Mountains

About Mountains

Mountains are an American drone band, originally from Chicago. They are based in New York. Formed by school friends Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, the band's first two albums were released on their own label, Apestaartje with subsequent releases on the Thrill Jockey Records label.

Inception: 1999

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Discography

Albums

Mountains (Apestaartje, 2005)

Sewn (Apestaartje, 2006)

Mountains Mountains Mountains (Catsup Plate, 2008, reissued by Thrill Jockey, 2013)

Choral (Thrill Jockey, 2009)

Air Museum (Thrill Jockey, 2011)

Centralia (Thrill Jockey, 2013)

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Notable quotes

“I remember at Chamouni – in the very eyes of Mont Blanc – hearing another woman – English also – exclaim to her party – "did you ever see any thing more rural".”
— Lord Byron, Journal entry for September 17, 1816.
“A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.”
— Francis Kilvert, Diary, May 29, 1871.
“Woher kommen die höchsten Berge? so fragte ich einst. Da lernte ich, daß sie aus dem Meere kommen. Dies Zeugnis ist in ihr Gestein geschrieben und in die Wände ihrer Gipfel. Aus dem Tiefsten muß das Höchste zu seiner Höhe kommen.”
— Where do the highest mountains come from? I once asked. Then I learned that they come from out of the sea. The evidence is inscribed in their stone and in the walls of their summits. It is from the deepest that the highest must come to its height.
“You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.”
— Henry David Thoreau, letter to Harrison Blake (November 16, 1857).
“When you reach the top of the mountain, keep climbing.”
— Quoted as a Zen koan in Kevin Grange, "Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World" (2011), p. 284.
“The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.”
— Tachos, King of Egypt.

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