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elephant stone
montreal, can

Just one short year after the release of their acclaimed, Polaris Music Prize-nominated debut The Seven Seas, Montreal¡¯s Elephant Stone returns with The Glass Box EP. Shunning the convenience of modern digital recording, The Glass Box EP was recorded on a vintage Nieve console (allegedly used by Led Zeppelin during the Physical Graffiti sessions) to a 16-track 2¡å tape machine at Montreal¡¯s infamous Breakglass Studios. Working within the creative confines of an all-analog recording and mixing process, Elephant Stone has given birth to a 5-song suite of inspired power-pop/psyche classics.
Elephant Stone is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Rishi Dhir. A founding member of Montreal pop / psyche veterans the High Dials, Rishi grew disillusioned with the Rock n¡¯ Roll lifestyle and went out on his own in 2006. He spent the next few years studying Indian classical music and performing sitar on records by drone-rock heroes the Black Angels and prog-prop innovators the Earlies. In 2008, he found himself drawn back to his love of pop music and The Seven Seas was born. Perfectly melding Rishi¡¯s obsession with the perfect pop song and the trippiest raga, The Seven Seas was warmly embraced by the global indie-scene and long-listed for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize.
The Glass Box EP builds upon the promise shining through on The Seven Seas as Elephant Stone continues to delivery power-pop/psyche (or as they call it¨Ctongue planted firmly in cheek¨C"hindie-rock") gems. The Glass Box EP is being lovingly released around the world digitally and on beautiful 12¡å vinyl with artwork by *Pardon My Hindi.
2010 will be Elephant Stone¡¯s busiest year yet: a Spring US/Canda tour with cult-heroes, and old friends, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, an inaugural summer tour of the UK/Europe, and North American fall dates with fellow Montrealers the Besnard Lakes.
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