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Love In The Black Stack

by The Hundred In The Hands

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1.
High above the earth in an aeroplane Stacked up in satellites trying to explain The distance Between us In the roots Beneath us Looking for a way back home To you. Unspooled in the wet sun pinned to your lips While summer swoons wearing out our skin. We were Grown loose in the haze Wild weeds in alleys We circled for days Looking for runways Looking for a way back home To you. There’s a sky out in this room down below Tonight I am drowning in its glow One hundred and one ways Lain in constellations Taking me back Home to you.
2.
I rise Beside the pale moon out Our city below Cut to divide And the sound in my chest Is of pianos Falling, Coming down heavy on you. They’ll try to tell us, Uh-uh, I don’t need to know. These streets are riled in A plastic noise They’ll try to destroy The lines we made when we cut our teeth I still see, Our blood run tonight, Winding through the streets Finding me in your eyes And as we rise, Like a pale moon out I see, Winter’s in the sinners, The kids don’t mean a thing They face the earth and go digging in They try to tell us Uh-uh I don’t need to know. Nu-uh, I don’t need to know. We were hung on a wire Orbiting wildly Looking for love from above As if love alone could be enough And the two of us, You and me, Turning on the stairs Like dancers Falling, Coming down heavy on you. But, When we wane, In sunlight louder than us, It’s just enough to know You’re all I need to know. Uh huh, You’re all I need to know.
3.
Listening I’m the can and the string listening, thrown into the weeds, speaking in tongues listening
4.
Felt A Love 05:14
I Was in The heart of the heart And All Was quiet In the distance between us The void opened to lead us Into spaces unseen to set us In motion When I saw a friend I hadn’t seen in weeks, She had stories to tell, We fell into the spaces between us As the summer sun swelled around us In the heart of the heart of cities We felt a love And the world fell away. For the heart of the heart of cities Far from the hardness in me I felt a love. I Was in The heart of the heart on Her roof I Was Listening In To the speakers beneath us The sound opening to lead us Into spaces unseen to set us In motion Given to chance, Laughing disheveled, Telephones ringing, Televisions drifting in And out like tides In empty rooms Promising connections We let go of In favor of Silence. We felt a love And the world fell away. For the heart of the heart of cities Far from the hardness in me I felt a love. We sat up on her roof Asking questions Without answers Or expectations In the heart of the heart of cities Far from the hardness in me I felt a love I felt a love.
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6.
The proof of love is impossible, love. The proof of love is impossible love.
7.
Unsettle in close to me, my love under this crooked moon unsettle in close to me. Float above street level when rain lifts the gravel let your strings unravel unsettle in close to me, my love. Is this rain gonna come? it teases and teases and loses interest Trade light for shadow trade shadow for shade and settle in close to me, my love and settle in close to me, my love.
8.
On Ruins 01:49
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10.
Wade Up 04:27
Come on Come out outside Don’t need to be right Wade up in the night Nothing to justify Nothing to satisfy Don’t need to be right Wade up in the night Our love takes some time Go slow to unwind Come on come outside Wade up in the night. All night wait up for it Go slow to unwind Our love wasn’t done Wait up Wade up in the night. Our love Wait up for it Our life takes some time Our time takes our love Wait up Wade in the night.
11.
I Follow 03:17
I follow your light around Hole up on a shackle moon. She wakes up in Munich Real life a foreign land Had enough of a fall-shorn love. Darling one of us is Always charming us. Hunger wheels up come the night falling The only way is forward. Every time with the same miracle I Start again, try again, wake up to All the time, start again, wake up and To another summer, wind circles, I Wake up to another wind circles, I Wake up to another time, light falls, I Wake up to another wind circles, I Wake up to your love, my light falls, I Wake up to another wind circles, I Wake up to your love and my light falls Around.

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The Hundred In The Hands return with their third album Love In The Black Stack; a swoony late-night soundtrack to the catastrophic present.

Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman began working on these intimate new songs and ambient tracks using cassettes recorded in the late ‘90’s, demos, voice-memos, field recordings and other half-forgotten ephemera collected over the years. They then went back into the studio with producers Vito Roccoforte and Gabriel Andruzzi (The Rapture, Vito and Druzzi) -- who both add their indelible stylistic synth and percussion work -- and together helped re-work the material for an album conceived as the score to a larger art installation/performance piece.

The final 11 songs yo-yo from the insular romance of “I Follow”, “Pale Moon Out” and “Felt A Love” to the jagged pulse of “Proof of Love”, “Red Eyes Rising” and cascading drive of “Wade Up”; alternately grounded in the deep searching harmonies of Eleanore’s layered vocals and the purposeful silences and slipped rhythms of the off-kilter production.

With lyrical through-lines moving from satellites and constellations “high above the earth,” through “telephones ringing in empty rooms” and unwinding under rising tides — and with themes loosely touching on gentrification, environmental collapse, and occult technological faiths — Love in the Black Stack is an attempt to find the gaps still ungoverned by these global forces and to create sense and connection from incomprehension and dislocation.

An accompanying virtual album-cover layered with lyrics, credits, crypto/mystic-diagrams and extraneous texts is online at: LoveInTheBlackStack.com.

This is the first release since 2012’s Red Night (Warp) and the first for their label New Ancestors: a journal/label focusing on artist-to-artist relationships and patient journalism examining, supporting and challenging vital culture

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released June 15, 2017

“Red Eyes Rising”, “Felt A Love”, “I Follow” & “Proof Of Love”
Produced Vito Roccoforte & Gabriel Andruzzi.
Mixed by Gabriel Andruzzi.
Recorded & mixed at Earth2Ether & Loose Heads.

“Pale Moon Out”
Produced by Vito Roccoforte & Gabriel Andruzzi.
Mixed by Gabriel Andruzzi & Jason Friedman.
Recorded and mixed at Earth2Ether & Loose Heads.
Lead Vocals recorded by Jonathan Kreinik at Boombox Magnetica.

“Wade Up”
Produced by Jason Friedman.
Additional production by Vito Roccoforte & Gabriel Andruzzi.
Mixed by Jason Friedman & Gabriel Andruzzi.
Recorded and mixed at Loose Heads & Earth2Ether.

“Psalm Slung Low”, “Worm Moon Idyll”, “Settle In Close”, “On Ruins”
& “Under The Long Swell”
Produced and mixed by Jason Friedman at Loose Heads.


Lyrics to “Red Eyes Rising”, “Pale Moon Out”, “Psalm Slung Low”,
“Felt A Love” by Jason Friedman.

Lyrics to “Settle In Close”, “Wade Up”, “I Follow” by Eleanore Everdell.

“Proof Of Love” lyric by EE & JF.


Eleanore Everdell: Vocals, keyboards, programming.

Jason Friedman: Keyboards, programming, percussion, guitars.



Gabrial Andruzzi: Additional keyboards, programing & percussion.

Vito Roccoforte: Additional percussion, programing & keyboards.




All songs (c) & (p) 2017 Eleanore Everdell & Jason Friedman
EEE Music ASCAP, Weare Boggs Music ASCAP.

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Eleanore Everdell and Jason Friedman signed to Warp Records not long after recording their first song and have been making music together ever since. On Warp, they released the “This Desert EP", (2010) S/T LP (2010), “Red Night” (2012), and 4 singles featuring remixes from Andy Stott, Patten & Kyle Hall. In 2018, they released the LP Love in the Black Stack on their own imprint, New Ancestors. ... more

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