Embrace by Dogs Of Pleasure
“Dogs of Pleasure is raw, visceral, energised. To me it sounds like a big, life affirming ‘fuck you’. But it’s also incredibly refined and focused music making that is the result of (perhaps that could only be the result of) years of collaboration between these two extraordinary musicians. I love this album and everything it represents.”
- Peter Knight (trumpeter/composer/sound artist)
EMBRACE is the culmination of more than 15 years of experimentation and ongoing collaboration between drummer Alf Jackson and guitarist Julius Schwing, having arrived at a way of playing purely their own and based on a shared desire to create ecstatic and cathartic moments of improvised energy.
This music is born out of a deep appreciation of the natural world and a life lived amongst the elements. Visceral and virtuosic, Embrace is an album that captures two musicians completely comfortable in each others sonic company, welded together by a mutual desire to spread a sense of release and empowerment.
These 6 pieces were captured in a single afternoon in the Isthmus Music headquarters, “The Hall” studio in Adventure Bay on Lunawanna-Alonnah/Bruny Island, Tasmania.
Tracklist
| 1. | Release the Hounds | 10:43 |
| 2. | Quarry | 6:31 |
| 3. | Stretchmarks, Pigtails and Bloodlines | 9:50 |
| 4. | Buzzcut | 4:21 |
| 5. | The Bagman | 4:50 |
| 6. | Embrace | 8:45 |
Credits
Recorded 7th July 2022 in The Hall, Lunawanna-Alonnah/Bruny Island, Tasmania.
Alf Jackson - drums
Julius Schwing - electric guitar
Tracked, mixed and mastered by DOP with initial guidance in the mixing phase by Chris Townend.
Art and design - DOP
License
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Wild music from a wild place. Welcome to the home of Julius Schwing’s creative music label Isthmus Music. Julius is an improvising guitarist and composer based on Bruny Island, Lutruwita/Tasmania.