Bio:
Jenks Miller spent three years conceptualizing
and recording Impale Golden Horn, his solo debut as Horseback,
in a basement in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Impale Golden Horn isn't an ordinary drone album, and Miller--who
currently spreads his time over six bands, from pop trio Un
Deux Trois to spaz-and-metal melders In the Year of the Pig--isn't
an ordinary drone artist. Having struggled with obsessive-compulsive
disorder for 15 years, Miller conceptualized Impale Golden
Horn as a holistic, glowing reaction to his symptoms and the
way he envisions and fears that most essential human
component, blood.
As such, each of these four connected environments builds,
floats and disintegrates with a sense of detail, patience
and timing that's rapturous and mesmerizing. Whether it's
a resplendent ping surfacing from a submerged piano or a broad,
sweeping pass from a corroded but coruscating electric guitar,
Impale Golden Horn is the work of a perfectionist trying to
keep his deepest worries at bay.
Update:
+ Impale Golden Horn LP
released July 2007
+ Currently writing new album
Band members:
Jenks Miller -
vocal, electric guitar, piano, bass, lap steel, ebow, keyboard,
synthesizer, drums, percussion, processing, fuzz fx
Other (live) incarnations may include:
Heather McEntire: Vocal; Aaron Smithers: Bass; Jon Mackey:
Laptop computer; Scott Endres: Guitar; Bradley Cooke: Laptop
computer; Joe Westerlund: Percussion
Releases:
Impale Golden Horn [HFQ002/Burly
Time002]
Reviews:
"So gorgeous. Absolutely one
of our favorite new records, a practically perfect fade-out-drift-off-drone-dream-disc
... Best drone record of the year? Quite possibly... "
-- Aquarius Records (New Arrivals 270, July 2007)
"'Finale' is a pretty
brazen debut for Chapel Hill noisician Jenks Miller, an ebow-chugging
mix of ever-overlapping drones and shimmering squall. Calling
it 'Finale'—even though it's the first track on the
record—was as obvious a choice as, say, 'Exit Music
(For A Film)' or 'Ascension.'" (9/10)
-- Paper Thin Walls (March 2007)
"Miller's attention
to detail is astonishing as he builds and deconstructs his
instrumental tales. The songs lull you into a blissful dream-like
state before slowly bringing you back into consciousness."
-- Sound as Language
"Though it be noise,
it isn't abrasive. [Its] atonality becomes a densely layered
blanket that sweeps over the listener heavily, but without
smothering. The faintest hints of a melody seep through the
fog from time to time, like the remnants of a pleasantly remembered
dream."
-- The Daily Tarheel (June 2007)
Booking/Contact:
horsebacknoise [at] gmail [dot] com
Band Website:
myspace.com/horsebacknoise
LISTEN:
+ from
Impale Golden Horn
