An Ambassador For Laing is the debut album by Dalhous. It arrived in the wake of their 10" Mitchell Heisman, released by Blackest Ever Black in April 2013. The Edinburgh-based duo of Marc Dall and Alex Ander work with intricately stacked percussion, dubwise bass and a rich harmonic tapestry of processed voices, keys, harp, vibraphone, guitar, woodwind, strings and synthesiser - every sound re-sampled to the nth degree then subjected to subtle automation and rigorously fine-tuned over a period of many months. From the mesmerised pastoral drift of 'Anger Sees Red' and 'Dwelling By The Meadow' to agitated arabesques like 'The Physical Body' and the self-titled 'Dalhous', An Ambassador For Laing is a record that explores dreamlike but often treacherous terrain. Eleven questions in a world of blue. Edinburgh based duo Dalhous are architects of a pastoral psychedelia that taps into the British visionary tradition and incorporates elements of isolationist electronics, noir jazz and intricately stacked, not-quite-industrial rhythm. In the words of The Wire, “a frequently beautiful music, whose often calm surface belies the powerful currents moving beneath it.” Their live sets are all-hardware, seance-like affairs making disorienting use of found film footage and relics of radical psychiatry. The debut LP An Ambassador For Laing is out now on esteemed London label Blackest Ever Black. Released 06/12/13 on vinyl and digital formats. User-contributed text is available under the Cr