Heavy Winged



Heavy Winged regularly lock into relentless motorik grooves, super repetitive, the guitar slowly building momentum, with sheets of high end, streaks of feedback and a wall of buzz lifting you ever higher. Imagine a deranged lysergic-fuelled scientist taking a lost Fushitsusha jam and slowing it down in the lab to examine it more closely...a time lapse film of a 'psych jam' captured in the wild. For most of their releases, the trio set up in a room and play. Totally improvised and recorded to 4 track. Wildly ecstatic...and the "song" only finishes when it feels right for it to finish.

The Wire reckoned one release sounded like "...a vast blank wall of a monolithic windowless tower block, seemingly featureless from a distance, but so rough up close that it tears skin from flesh and flesh from bone." Fair enough, I reckon, if you like that kind of effusive review! This ain't Explosions In The Sky! This is some serious psychedelic heaviness, blissfully blown out and weirdly hypnotic.

I've followed this band for a few years now. Even so, I nip to the shops to find out they've sneaked out another ridiculously limited release...and it's sold out! The last 4 of the posts have no release date or label info...any help out there?

2006 - Heavy Winged - A Serpent's Lust [foxglove]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Echoes Of Silence [deep water acres]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Hunting The Moon [ruralfaune]
2006 - Heavy Winged - Taking The Veil [students of decay]
2007 - Ashtray Navigations & Cold Solemn Rites In The Sun & Heavy Winged - Split [ruralfaune]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Blacc Stork [students of decay]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Enough Rope [cut hands]
2007 - Heavy Winged - Feel Inside [archive]
2007 - Heavy Winged - On The Marble Cliffs [trensmat]
2007 - Heavy Winged - The Very Eye Of The Night [whistle along records]
2007 - Heavy Winged - We Grow (lp) [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Blues Control - Split (7'') [not not fun records]
2007 - Heavy Winged & Taiga Remains - Split (lp) [not not fun records]
2008 - Heavy Winged - A Blanket Of Ash [no label]
2008 - Heavy Winged - Alive In My Mouth [three lobed recordings]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Shaking, Waking (lp) [aurora borealis]
2009 - Heavy Winged - Spreading Center [release the bats records]
2009 - Heavy Winged & Inca Ore - Ring Mining (lp) [not not fun records]
2009 - Windy & Carl and Heavy Winged - Monolith Earth [music fellowship]

Heavy Winged - 1st
Heavy Winged - Katrina
Heavy Winged - Mojito
Heavy Winged - Split Lip


10 comments:

Alexander James Brighton 12 March 2010 at 04:04  

great post... but i think the Feel Inside file has the wrong songs in it. could you check it out, maybe i'm wrong. thanks!

badgerstump 12 March 2010 at 10:44  

Hi Alexander...no, you're dead right. Not sure what happened there. Uploading a rip of my cd now...

badgerstump 12 March 2010 at 13:23  

Problem sorted...thanks for letting me know...

Anonymous,  5 April 2010 at 05:22  

OMFG DUDE YES heavy winged & inca ore

Unknown 11 May 2010 at 19:58  

thanks for the love! i play guitar in this wing'ed outfit. i havent really looked at our disography all written in one place! 2 great releases are comin up this year. one on 3Lobed and one on Type.
thanks!
Ryan

Anonymous,  18 June 2010 at 02:19  

The Three Lobed release just came out, I'm pretty sure...

Josh,  24 November 2010 at 08:44  

Whoah, this is a good band. Thanks!

Anonymous,  9 July 2011 at 14:52  

Blacc Stork is incorrect..it's Blacc Lust (2007)

Anonymous,  9 July 2011 at 16:20  

never mind...didnt see there was a limited to 50 Black Sessions release