Balam Acab: Advanced Wedding Bells?

Balam Acab, who has released some of my favorite music of the past few years has been recently going H.A.M. on his twitter account and ADVANCED has been the beneficiary...somehow getting involved in an awesome flirt-fest between Balam Acab and Grimes! And now the man himself has put me up on game about an unreleased track from his days recording as Etherea! That whole project was insanely good and sounds like Balam Acab's gorgeous spaciness filtered through J. Dilla-style hip-hop. You can grab Free Etherea here and it features sweet remixes of Animal Collective, St. Vincent, Josephine Foster and a Wavves/DOOM mashup remix. If that doesn't make you excited you are crazy.

Anyhow, the unreleased track is called "In Church" and is a heavenly choir of organ drones and church bells surrounded by the aqueous noises that have become his signature sound and a beat that reminds me of rocking gently in a boat. One can only hope these church bells are foreshadowing wedding bells ringing for he and Grimes in what would be perhaps the greatest musical partnership since Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth or Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo. Gossipy, hopeful, half-jokes aside, thanks so much to Balam Acab for being so cool and down-to-earth as well as making such beautiful music.

Etherea - "In Church"