The debut album by The Holy Family has arrived to bewitch and delight. The scope of 'The Holy Family' is boundless. It's an intrepid voyage through sound-worlds, as This Heat-esque polyrhythms, spidery zeuhl, oceanic kosmische, blissful Robert Wyatt-via-Talk Talk-esque pastoral and even Lalo Schifrin-esque celluloid-score tension are visited in search of some greater universal truth. Yet all of these stylistic forays are married with relentless dream logic into one unifying kaleidoscopic vision. The aesthetic of The Holy Family evolved naturally via first improvisation and then a very meticulous crafting of the raw material. Recording sessions involved Smith and his cohorts - including longtime collaborators Kavus Torabi, Emmett Elvin, Sam Warren and Michael J. York - retreating to 'an old house in the country well stocked with the requisite fine wines and jazz cigarettes' to lay down tracks that were then sculpted into their eventual form by Smith and engineer/mixer Antti Uuismaki, for approval and final overdubs from the rest of the collective. Mercurial and mystical yet charged with primal energy, this is a classic double album as forum for chimerical experimentation - shifting in form and structure every time it travels from the record racks to the stereo, and revealing yet more psychic landscapes with each listen. 01. I Have Seen The Lion Walking 02. Skulls The ....03. Inward Turning Suns 04. Stones To Water 05. Desert Night 06. Wrapped In Dust 07. World You Are Coming To 08. Inner Edge Of Outer Mind 09. A New Euphoria 10. See,Hear,Smell,Taste 11. St. Anthony’s Fire 12. Chasm First Part 13. Chasm Second
Release date:
September 3, 2021
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