Watch Ex-Easter Island Head’s video for ‘Sixteen Snares’

The heavenly ‘Sixteen Snares’ off Ex-Easter Island Head‘s latest album Twenty-Two Strings has recently received the visual treatment. The video, made by Jack Whiteley, offers a fascinating glimpse of just how unique and mesmeric the trio’s live performances are.

Ex-Easter Island Head will perform at Le Guess Who? on November 11th, as part of the program curated by James Holden. If you haven’t yet seen their own picks for the festival, find out which acts they’re most excited about in Le Guess Who?’s Who.

Le Guess Who?’s Who 2017: Ex-Easter Island Head

There’s just over a month to go before Le Guess Who? takes over Utrecht. With over 150 artists set to perform, how do we make sense of such a monumental line-up? We asked the bands we’re most excited to see for their recommendations.

Ex-Easter Island Head

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Performing Saturday 11th November, curated by James Holden

First up is Liverpool based experimental trio Ex-Easter Island Head, who create mesmeric minimalistic and rhythmic compositions using mallets and guitars. When we asked them they told us they are looking forward to seeing Roy Montgomery, John Maus, Gas, the Sai Anantam Ashram Singers, Flohio and “more or less everything on the lineup”. But the three below topped their list:

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares

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Performing Thursday 9th November, curated by Perfume Genius

 

James Holden & The Animal Spirits

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Performing Saturday 11th November

 

Visible Cloaks

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Performing Sunday 12th November

 

Le Guess Who? will take place 9-12 November. For tickets and more info visit leguesswho.com. And stay tuned for more artists we’re excited about picking their own Le Guess Who?’s Who.

Ex-Easter Island Head’s new album Twenty​-​Two Strings out today

Ex-Easter Island Head - Twenty​-​Two StringsToday sees the much anticipated release of Twenty​-​Two Strings, the new album from experimental mallet-guitar trio Ex-Easter Island Head. With an ever evolving line-up, and currently comprising Benjamin Duvall, Benjamin Fair and Jonathan Hering. Ex-Easter Island Head started as the solo project of Benjamin Duvall in 2009, existing with different line ups including large ensembles. With two incredible albums under their belt, the Liverpool based collective also count a number of stellar collaborations, including with the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Arnold Dreyblatt, experimental instrument builder Yuri Landman and avant-garde artist / choreographer Kei Miyata.

Described as “their most complex and focused release yet”, the new album “finds the group refining their overtone-rich string explorations around a skeleton of tuned bells and drums, bringing a new propulsive momentum to the group’s goal of “an ever changing surface over an unmoving centre”. The press release adds that “Ex-Easter Island Head push the boundaries of their intentionally restrained set-up, balancing austere physicality with luminescent abstraction to create a bold summation of the group’s work to date”.

Ex-Easter Island Head are celebrating the album’s release with two launch shows later this month. They are performing in Liverpool on August 18th at the Philharmonic Music Room, and in London the following day at Iklectik.

To get you enticed, here’s the album’s heavenly ‘Sixteen Snares’. Listen to it below and grab the album from Low Point.