Konzert / Electro & Ambient Arms & sleepers + ben shepard (of uzi & ari)

ARMS & SLEEPERS began one night in the back of an ambulance in Cambridge. In an alleyway a man was bleeding with a cassette player in hand, the play button still on. What sounded like recordings of a gospel choir blared from the tin speaker, while down the street a jazz band could be heard. The man was dying. He dropped the cassette player on the cement and closed his eyes, the sound carrying through the air into his ears for one last time. Though this moment in time died with him, his cassette lived on — and Arms and Sleepers were born. Persistent international touring and constant dissemination of their sounds makes Arms and Sleepers a worthy opponent for the typical temporal constraints that can befall a band. Listening to A&S feels like sitting in a cinema, watching landscapes, beauty and tragedy — feeling warm and safe while a hint of mystery seems to whisper that not everything is ok out there. File under Ambient / Indietronic. For friends of: Boards of Canada, Uzi & Ari, Sigur Rós. BEN SHEPARD is one of those artists that cannot help but create. Although on the road Uzi & Ari plays as a full complement of musicians in order to capture the complex and beautiful sounds that populate its recorded efforts, it is unambiguously the work of its originator, Shepard, who has an urgent muse.