Name: From Inside a Hen by Goats Peak
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Description: On this debut EP, Goats Peak condenses years of training into eight tight minutes. These instrumentals set the template of reeds, brass, analog synths, and assorted circuitry to lurch through murky dub, queasy ambience, and fractured time signatures. A soundtrack for foraging on the burnt forest road.

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Tenor Sax with Reverb
Ant. Petrof Piano
Classical Guitar with Chorus + Reverb

In Dm

Instructions for Falling Upwards

Selective Process

Between Alignment Emission

On this debut EP, Goats Peak condenses years of training into eight tight minutes. These instrumentals set the template of reeds, brass, analog synths, and assorted circuitry to lurch through murky dub, queasy ambience, and fractured time signatures. A soundtrack for foraging on the burnt forest road.  

Shelter in Place

From Inside a Hen

This 3-track EP sharpens the Goats Peak palette, adding vocals and post-punk textures to the disconcerting mélange of dark psychedelia, early industrial and post-punk. The swirling horns, reeds, and analog synths remain, but the tone is less abstract, more confrontational. “The Hem” grasps with a dirty hand. “Year of the Brain” finds a worm at the heart of science. Closing track “Meet the Monster,” spins a lurching organ motif into a twitchy, starless night with Beefheart interpolation.

Year of the Brain

Programmer is an exploration of the obscure but iconic sound of the Solton Programmer 24. A synthesizer referred to by some as the “Ultimate Italo Disco Machine”.

Vancouver’s CORBEN pairs this strange and beautiful machine with a Mellotron and a Roland SVC-350 vocoder to great effect. The result is a haunting and dream-like suite of music that lends itself well to solitude and other inward-facing experiences.

Available digitally and on limited edition cassette tape September 4, 2020.

Pre-order: https://pacificrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/programmer

Programmer

CORBEN - Programmer

Memory Lane Trip Hop and  Mix

Goats Peak is the latest work of Weird North legend Jack Balles - best known for his time with Stagmummer (Sudden Death Records, No List) and sessions with studio masters like Steve Albini and Gggarth.  From a log cabin made of earth and wood in the interior Okanagan (BC) mountains, Goats Peak tracks the damp forest between dub, leftfield and industrial with a queasy pastoralism of warped wind and burnt electronics.  25 years of biting the ample. Test your drugs.

From Inside a Hen

Goats Peak

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