Oracle | |
Type: | EP |
Artist: | Sunn O))) |
Cover: | Oracle (EP).jpg |
Released: | 2007 |
Recorded: | 2006 |
Genre: | Drone metal, dark ambient |
Length: | 34:38; including Helio)))sophist 80:55 |
Label: | Southern Lord SUNN77 |
Prev Title: | La Mort Noir dans Esch/Alzette |
Prev Year: | 2006 |
Next Title: | Dømkirke |
Next Year: | 2008 |
Oracle is an EP by American drone metal band Sunn O))). The track "Orakalum" was recorded as part of a collaboration between the band and sculptor/installation artist Banks Violette for an exhibit at London's Maureen Paley gallery. The exhibit took place in two rooms: one with a black stage where the band recorded "Orakulum" with Attila Csihar locked inside a white coffin, and one with a white replica of the band's stage set up (including amps and guitars) cast out of salt and resin with a destroyed black coffin. The audience was locked outside for the performance and let inside after the band left "to generate a feeling of absence, loss and a phantom of what was."[1] [2] [3]