Wurld

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies! The 10" vinyl package contains a custom screen-printed 25 pt. chipboard gatefold jacket with front cover die-cut window and DVD inserted in a printed sleeve (and then placed inside the vinyl jacket). It also includes a 10" x 10" full color insert card; a 5" x 7" full-color title/credit insert and a set of three full-color 5" x 7" postcards featuring stills from the Wulrd film (each of which can be positioned to shine through the window cut) printed on 80C Proterra Oyster paper; and a larger 10"x20" duotone art print poster. The DVD also includes the following extras: the Elfin Saddle concert filmed at MACM (see below); a sequence of "deleted scenes" from the Wulrd piece; a film of the rotating sculpture installed at the MACM set to the music of one of the new instrumental pieces; a video document of a 2005 installation piece by Emi and Jordan, that helps contextualize the couple's broader art practice and history; and thirty minutes of extractable WAV and MP3 unreleased audio files, featuring the fifteen minute abridged and re-mastered version of the Wulrd soundtrack, and another fifteen minutes of music additionally highlighting the band's instrumental work (also pressed onto the vinyl)!

Elfin Saddle began working with Constellation in late 2008 when the label invited the group to record a new album at the Hotel2Tango studio in Montreal. Ringing for the Begin Again appeared in spring 2009. At the same time, the band's co-founders were also completing a year-long art project involving sculpture, stop-motion animation and time lapse video. Using the backyard of their Montreal apartment as an installation site, Emi and Jordan evolved and devolved an entire miniature world, conjuring an historical arc of civilization from early settlement and relative harmony with nature to gradual industrialization, mechanization and the inevitable discontents of over-production, waste and decline. Emi and Jordan worked on this installation every day for a year, meticulously building, shaping and documenting its trajectory with time-lapse video while also shooting many detailed sequences with stop-motion photography. The resulting work is a wondrous, unpretentious, gently mystical twenty-three minute video piece entitled Wulrd, for which they also composed the soundtrack. Wulrd premiered at the Vienna International Film Festival in November 2009 and received a Canadian premiere at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2010. Both screenings were also followed by a live performance. For the Montreal screening, Jordan and Emi were given carte blanche to create a new sculptural installation to accompany the live performance, reflecting the couple's decade-long practice as installation artists and makers of kinetic sculpture. Their MACM sculpture comprised a large rotating disc loaded with minutiae, close-lit and video-projected onto a large screen behind the band. The live performance was filmed by Constellation in conjunction with the MACM technical staff and the video was edited by Seth W. Owen.