Evening Fires

“Waves in the Air” is wonderfully exploratory and relaxed throughout, allowing itself to meander in places but always in a way that is expansive, never pointless or dull.

Thanks to Hannah Abelbeck for dropping by one of our recent practices, and writing this piece.

. . . the payoff comes in unexpected moments of beauty, not unlike a drive through the mountains of central Pennsylvania during the fall. . . .

From November 2009 issue of Voices of Central Pennsylvania.

As a general rule, anything on Deep Water is almost guaranteed to be of excellent quality and well worth seeking out. On this latest batch of releases however, the label has surpassed its own high standards to produce a collection of releases that has been on heavy rotation in this particular corner of the globe. ...

H.H.

Originally released in limited runs of 33 copies (what chance do you have?), the two albums from Goner are fine collections of hypnotic psychedelic rock, featuring repetitive grooves, hypnotic rhythms and a seemingly pagan heart. ...

Sugar Head Record

Cut from darker matter, the album from Ashtray Navigations contains only three songs across its two discs, with disc one being taken up completely by the 58 minute drone/noise creation "Sugar Head Music With Sines", a feral dust cloud of sound that roams across its surroundings covering everything in beautiful ashes of noise. ...

New Worlds For Old

Containing just four long tracks, the first disc of "New Worlds For Old", is a magnificent, rambling beast that twists and writhes, soars and dives, filling the air with a cornucopia of instrumental sounds, the music alive with melody passion and promise. ...

Blue Mountain Water

Apparently recorded in various subterranean locations, whether caves or cellar it does not say, the five tracks on "Blue Mountain Water" were recorded live with no overdubs giving them a freshness, the musicians involved working together to create a collection of great beauty. ...

click here to read full reviews at Ptolemaic Terrascope Online

Another wide-ranging effort from Evening Fires, this time the trio of Kevin Moist, Nathaniel Rasmussen, and Ben Wentz, most of whom are actively involved in the Deep Water Acres website and label. Reportedly recorded in various subterranean locations with no post-production trickery, “Blue Mountain Water” indeed captures a mysterious, cavernous tone...

click here to read the full review at Foxy Digitalis

Bookend releases of a set of Evening Fires material out now on the two great labels.

Digitalis Limited (Oklahoma)

ltd#13: evening fires "figures of earth" cd-r $8 <-click for ordering info

evening fires is a quartet of pennsylvanians, featuring members of clear spots and nessmuk, as well as the brains behind the deep water acres website & label. they're busy guys, but still found the time last summer and fall to crank out a set of backporch jams and slipstream electric boogaloos. they get help on banjo and mandolin on a few tracks, too, beefing up the downhome goodness.

what really makes "figures of earth" such a stunning album is the diversity that doesn't take away from the overall flow. kraut-infused songs fit seemlessly next to something reminiscent of the black twigs. they don't fight it out, they just keep it mellow and roll on down the way. using an array of instrumentation from guitars, synths, and drums to saxophone, bodhran, and tabla, you get a lot of mileage out of these 47 minutes. the perfect soundtrack to your summer roadtrip. limited to 73 handnumbered copies.

MusicYourMindWillLoveYou (Australia)

Mymwly0097 evening fires – the wood beyond the world cdr $10 (to order, paypal to mymwly [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Weirded out space rock with a slight postrock weave butts sublime tribal soundscapes bounded within the rural warmth of north American folk music , with shimmering krautrock gleamings and an overall meditative beaming...lush and glorious...