Rollerball – Two Feathers LP - the corners of the cover have very light wear from shipping to the vendor

Rollerball – Two Feathers LP

The corners of the cover have very light wear from shipping to Stickfigure

Fourteen albums in and fifteen years deep, Rollerball, bring their outward bound song structures laced with dark jazz and noise funk back to the US via Portland label, North Pole Records. A living / breathing recording ethic, five Euro-pean tours, constant West Coast presence, and underground cred that can’t be beat, Rollerball, is an established institutioninfluencing what bands sound like in Portland, Oregon and throughout the world. Two Feathers is Rollerball’s first domes-tic release since 2005’s Catholic Paws/Catholic Pause. The past two albums, Rollerball and Ahura were available only on
avant super label, Wallace Records based in Italy, a country that has long championed Rollerball.

The rhythm section, Gilles on drums and Monte Trent Allen on bass, drop extended deep grooves and lock-step rhythm changes, anchoring Two Feathers‘ sound with wizened authority and practiced ability. Amidst layers of intriguing percussion, electronic murk, and the damp acoustic hollowness of Amanda Mason Wiles’ saxophone poetry, Mae Starr weaves intricate and inventive keyboard magic. Her fingers swallowed by rings that stream up and pounce down the keyboard, evoking powerful vocalists like PJ Harvey or June Tyson, and casting spells over a rapt audience.

Hard to describe and impossible to pin down, Rollerball, has been praised throughout their storied career by The Wire, Pitchfork, Brainwashed, Blow Up, Fake Jazz, The Oregonian, Terrascope, Mercury, Stranger, etc., and played on radio stations around the world. They have released music on Roadcone, Cochon, Silber, Jalopy Grotto, Nillacat, Pacific Wonderland, and Felina y magia in the States and Bar la muerte, Wallace, and Hysm in Italy. Rollerball has been compared to Sun Ra, New Order, Cereberus Shoal, JOMF, Califone, and Can.