Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announce New Instrumental Album, Share “Hanoi 6”
The album was recorded with local musicians in Hanoi, Vietnam
Photo by Neil Krug
Unknown Mortal Orchestra have shared the spacey new instrumental “Hanoi 6” from their forthcoming album of instrumental outtakes, IC-01 Hanoi, out Oct. 26 on Jagjaguwar.
During the recording process for UMO’s previous album Sex & Food, the band found themselves adrift in Hanoi, Vietnam, for a period of time. They ended up at Phu Sa Studios, where they teamed up with local musician Minh Nguyen to record an album of blown-out avant-garde jazz. The end result is something in the lineage of Brian Eno’s pre-ambient works or Miles Davis’ more devilish fusion projects.
“Hanoi 6” is 10 minutes of lumbering didgeridoos and ghost-in-the-machine sax lines, a sprawling song that begs the comparison to some cyberpunk back-alley nightmare. The soundscapes are enveloping, the crescendoes catastrophic. It sounds like if UMO took just one bar from their last album and blew it up to macroscopic proportions to poke around in.
UMO will be continuing their world tour throughout the rest of the year.
Listen to “Hanoi 6” below, and check out their 2011 Daytrotter Session and tour dates further down.