Weather Warlock / Quintron

Weather Warlock / Quintron

Headless Falcon

Rhinestone

***The WEATHER WARLOCK is a musical instrument built by New Orleans artist and musician QUINTRON. The instrument is a large analog synthesizer which is controlled, via a set of outdoor sensors, by the changes in weather. The circuitry employs sun, rain, wind, temperature, moon, and lightning to affect a major-chordal drone with special sonic events occurring at sunrise and sunset. The base recordings for this, the second Weather Warlock album, were made in Abu Dhabi during a live performance on Saadiyat Island. Quintron and New Orleans drummer AARON HILL (EYEHATEGOD) traveled to the UAE to collaborate with a handful of local musicians for one week, composing and rehearsing the this material, prior to the performance. In particular, the album relies heavily on Egyptian master musician, SHERINE THOMAY's electric Oud playing. Side A ventures into new territory for WW—a 16-minute hypnotic techno-Mellotron jam with oud, hand drums, and cinematic desert noise phasing in and out. Side B is a slow burn prog-rock ripper in 9 which, in addition to the Middle Eastern guest musicians, features a New Orleans horn section, snotty GARY WRONG vocals (another WW first), bass rumble from JEN ATTAWAY (SPLIT LIPS, UNNATURALS), and a pure garbage guitar solo by PETE LARSON (Bulb Records, COUCH, etc.), who flew to the UAE from Kenya for the jams. Edition of 500 copies. Includes a download.

Weather Warlock / Quintron

Sunset Waits For No Man

Rhinestone

***WEATHER WARLOCK is the new project from New Orleans organist / instrument builder QUINTRON. This band is based entirely around his latest monster analog weather synthesizer (also called "Weather Warlock"). In short, this instrument takes information from the Weather—sun, rain, temperature, wind, etc.—and translates those daily variables into a randomly bubbling new-agey drone. The main console has a boatload of knobs and controls which can be configured into an infinite number of settings, mutating the weather drone from sublime yoga waves to shrieking thunder bubbles. Side A starts in the mire of an electronic sunset with Quintron at the helm of the Weather Warlock synth, twiddling knobs and responding to the day's waning UV rays. Slowly, the Gulf Coast acid rock emerges courtesy of AARON HILL (EYEHATEGOD, MISSING MONUMENTS) on Drums, GARY WRONG (WIZZARD SLEEVE, VATICAN DAGGER, etc.) on supreme noise guitar, and Quintron on second guitar. Two of New Orleans more prolific free jazz reed players—PAUL GRASS (tenor sax) and TRAVIS BLOTSKEY (baritone sax)—help to glue this mass of southern scum rock to the lineage of serious free music shamans such as Sun Ra and Peter Brotzman. Side B presents the Weather Warlock instrument alone in the drone zone—doing its solo thing during a very active and stormy New Orleans sunset with Quintron occasionally tweaking the controls in harmony. The resulting music is basically a greatest hits of what mother nature and Weather Warlock are capable of by themselves. Limited edition of 500 copies on yellow vinyl.