MONTEVALE - figure and ground LP Dark Ambient the record captures not merely

the record captures not merely Crowley at the apex of his songwriting  powersbut also the creative lava that can flow when two perfectly aligned musical minds come together

featuring the slowest band on earth in an even more reduced and slow motion style

Growing up in 1960s New York he was deeply influenced by modal and free jazz

News of his talent even reached producers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in the late 1970s

This is their first record together

MONTEVALE - figure and ground LP Dark Ambient the record captures not merelyMontevale are Thomas Sattig and Ahlie Schaubel. Ahlie has been active as a singer for over two decades, having co founded German Riot Grrrl band elektrolochmann and Post Hardcore band Monochrome in the 1990s. Together with Thomas, an academic philosopher and night time composer, she formed Montevale in the 2000s. Montevale build songs for piano, horns, entangled voices, and various sorts of harmonic dirt. They released their EP Papertricks in 2005,