Meadow Thrum by Eiyn Sof

PHYSICAL COPIES (Cd-R) AVAILABLE AT https://arachnidiscs.bandcamp.com/album/meadow-thrum

Meadow Thrum is a murmuring attempt at animating an imagined landscape, and all manner of anthropomorphic entity within. I’ve been thinking of this album as druidic lore-play; it’s some pretty decadent fantasy. Hyper visual and hyper surrealistic, as far as lyrics are concerned. Threading in a lot of ’irreverent’ and intentionally loose percussive and organic sounds among more careful and familiar melodic stuff, which is gently reflective, I think, of the overarching concept and heart of the thing: play between two worlds. Above/below.

Sound: a whole lotta sprawling polyphonic vocal stuff, including a small men’s chorus, droning, and percussion using throat, tongue and breath. Lots of table-tapping, hairbrush-bristles-on-paper, jewelry jangling, and some cutting and pasting of found battle sounds (swords clinking, drop-kicks, etc.) And of course, analog synth (Juno 60) and piano, acoustic string instruments (toy guitars, autoharp), electric bass, and bird song- mostly cardinals, robins and grackles...

Tracklist

1.	Volcano	0:28

2.	Lunar Ship	2:48

3.	Two Thousand Paws	2:27

4.	Bogland	2:20

5.	Battleaxis	0:23

6.	The Heirophant	2:32

7.	Squirrel's Gold	3:31

8.	Pond Lights	1:10

9.	Alone	2:26

10.	You're On A Hill	2:56

11.	In The Fount	0:19

12.	Pyre	2:40

13.	On Beyond	3:20

14.	Groundling	1:37

15.	Orchard	4:18

Credits

released March 20, 2017

Feat. The Foggy Bog Men's Choir (Soren Brothers, Donovan Owsiak, Paul Copoc, Joel Banks, Addison Siemko, Starsky Partridge, and Douglas Gwylim)

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