendo of Alt. Rock proportions rarely found on this side of the 90’s.
Somehow, Edena Gardens combines the sum of it’s multifaceted parts in a unified way, Perhaps due to Causa Sui drummer Jakob Skøtt’s transparent edits and layered treatments. Or perhaps the trio’s level of experience and joy of playing simply connects whatever direction they pursue – Nicklas Sørensen of Papir’s glistering guitar lines, backed up by Martin Rude’s rumbling Baritone guitar strums or solid basslines. It’s an album that showcases not only the spontaneous paths taken but also the vast well of ideas or sounds only implied or briefly touched upon, creating an aggregation of sounds just out of reach.
Members of Papir & Causa Sui travel through new musical realms. 3 musicians with their own compass: Martin Rude & Jakob Skøtt have shared a wide range of musical quests: from Causa Sui’s “Bitches Brew of Stoner Rock” crossing the Folk meditations of Sun River and arriving most recently as members of the pre-fusion electric dealings of the London Odense Ensemble.
Papir guitarist Nicklas Sørensen is not merely adding a new layer to an established duo, but his presence to the party have brought it into more meditative dwellings. These pieces move slowly, evolving like the slow growth underneath the ground. Whereas Causa Sui & Papir have always excelled at blistering panoramic and often sundrenched sounds, Edena Gardens take a dive inwards and downwards rather than outwards. But there’s also an electrically charged extatic rawness to the dealings. Like Æther, the 10 minute opener’s 2 guitars-and-a-drum kit improv, finding it’s way from tumbling drones into monolithic slow riffage. Elsewhere, we find trails of electronic vapors, misfiring bursts of noise and slow drones stretched out.
Edena Gardens is a thing to be experienced first hand – it’s not for everyone, but those who decide to stay are greatly rewarded. It’s a debut unlike any other record on El Paraiso, perhaps unlike any you’ve ever heard.
Welcome to Edena Gardens.
Pre-Order the album here: https://elparaisorecords.com/product/edena-gardens-agar/
Tracklist:
- Aether (10:02)
- Sliding Under (7:12)
- The Canopy (3:55)
- Hidebound (6:16)
- Now Here Nowhere (7:32)
- Iod (2:14)
- An T-eilean Dubh (6:51)
Lineup:
Martin Rude / Guitar, Bass
Nicklas Sørensen (Papir) – Guitar, Effects
Jakob Skøtt (Causa Sui) – Drums, Keyboards, Electronics