HARVESTMAN: Triptych Part Two The Pysch Project Of Neurosis’ Steve Von Till Releases Today
Harvestman - Triptych: Part Two is Out Now
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Triptych: Part Two is available on Transparent Ruby Red + Black Galaxy Effect vinyl as well as CD and all digital platforms. There is a limited edition 11” x 11” exclusive risograph art print of the original cover art by Henry Hablak.
If you missed it, watch the visualizers for “Damascus” HERE and "Galvanized and Torn Open" HERE
Released periodically on three of 2024’s full moons – April 23rd’s Pink Moon, July 21st’s Buck Moon, and October 17th’s Hunter Moon – the three-album cycle, Triptych, is HARVESTMAN’s most ambitious undertaking yet. But it’s also the distillation of a unique approach that finds a continuity amongst the fragmented, treating all its myriad musical sources and reference points not as building bricks, but as tuning forks for a collective ancestral resonance, residing in that liminal space between the fundamental and the imaginary, the intrinsic and the speculative.
Woven together from home studio recordings that span two decades, this latest outing as HARVESTMAN finds parallels with nature’s cycles not just in its release dates but in the repeated structure that binds each album, like an imprint refracted through three separate strata. As with April’s Part One and the forthcoming Part Three, Part Two starts on a collaboration with Om bassist and long-term friend of Steve’s, Al Cisneros, with a dub take opening the B-Side. Here, the opening track, “The Hag Of Beara Vs The Poet,” the languid, tribal groove expands into a chromatic wash, like an endless drip of oil spreading out under a midsummer haze.
A filtering of the alpha-state travelogues of its predecessor, Part Two reaches even deeper into primal yet pristine states. It journeys from the undulating drone and slow-thawing wonder of “The Falconer”, as if the Myst soundtrack were being broadcast from outer space, through the perpetual-motion of “Damascus,” dreamtime bazaar and the “Vapour Phase” seismograph frequencies measuring supernatural tremors to “The Unjust Incarceration” and its distorted bagpipes, sounding a noise-frayed lament.
If Triptych is a multi- and extra-sensory experience, it extends to the remarkable glyph-style artwork of Henry Hablak, a map of correspondences from a long-forgotten ancient and advanced civilization. As with Triptych itself, it’s an echo from another time, an act of binding, a guide to be endlessly reinterpreted, and a signpost to the sacred that might not indicate where to look, but how.
Triptych: Part 2 Track Listing:
1. The Hag Of Beara vs The Poet
2. The Falconer
3. Damascus
4. The Hag Of Beara vs The Poet (Forest Dub)
5. Vapour Phase
6. Galvanized And Torn Open
7. The Unjust Incarceration
Harvestman Triptych Part Two album credits:
Steve Von Till - guitars, bass, synths, percussion, loops, filters and mutations.
Dave French - drums on The Hag, stock tank percussion on Galvanized, frequency consult.
Al Cisneros - bass on The Hag and Dub
John Goff - bagpipes on The Unjust Incarceration
Sanford Parker - live assistance on Damascus
Narration on The Hag of Beara - "The Lake of Innisfree" by W.B. Yeats
Recorded and Mixed at The Crow’s Nest, North Idaho by SVT
Mastered by James Plotkin
Artwork and layout by Henry Hablak
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