Hello,
This is our new blog that we will use to share information about everything from our shows, recordings, practices, and writing experiences to things we simply feel important enough to share.
Since our last show Jacob, Spencer, and Zach traveled to Oregon and back over a three month period. Upon returning last summer, we picked up where we left off after Sins. We have also underwent serious changes in our experiences with music, and how it resonates with geometry, history, daily life, etc. The new line up includes three guitars and three vocals (Jacob, Spencer, JJ); Zach on Drums/Percussion; and long-time friend David Pogostin on bass. New experimentation is taking place in the areas of electronic elements, amp tones, pedal functions, and vocal styles.
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Our current project is the completion of our next full-length album entitled, "Light." We have been working on this material for two years and plan to record the 64-minute movement in April or May. As with the two previous releases ("Age" and "Sins") all songs flow together, creating one large piece of musical experience. We have constructed "Light" using a twelve-point trip around the Circle of Fifths. Having to experiment in every key is an interesting challenge, but has offered us the ability to cover a vast range of dynamic soundscapes and feelings, indeed more so than our two previous releases. Light encompasses our collective experiences with transformation on many different levels, inner and outer. We hope to clearly convey this evolution so that it may be understood and discussed. Our skills and intentionality have intensified with the writing of this album, and the track listing for Light is as follows:
1. Presence of Boundaries
2. Ahauob
3. Time Compressing
4. Sipapu
5. Integration of Paradox
6. Ego Collapsing
7. Atma Bodah
8. Resonance
9. Spirit Expanding
10. Dawn of Ages
11. Quetzalcoatl
12. Noosphere Rising
The track names and concepts for Light were created in 2007, but are now completing fruition into form here in 2009. It is our goal to record this album sometime between late April - May.
We will play 5 new songs from Light live on April 1st at Lenny's.
This is will be our first show in nearly a year. Please, come and hear what we've been up to.
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Until the next post,
IRR
