Alternative
United States
Geist & the Sacred Ensemble
O umělci Geist & the Sacred Ensemble
Rodné město
Seattle, WA, United States
Datum narození
2006
Žánr
Alternative
Employing an intoxicating blend of dark folk, Eastern mysticism-informed psych-rock, and doom-laden Americana that invokes names like Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, Calexico, and Six Organs of Admittance, Seattle, Washington's Geist and the Sacred Ensemble were formed in 2006 by frontman Michael Sauder and percussionist Samuel Yoder. Citing inspirations like Ennio Morricone and George Crumb, and drawing from Sauder's formative years in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he spent time as a grave digger, the band's highly cinematic, largely acoustic, semi-apocalyptic doom folk first saw the light of day in 2008 with the release of a self-titled EP under the name Geist & Samuel Joseph. The following year saw the duo expand into a small collective and officially adopt the Geist and the Sacred Ensemble moniker, and in 2011 they issued their full-length debut album, In Search of Fabled Lands, on cassette via the Seattle independent Translinguistic Other. A second cassette, Beyond This Vessel, arrived a few years later, this time through the Oakland, California-based Moon Glyph label. ~ James Christopher Monger
