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Hail Star of the Sea!

by Seven Rivers of Fire

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Recorded on a cellphone from March - September 2021, Hail Star of the Sea! is equal parts composed and improvised. A sonic pilgrimage of plucked and bowed guitars, embroidered with bells, bowls, and rattling rosaries, drenched in droning organ and harmonium. These tones are accompanied by the shrieking of a scraped and attacked untuned violin, set to field recordings of crashing waves, radio transmissions, unlocking doors, footsteps, alarms, barking dogs, gathering storms, falling rain, struck matches and rising flames, creaking floorboards and chairs, monkeys chattering in the trees with insects and cicadas singing in the cold night air, and a grove full of birds greeting the rising sun. The journey is dense but rewarding.

Recorded on a cellphone from March - September 2021, Hail Star of the Sea! is equal parts composed and improvised. A sonic pilgrimage of plucked and bowed guitars, embroidered with bells, bowls, and rattling rosaries, drenched in droning organ and harmonium. These tones are accompanied by the shrieking of a scraped and attacked untuned violin, set to field recordings of crashing waves, radio transmissions, unlocking doors, footsteps, alarms, barking dogs, gathering storms, falling rain, struck matches and rising flames, creaking floorboards and chairs, monkeys chattering in the trees with insects and cicadas singing in the cold night air, and a grove full of birds greeting the rising sun. The journey is dense but rewarding.

credits

released January 12, 2023

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by William Graham Randles

Mastered by Anders Peterson @ GS Mastering and Post Stockholm, Sweden.
Layout and design: Cam Lofstrand

Instruments: acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, recorder, violin, harmonium, organ, singing bowl, Tibetan tingsha, khartal, bells, two-string cardboard box dulcimer, piano strings, and rosaries

Crossing the Abyss // The Magician's Journey is based, in part, on The Quest of the Magi by John Henry Hopkins Jr.

Artwork by Tara Cawthra & William Graham Randles

Special thanks to: Tara, Duncan, my family, Mike, Anders and everyone else who has supported me. I am incredibly grateful.

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