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19 апр 2014
THE TOWER Premier 'Exile' Music Video
The offbeat, freak-beat and phantasmagorical psych-blues of Hic Abundant Leones exudes an ageless charm and resounding singularity, striking eerie, dreamlike atmospheres that seemingly confirm The Tower's eccentric parallel-universe narrative.
According to the band's self-penned timeline, in 1945 they withdrew to their eponymous Tower: "The four remained in solitude throughout the '50s, an isolation interspersed only by a Zenith tube radio which brought them pop cultural news-pieces aired by American radio stations. They tried to adapt the rockabilly tunes they heard into their own music but were mostly unsuccessful (their innate sense of rhythm being too crooked)."
Allegedly splitting in the '70s, they returned to the Tower in 1983, where they remained until 2012 - ‘when rumors of the end of the world enticed them to leave.’ They recorded a demo (soon pressed to 12" by Dybbuk Records) before cutting their mystical long-player: "The days in the studio were smooth. The loveable Joona Hassinen, who we recorded with, made us feel very comfortable, as if we were rehearsing in our 'tower room'."
And what is the significance of the peculiar title Hic Abundant Leones? The band answers, "We saw it written on an ancient map of the (then-known) world. It literally means 'here are lions in abundance' and was used by the cartographer to designate an uncivilized, wild and dangerous territory. When applied to Northern Scandinavia, it becomes very weird, because there are no lions here, but this only furthers the poetry by making the lions mythical. The record is such a territory. So is the place where we rehearse. And stages we play on, and the vistas of our minds, the future and the past; the unknowns we want to explore and yet, paradoxically, also the regions where we feel the most at home."
Pre-orders of Hic Abundant Leones are being taken at the Prosthetic webshop.
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