Petrels

Petrels: The Dusk Loom (Indie Exclusive) [Vinyl LP]

A swirling cataract of a record, a deluge of beautiful noise and crushing melody, which ebbs and flows beneath the surface. Utilizing bowed strings, bent electronics, found percussion and occasional vocals, the record unfolds over seven tracks and fifty minutes. "Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011. It's as if Barrett has launched his solo career as Petrels by giving us his own Sisyphus narrative, and somehow it sounds dreadfully authentic - no small feat. Haeligewielle is an album so dense and immersive you sometimes feel as though you are drowning or being smothered, but that's exactly the way it's supposed to feel." (Brendan Moore, Fluid Radio) Vinyl: thick sleeve + thick printed inner sleeve, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code Cd: special double cardboard sleeve Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels

Petrels: All Things In Common [Vinyl 10"]

Onkalo is the follower of the highly praised Petrels concept debut album Haeligewielle ("Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011." (Fluid Radio) + "The album is a masterpiece of narrative, a blackened ship with a broken mast that defies the storm and in so doing discovers its own dark destiny." (8.5/ 10 - The Silent Ballet) Petrels second album - after acclaimed debut Haeligewielle - draws on a fascination with how we deal with what is left over, both physically and mentally. With this thread running through Onkalo, Petrels also takes inspiration from speculative science, immense time scales, retro-futurism, personal history, and how the post-war optimism of the dawn of the atomic age has come up against a more uncertain vision of the future. Vinyl: thick sleeve, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code Cd: nice digipak packaging Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels

MIMA is the third album on Denovali Records from London-based musician Oliver Barrett - aka PETRELS. Following on from the highly praised Petrels debut Haeligewielle ("Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011." - Fluid Radio) and second album Onkalo ("A calm, thoughtful place in the centre of a universe tearing itself apart." - Muzik Dizcovery) Mima is a further development and distillation of the distinctive sonic palette and inquisitive approach that have come to characterise Petrels so far. Drawing inspiration from wide-ranging sources, Mima is another immersive sonic landscape from Petrels - more interested in posing questions than providing easy answers. For fans of TIM HECKER, FENNESZ, HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels Cd: nice digipak covers Vinyl: thick covers + thick printed inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, two different vinyl colours, free download

The Silver Chimney Club / Wat Tyler comprises two long form tracks written between between "Onkalo" and the latest Petrels album "Mima". Originally released for a short while in digital format they're now presented here in re-mastered form with new artwork for this release. Since releasing his debut "Haeligewielle" in 2011, Petrels has toured across Europe and shared a stage with the likes of Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Fennesz, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster). Having also collaborated with and provided remixes for artists as varied as Duane Pitre, Brassica, Talvihorros and Max Cooper, Petrels' output is proving to be thrillingly eclectic and unpredictable. For fans of TIM HECKER, FENNESZ, HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels Cd: nice digipak covers Vinyl: thick covers + thick printed inner sleeves, 180g vinyl, two different vinyl colours, free download

Petrels returns in May with thunderous new album, Flailing Tomb, to be released via Denovali Records. Taking the exhilaratingly huge sonic expanse that Petrels has become known for and pushing it further still, Flailing Tomb draws on a breathtaking sonic palette of influences and instrumentation to craft perhaps the strongest Petrels release to date. With a much broader range of instrumentation and contributors than previous Petrels albums - from the melodic cacophony of album opener We Are Falling Into the Heart Of The Sun, to the euphoric choral backdrop of Orpheus with a lead vocal from NEVER SOL and the epic motorik finale of L. Caution - Flailing Tomb is both an expansion on and refinement of the Petrels sound and an album that confirms the arrival of a singular artist. Vinyl: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves, 2 different vinyl colors, 180g vinyl, free download code Cd: nice digipak packaging Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels