Elephant 6 fans rejoice! Julian Koster, the man-child behind every eerie singing saw warble in the E6 canon, will return under his moniker Music Tapes with Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes on August 19th via Merge. It's Julian's first release since 1999's First Imaginary Symphony for Nomad and we'll let him sum it up: I just find the imaginary more real than the physical. Magic, the way we find things beautiful, the light behind eyes, kindness, and how we want to serve and protect the things we care about - these things seem like the real foundation of the world to me. I hope that the songs on this record can be more than just postcards from a world, but an invitation to it, to anyone at all who may find such a place comforting and nice.
In addition, Merge reports that a "story album," 2nd Imaginary Symphony for Cloudmaking, is in the works. Sample two tracks from Clouds and Tornadoes below—one in the form of an MP3 stream, the other accompanied by suitably wacky visuals.
MP4: Music Tapes - "Majesty"
Music Tapes - "Minister of Longitude":
