Insect Ark
The wonderfully-named Insect Ark hails from Salt Lake City and is
founded by multi-instrumentalist Dana Schechter, initially as a purely
one-woman act but now expanded to a duo with a drummer along for the
ride.
The style here (as heard on 2018's
Marrow Hymns)
is experimental
instrumental drone-doom with a liberal use of slide guitar,
which pretty much puts Insect Ark on their own plane,
as there are few bands that can even be
listed as vague soundalikes.
Typical of the drone genre, there's little in the way of conventional
song structures and rhythms, but plenty of pyschedelic atmosphere and
sparse soundscapes, and the way the slide guitar bends and weaves is
mesmerizing.
Recent album: Raw Blood Singing,
released on June 7, 2024.
Former Members/Guests
Ashley Spungin
drums/keyboards
Andy Patterson
drums (The Otolith, ex-SubRosa)
Discography
Long Arms
2013
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- Long Arms
- Lift Off
- Symbols
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Portal/Well
2015
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- Portal/Well
- The Collector
- Lowlands
- Octavia
- Crater Lake
- Taalith
- Parallel Twin
- Low Moon
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Marrow Hymns
2018
Profound Lore
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- Thelema
- Arp 9
- In the Nest
- Skin Walker
- Slow Ray
- Sea Harps
- Tarnish
- Windless
- Daath
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-
Dana Schechter
-
Ashley Spungin
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The Vanishing
2020
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- Tectonic
- Three Gates
- Philae
- Danube
- Swollen Sun
- The Vanishing
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-
Dana Schechter
-
Andy Patterson
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Future Fossils
EP
2021
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- Oral Thrush
- Gypsum Blade
- Anopsian Volta
- Gravitrons
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Raw Blood Singing
2024
Debemur Morti
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- Birth of a Black Diamond
- The Frozen Lake
- Youth Body Swayed
- Cleaven Hearted
- The Hands
- Psychological Jackal
- Inverted Whirlpool
- Ascension
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-
Dana Schechter
-
Tim Wyskida
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