Announcing IARC0006: Ahleuchatistas - Arrebato

Released October 30, 2015
Available on LP/CD/Digital via our Bandcamp page

On Arrebato, Asheville's Ahleuchatistas embellish their  trademark intensity with a more pensive and existential amble. These six pieces channel recollections of a natural kinship the band struck up with a number of communities they played to on an Iberian tour in early 2014. The resulting story  threads together a suite of lyrical instrumentals showing a deepening meticulousness for structure—elastic and labyrinthine.

Spanish for "passionate outburst," Arrebato aptly evokes a rapturous rising from the crust, a seismic unsettling of the status quo. Guitarist Shane Parish and percussionist Ryan Oslance erupt in a fierce declaration of life, wielding a newfound compositional discipline that doesn’t detain but rather uplifts their long-held improvisational valor.

In August of 2014, Parish and Oslance teamed up with friend and International Anthem cofounder David Allen to produce the new material at Chicago's Observatory Studios. Determined to capture a raw impression of their sound, Oslance—wearing an armor of bells, chimes and makeshift percussives—feverishly completed each performance in a single take. Parish left space under his arrangements of guitar loops and layers, and worked closely with Allen over the following months to forge a tuneful cohesion of the players’ tensions.

Rippling through mammoth melodic tectonic movements, Ahleuchatistas raze and reshape conventional sonic terrains as Arrebato calls for revolution in a universal language.