[photo by Niela Von Till]
Neurot Recordings presents the fourth full-length recorded
document from HARVESTMAN - one of Neurosis vocalist/guitarist Steve Von Till's
solo ventures - with the impending release of Music For Megaliths.
As with prior HARVESTMAN and other solo releases by Steve
Von Till, Music For Megaliths sees the artist handling a wide array of
instruments and approaches, including vocals, electric and acoustic guitars,
bass, synthesizers, hurdy gurdy, effects, and more, fully performed, recorded,
and mixed at his own The Crow's Nest studio in Northern Idaho. Neurosis' Jason
Roeder also provides drums to the album's fifth track, "Levitation."
The seven sonically and mentally expansive tracks were mastered by James
Plotkin, and the album completed with artwork by Thomas Hooper.
Confirming the album for release on May 19th, Neurot has
unveiled the artwork, track listing, and more for the exploratory new album,
with audio samples and more to be released in the coming weeks.
Music For Megaliths Track Listing:
1. The Forest Is Our Temple
2. Oak Drone
3. Ring Of Sentinels
4. Cromlech
5. Levitation
6. Sundown
7. White Horse
"Ruins, monuments, and ancient sites of worship are
multi-sensory experiences - at once residues of the sacred, the parchment on
which the passage of time has been inscribed and templates for imaginative
reconstruction, spaces in which to invest and immerse, to trade your bearings for
an inexhaustible state of transition.
Over the course of three albums, Steve Von Till has, under
the guise of HARVESTMAN, provided the sonic analogue, casting his net for what
might have been and yet still be. Both a personal meditation and a tuning fork
for the most ancient and enduring of resonances, his latest album, Music For
Megaliths, further expands his journeys along the sonic ley lines that run
between folk, drone, psychedelia, the "kosmische" outposts of krautrock
and noise: not as an act of eclecticism, but of divination, giving voice to an
underlying continuity that binds them all.
Recorded over a period of several years in the dawn hours of
creation, Music For Megaliths is an aggregation of moments and recordings that
have allowed themselves to spell out a greater whole. Utilizing repetition,
manipulation, and modulation, it's a hallowed frequency dial that ranges across
the pulse-regulated drone of "The Forest Is Our Temple," revving up
like a generator powered by arcane currents, the blissful gaze of "Ring Of
Sentinels," "Sundown"'s ominous waves of interference and
"White Horse"'s rite of dissolution and regeneration, nomadic and
devout. Music For Megaliths is a crossing over, whose multiple routes are testament
to a singular and sensuously dilated vision." - words by Jonathan Selzer,
2017
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