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The Ochre World | Million Lands

The Ochre World by Million Lands, released 24 April 2020 1. Gisant 2. Ancient Wisdom 3. Numen 4. Cantillation 5. The Ochre World Million Lands is drummer Kid Millions (Man Forever, Oneida) and trombonist/guitarist/electronic manipulator Benjamin Lanz (Beirut, The National). A collaborative, co-compositional duo, Million Lands has long history beyond the release of their first record, The Ochre World, would suggest (including time in a Division 1 basketball pep band! in 2003). But it took some years for Kid and Ben to settle into a regular basement noise hang. What came out of these rolling-tape sessions could be described as a post-instrumental haze of dubbed out, free referentialism touching on a myriad of reference points - from Bitches Brew to Disintegration. Kid and Lanz have made a priority out of subverting traditional approaches to their instruments and weave this energy together for their first mind-blowing release on Ernest Jenning Records. They will be doing a number of …