The Ascent of Everest

Music

FEATURED SONG

Play
Play Next
Add to queue

Return To Us

Album:

Released: Jan 1, 2010

Label:

1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Return To Us
6:31
8,825 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Dark, Dark My Light
6:08
4,391 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
The Sea Rose Up
7:29
6,946 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
The Journey Forever Long
11:07
3,945 plays
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Molotov
5:42
41,249 plays

Total Plays: 121,614 / Plays Today: 1See All Featured ►

General Info

Genre: Ambient / Experimental / Shoegaze
Location Nashville, Un
Profile Views: 235959
Last Login: 3/4/2012
Member Since 5/5/2005
Website this is it
Record Label shelsmusic, futurerecordings, meltface
Type of Label Indie
Bio
The Ascent of Everest is currently booking US, CAN, and EU dates in April and May of 2012 and have availabilities for booking and spots for local support. contact meltfaceinc(at)gmail.com for specifics. ***BOOKING: theascentofeverest@gmail.com (US) filip@itsokbooking.com (Europe)*** The Ascent Of Everest is an 8-piece orchestral experimental rock outfit that wants to take you on an unforgettable journey. Fluttering with delicate build ups and soaring through emotional choruses that cascade into breathtaking noisescapes juxtaposed against bizarre electronic textures, TAOE create music that surprises you with surreal sounds, progressive composition, and epic beauty. Formed in Nashville TN in the spring of 2005, AOE has released three records, toured the US and UK, and played countless shows sharing the stage with such bands as A Silver Mt. Zion, The Drift, Balmorhea, By The End of Tonight, Rasputina, Cannon Blue, Tides, Kayo Dot, Sparrows Swarm and Sing, This Will Destroy You, Giant, Bloody Panda, The Whigs, Rinoa, Lattitudes, Sons of Noel and Adrian, and Bloodiest. The band is currently planning to tour the US and Europe in support "From This Vantage" out June 1st 2010 on CD from Shelsmusic Ltd & on limited edition 180 gram colored vinyl from Futurerecordings.
Members
ashley, casey, chris, corey, devin, dillon, drew, jeff, jon
Influences
we're only consenting to this listing off other artists thing for the sake of people using search engines to find music, there's lots out there you know.... krzysztof pendereki, george crumb, arvo part, dmitri shostakovich, christian fennesz, clint mansell, harry manfredini, philip glass, steve reich, brian eno, harold budd, robin guthrie .. cocteau twins, bang on a can, stars of the lid, bark psychosis, slowdive, auburn lull, can, spiritualized, a northern chorus, efterklang, ester drang, murcof, manual, colleen, boards of canada, tides, my bloody valentine, low, the dirty three, vibracathedral orchestra, nick cave and warren ellis, the mercury program, grails, elbow, woven hand, the black angels, acid mothers temple, kayo dot, psychic ills, mono, boris, xela, refused, la bradford, godspeed you black emperor!, neurosis, constellation records, the leaf label, darla records, neurot recordings, temporary residence records, sunroof!, sigur ros, caribou, dead meadow, tarentel, the black heart procession, earth, deerhunter, minsk, fissure, the dead hippies
Sounds Like
krzysztof pendereki, george crumb, arvo part, dmitri shostakovich, christian fennesz, clint mansell, harry manfredini, philip glass, steve reich, brian eno, harold budd, robin guthrie .. cocteau twins, bang on a can, stars of the lid, bark psychosis, slowdive, auburn lull, can, spiritualized, a northern chorus, efterklang, ester drang, murcof, manual, colleen, boards of canada, tides, my bloody valentine, low, the dirty three, vibracathedral orchestra, nick cave and warren ellis, the mercury program, grails, elbow, woven hand, the black angels, acid mothers temple, kayo dot, psychic ills, mono, boris, xela, refused, la bradford, godspeed you black emperor!, neurosis, constellation records, the leaf label, darla records, neurot recordings, temporary residence records, sunroof!, sigur ros, caribou, dead meadow, tarentel, the black heart procession, earth, deerhunter, minsk, fissure, the dead hippies

More ▼Less ▲

The Ascent of Everest - From This Vantage
meltface records

Download Share

The Ascent of Everest is currently booking US and EU dates and have availabilities for booking and spots for local support. contact meltfaceinc(at)gmail.com for specifics
May 7-20 Central Europe

The Ascent Of Everest is an 8-piece orchestral experimental rock outfit that wants to take you on an unforgettable journey. Fluttering with delicate build ups and soaring through emotional choruses that cascade into breathtaking noisescapes juxtaposed against bizarre electronic textures, TAOE create music that surprises you with surreal sounds, progressive composition, and epic beauty. Formed in Nashville TN in the spring of 2005, AOE has released three records, toured the US and UK, and played countless shows sharing the stage with such bands as A Silver Mt. Zion, The Drift, Balmorhea, By The End of Tonight, Rasputina, Cannon Blue, Tides, Kayo Dot, Sparrows Swarm and Sing, This Will Destroy You, Giant, Bloody Panda, The Whigs, Rinoa, Lattitudes, Sons of Noel and Adrian, and Bloodiest. The band is currently planning to tour the US and Europe in support "From This Vantage" out June 1st 2010 on CD from Shelsmusic Ltd & on limited edition 180 gram colored vinyl from Futurerecordings.

“The songs communicate sentiments that simply cannot be put into words.”

- Performer Magazine

"TAOE possess a classicism that genuinely sets them apart from so many of their supposed peers"

- Rock Sound Magazine

“TAOE’s always lovely orchestral-rock tunes will break your heart if you let them; cello and violin mixed with brass and more (as well as the usual guitar/bass and drums) give them the ability to create moments of epic noise as well as the intimate, gentle swirls they do so well. This album gives you the full sweep of their abilities and shows them off brilliantly, making you want to come back for more over and over again."

- Emma Gould - Room 13

"Think of a more adventurous take on latter day Mono, or Johnny Greenwood collaborating with Sigur Ros... This is tremendously atmospheric, cinematic music that will probably beguile as many as it will charm."

- Rob Sayce - Subba Cultcha

"As chiming guitars clash with doom-laden cello, shimmering pianos mesh with soaring violins, whilst the masterful rhythm section helps guide the sound to a series of cacophonous and quite often apocalyptic crescendos. Whilst this is ground GSYBE! Have clearly plundered before, TAOE aren’t walking on anyone else’s path, they’re forging their own way to the top."

- Chris Hidden

“AOE has created a unique sound full of swirling textures, intensely beautiful soundscapes, and exploding crescendos.”

- Panoptic Journalism Ltd.

“… string-heavy outfit who’s freely psychedelic post-rock is something like Dirty Three on acid. “

– Nashville Scene

“transports you into a Yann Tiersen film soundtrack, haunting, gripping, and always just a little unsteady”

– Bearded.com

"The segues are often huge and greatly overlapping, which results in some extremely cinematic or cathartic passages… Undoubtedly this is one of the better instrumental releases from the U.S. in 2006, if not the world at large."

– Jordan Volz - Silent Ballet .. ..