''Oracle'' is an EP by American
drone metal band
Sunn O)))
Sunn O))) (pronounced "sun") is an American drone metal band formed in 1998 in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. The band is known for its distinctive visual style and slow, heavy sound, which blends diverse genres including doom metal, ...
. The track "Orakalum" was recorded as part of a collaboration between the band and sculptor/installation artist
Banks Violette
Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York.
Biography
Violette was born in Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, New York (state), New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduate ...
for an exhibit at London's
Maureen Paley gallery. The exhibit took place in two rooms: one with a black stage where the band recorded "Orakulum" with Attila Csihar locked inside a white coffin, and one with a white replica of the band's stage set up (including amps and guitars) cast out of salt and resin with a destroyed black coffin. The audience was locked outside for the performance and let inside after the band left "to generate a feeling of absence, loss and a phantom of what was."
Track listing
Oracle
#"Belülről Pusztít" – 16:01
#"Orakulum" – 18:37
Limited Edition Bonus Disc
#"Helio)))sophist" – 46:17
Musicians
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Greg Anderson
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Stephen O'Malley
Stephen O'Malley (sometimes referred to as SOMA; born July 15, 1974) is an American guitarist, producer, composer, and visual artist from Seattle, Washington, who has conceptualized and participated in numerous drone metal, doom metal, and expe ...
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Attila Csihar
Attila Gábor Csihar (; born 29 March 1971), also sometimes known as Void, is a Hungarian extreme metal vocalist, best known for his vocal work in Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and American drone metal band Sunn O))). Author Ian Christe ...
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Atsuo
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Joe Preston
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Tos Nieuwenhuizen
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Oren Ambarchi
References
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2007 albums
Southern Lord Records albums
Sunn O))) albums
Ambient albums by American artists