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Fishing lines, mobile phones and Wirral wind: the oddly harmonious music of Ex-Easter Island Head

For 15 years, the Liverpool band have been making some of the boldest experiments in British music (around their day jobs). They explain why quietness and community are so important in a chaotic world

Their intricate sound and percussive approach to stringed instruments is hypnotic, eerily mechanical and shimmering, leading to performances alongside the likes of William Basinski, Colin Stetson and Rhys Chatham. Duvall is a fiend for aeolian harps – literal wind instruments – and for Norther, they installed one on the roof of Bidston Observatory in Birkenhead, an artistic research centre and one of the highest points in the area, recording the sounds that blew through with a contact mic. Some experimental music can be fiercely dry live, but EEIH are conscious of being proper performers, laying bare the connection between gesture and sounds that many listeners assume must be electronic (though the wind is played on a sampler).

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