Spunflower – “Calumet”

Spunflower sprouted in the woods and wilds of Humboldt County’s fertile free music scene, assembled from members of DDT and White Manna. The band locked themselves away in a 120 year-old church dubbed The Old Steeple, dosed the minds and let the session take them on through three nights and four days. Seeking to tap into the deep cosmic vein that had haunted the Wümme studio-era of Faust or the infamous Open Studio session of Turkish band Haza Vuzu, the band let the hands of fate drive their communal connection, emerging with a bedrock of synth and percussion. Overdubbing the sessions later with Russ Thallheimer’s horns and Michael Dieter’s bass, they molded the mind meld of the tapes into something stranger and more pungent. From the first moments we crack into the beast they birthed, it’s clear that the band’s on to a deeper vibration, somewhere between the seance of spiritual jazz and the science fiction of Kosmiche. Their eponymous album is out March 7th from Feeding Tube and Cardinal Fuzz, and you can listen to album-opener “Calumet” below.

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