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25/8/2020 1 Comment

Microwolf - My Cauliflower Ears (Lost Tribe Sound)

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WHAT WE SAY:

Detached from folk history, Microwolf's new LP for Lost Tribe Sound inhabits an undiscovered sonic island shaped by his own devices, sounds, forms & cabin fevered imagination, where tradition is electronically warped & the past will never sound the same again.
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WHAT YOUR EARS SAY:

WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY:

‘My Cauliflower Ears’ is the third album from Netherlands-born, Benjamin van Vliet, who makes music under the name, Microwolf.   

‘My Cauliflower Ears’ combines the sonically rich, yet minimal approach of drone music, the sampling techniques of hip hop, and the intimacy of folk-styled songwriting and storytelling. It’s the kind of honest, personal, and roughhewn sort of sound that has inspired Lost Tribe Sound since our beginning in 2010. This type of hard-to-frame vocal music has always been important to us, and helped us convert some of the most diehard instrumental music fans, into fans of vocal-lead music such as this. Music where the vocal truly plays the role of an instrument, just as much as anything else in the song. Microwolf is very much in line with other acts that we’ve championed over the years, such as Mute Forest, Cock & Swan and Graveyard Tapes. 

Before Van Vliet started Microwolf, he’d always made music that was a compromise. Making music with others he’d naturally strive for democracy. So the outcome would always be a mix of ideas, wherein his more outlandish ideas would usually get tossed in the process. Microwolf was designed to be an outlet for those things Van Vliet knew he’d have to do himself to get them right. 

Having never fully taken the creative reins before, the first two Microwolf albums ('You Better Go Now' and the mini-album 'You Are The Everything') were a huge learning curve. 'You Better Go Now' is sonically all over the place and absolutely stuffed with ideas. That album could have been the beginning and the end of Microwolf, but about two years later Van Vliet realized he had at least one more solo album in him. After taking a refugee vow with a Buddhist lama in 2018 and diving deeper into drone music and contemporary classical music, Van Vliet set out to make a statement that was far more subtle and better articulated. An album that was short, quiet, conceptually precise, but executed loosely and freely. No tight rhythms, no strummed guitars, no loud singing. Music that embraces its own emptiness, awkwardness and fleetingness. 

The resulting album, ‘My Cauliflower Ears,’ in the words of Van Vliet, is the most radical music he’s ever made. In that it achieves exactly what he set out to do, following up on rhythmic ideas and sonic landscapes that he has walked around with for years. There’s a humbly triumphant dynamic at play here, one that feels like Van Vliet has turned inward, learned some lessons from his past, and now has the clarity to express this intimate discourse. 

‘My Cauliflower Ears’ arrives in a few limited physical formats. Lost Tribe Sound is releasing a reverse-print gatefold CD version with lyrics insert (100 Editions). In addition, the artist is releasing a truncated 10” clear vinyl version of the album, featuring two exclusive remixes (40 Editions). Also, LTS is releasing a bonus album, ‘My Cauliflower Ears (Instrumentals)’ on the same day as the album proper. All who pre-order the original album, or subscribe the the Fearful Void Series will receive a free copy of the instrumentals. 


All songs written and recorded by Benjamin van Vliet 
Mastered by Martijn Comes 
Layout and design by R. Keane 
Cover art by TBA 
© Lost Tribe Sound LLC / Microwolf 
℗ Settled Scores LLC (ASCAP)
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