We’re ecstatic to share with you today the news that Normil Hawaiians will be releasing their first new music since 1985 with Upset The Rhythm next month. Choosing the form of a 7” in which to appear, September 11th will witness the release of ‘In The Stone / Where Is Living?’.
Having reformed around our reissue project for their impressive trio of albums of loose, improvised, pastoral post-punk, Normil Hawaiians began to write new music together. The quaint weirdness of folk song, the humanity of communal practice and the group’s ecological mindedness have all found a place in Normil Hawaiians’ current sound world. The band encamped to Tayinloan, a small village on the west coast of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland to set up their own studio in an isolated, windswept house overlooking the sea and started the tape rolling.
‘In The Stone’ is a motorik thrill of distorted guitars, locked rhythms and morphic resonance. Guy Smith is joined by Zinta Egle on vocals, skilfully sharing lyrics informed by Alan Garner and Nigel Kneale’s ideas around recurring events being linked to place and historical artefact; a kind of residual haunting known as ‘Stone Tape’ theory. In keeping with the context of the song, sounds from several previous live recordings of the track were woven into its present being. Flipside ‘Where is Living?’ is a decidedly more delicate affair of questioning lyrics and eerie traces, droning strings and impressions smudged.
This resultant 7” is a tantalising glimpse of Normil Hawaiians now, an echo from the past, an echo from the future. Available to pre-order now: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com
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