June 7th Performance

JUNE 7TH

Its time to get out of our heads for a minute and play a show. We're excited to share some new material with you and to perform live again. Then its back to the studio to hash out the last details before we start mixing the new album. 

See you at the Heartland:

a newish all-ages gallery/performance space in the U-district of Seattle, Wa.

With

Arrington de Dionyso's Malaikat dan Singa

MTNS

and

DJ URINE  (Paris)

Recording

Happy to announce our first weekend of recording with engineer Jeffery Mcnulty and crew went well. These new songs are sounding great and they're not even mixed yet! With most sessions, not everything goes to plan. We blew some tubes and there were a couple computer mishaps but, overall we got a lot accomplished. Plus, we now know what kind of gear we really want! It will be a while until we share these new songs with you. In the meantime, we'll keep you up to date with pictures of our progress a long the way.

Sonarchy Radio KEXP

Last night on KEXP 90.3 FM an hour long live set of ours aired for the program Sonarchy Radio. Its a mix of songs off our album, improvisations and new songs.You can stream this show all week. After this week, look for us in the KEXP archives under Sonarchy Radio. Thanks for listening.

Brick and Mortar

We're proud to annouce that 'In Search of Fabled Lands' is now available at Aquarius Records in San Francisco, Ca and at their online store. Check out their review below.

"We were first turned on to this Seattle collective by our pals in psychedelic kosmische krautdrone combo Magdalena Solis. As much as we love MS, we figured a band THEY found worthy of recommending, would in fact be well worth checking out, and we (and they) were right. Geist & The Sacred Ensemble are from Seattle, and traffic in a sort of Eastern tinged psychedelic folk ritualism, spidery guitar melodies, minimal percussion, tinkling chimes, chanted vocals. But unlike many of their sonic brethren, who stop just shy of actual songwriting, instead subsisting on creating sprawling soundscapes, Geist often transform whatever abstract drift they've just conjured up into what sounds like some twisted strain of swampy apocalyptic folk, or some twisted psychedelic sea shanty. Just check out the opener "Awaken / The Gut", which begins like some abstract forest folk ritual, all blurred melodies, hushed percussion, chanted vox, only to blossom into a proper song, all woozy strum, druggy atmosphere, echo drenched melody, hauntingly crooned vox, the song sounded strangely familiar, until we realized it sorta sounded like a super slowed down, ultra psychedelic, dirgey and druggy reworking of the Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood". Weird. More often than not, it's songs proper that these guys offer up, sometimes slipping into a bit of ambience, or some psychedelic drift, but otherwise weaving lush expanses of drug folk shimmer, or woozy, swampy psychedelic blues, check out "Grave Coins", with it's drunken swagger, and sonic snarl, we're guessing fans of King Dude, Woven Hand, Kiss The Anus, Nick Cave and the like will flip for these guys. The whole record bursts with mysterious psychedelia, gypsy folk, brooding campfire dirges, tracks like "In Search Of Fabled Lands" wraps snake charmer guitar melodies, around shuffling percussion, with swooping backwards chordal wheezes, all building to a more percussive, tribal psych dirge freakout, or there's "Fertilize", which is all stripped down blues, or "Circles", which is a lo-fi sprawl of tribal, junkyard swagger, crooned vox, over murky shimmer, and pounding percussion, or even "These Embers Need A Blowin", which sounds like New Model Army by way of Cop Shoot Cop if that makes any sense.
A fantastic collection of dark, brooding, bluesy, psychedelia, that's haunting and hypnotic and harrowing in equal measure.
Comes with a full color printed J-card and includes a download coupon as well." 

1.16.13

We hope you can join us!

more info here.

Geist & the Sacred Ensemble: 2013

Geist & the Sacred Ensemble: 2013: Well, here we are 2013. You're looking to be quite a year already. Be prepared for new releases with our new label Moon Glyph , tours and al...

2013

Well, here we are 2013. You're looking to be quite a year already. Be prepared for new releases with our new label Moon Glyph, tours and all sorts of other secrets that will be told over the course of 2013!

First show of the year

1/16/13

Comet Tavern- Seattle, Wa

with

Angelo Spencer

and

OHIOAN

$6 

doors at 8 pm

Be seeing you, if not in Seattle, somewhere out there.