Tall Firs - Ghostlight by ATP Recordings and Archive

The first track to be released from the new TALL FIRS' album Ghostlight Ensemble

Available soon on ATP Recordings
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Tall Firs is the partnership of songwriter-guitarists Aaron Mullan and Dave Mies. Since their 2013 US tour with Jeff Mangum, Tall Firs have only played a handful of festivals and shows while concentrating on health and family. But in the shadows, they’ve been laboring away at a collaborative set of recordings more sonically expansive than any of their previous work.
The nucleus of the project is an eviscerating ten-song collection written and recorded in bare-bones fashion by Dave Mies of Tall Firs. Building on that foundation, Tall Firs went about collecting accompaniments and improvisations by a host of brilliant musicians they’ve worked with over the years. After they’d amassed a veritable library of takes and sometimes wildly different retakes of the same songs, Tall Firs went about painstakingly editing the final product. The result is an incredibly lush, unpredictable album that hangs together as a long-form work of sound exploration, as well as a collection of lyric-driven songs with legs enough to stand alone.
Folks on this record include members of Thurston Moore Band, Sparklehorse, Candy Machine, Soft Location, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Glass Rock, Hallogallo, Jukeboxer, and a million other projects these accomplished musicians have contributed to.