Hillulah

The period of late 2003 through early 2004 was extremely fruitful for Gang Gang Dance. Every show was different as the band constantly experimented and pushed the limitations of their equipment to create new music. In the days approaching an event the band would disappear and practice non-stop, workshopping material to create a unique live set for the performance. The results were at their most basic the epoch of practiced improvisation and at their heights the music equivalent of spiritual Hillulah.

Originally cut together as a CDR in November of 2004 for a tour with Animal Collective, Hillulah was compiled from live recordings of such performances. The material was sewn together by GGD drummer Tim Dewitt over a marathon seventy-two hour session at Junkyard Audio Salvage; the fruit of this work comes together in a way that defies the conventions of most ‘live’ albums. In the resulting forty minute montage creates a listening experience very much akin to a GGD performance: an audible onslaught which grabs the listener within the first few moments and removes them from the experiential world for the breadth of the set returning them to the natural world in an altered state, exhausted and overwhelmed.