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Peyote Road Burn

by Hymns57

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1.
Hope Drones 10:54
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2.
Ephemera 07:15
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3.
Peyote Road Burn 11:44
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4.
Almost Blue Sunshine 18:02
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5.
Mountain Grove 10:32
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Culled from a vast array of artifacts created and collected during a studio retreat at Port William Sound (studio home for Evening Hymn's Jonas Bonnetta), Peyote Road Burn finds the signature Hymns57 sound spread over 5 long-form experimental pieces originating from Synth, Guitar, Tape Loop and an array of carefully dialed effected pedals. What remains when the dirt and dust settles is a sonic journey unlike any other. The walls of sound ebb, flow and fight for dominance as notes sweet and sombre spark from their clash.

Hope Drones begins the set with wavering, distant washes of synth swells, expanding and exploding with an organic movement one might mistake for some treated wild animal's call. The effect is both familiar and otherworldly, cavernous and yet somehow cosmic. The piece gives way to deep swelling drones that take us into the second movement.

With Ephemera, haunting subdued swells give way to a wavering blown out guitar line, bubbling up from some unseen depth. Slowly this ache gives way to a subtle sample of sweetness from a Tim Rutili song. A wholeness of things remembered and things forgot.

The next movement, and title track, is a beast that takes us deep into the desert. The slow snarl of building and barely contained feedback cast unease and a sense of oncoming dread. There's the haze of wavering images in the heat. It's fata morgana. It's the first plateau on this journey out, this journey in. Slowly a looping guitar line appears in the centre of the frame, calls you, and beckons you further in.

Almost Blue Sunshine finds uncertain peace with a hypnotic slow muted guitar slowly building, and doubling, recovering it's strength. As the melodies intertwine we lose a single vision and see only movement. As the piece wanes a slow wall of sound overtakes the horizon.

Mountain Grove is the final piece, and with it some semblance of stability. There is a longing and a reflective pose of understanding. We have arrived and now know what we didn't know before. It's charged with a melancholy, a longing and an acquiescence. In this place melodies return, visions of the past, swirl about, reclaim and rename us. We have found and been found.

Peyote Road Burn is equal parts hum and drone, blood vision, sonic road trip, a long wander into the heart of the desert, and somehow, ultimately a road home. What we have lost on the way was never ours. It is the valley of vision. And it calls you on.

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released July 12, 2019

All music written, composed and produced by Hymns57
Recorded at Port William Sound, Mountain Grove, Ontario

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Hymns57 Guelph, Ontario

Hymns57 is a sound venture project, while working primarily with guitar, piano & synths. Adopting field recording, found sounds and samples to orchestrate a multivariate sonic landscape. Layers of carefully woven loops, offer a temporary memory palace of unique textures that evoke a lingering nostalgia. A formula designed to immerse you into a dynamic audio experience. ... more

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