Hail Star of the Sea!, by Seven Rivers of Fire

Hail Star of the Sea!

by Seven Rivers of Fire

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not-that-wes-anderson I think there is a wonderful sense of flow and balance throughout the album. Learning a bit about how the album was recorded, layered and arranged has made me appreciate it all the more. The tracks rise and fall just as the ocean in the interludes, a fantastic journey overall. Love it! Favorite track: Crossing the Abyss // The Magician's Journey.

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1.	Look to the Star! 09:38	buy track
2.	I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning 07:38	buy track
3.	Darkness Descends on the Temple 04:19	buy track
4.	Crossing the Abyss // The Magician's Journey 20:10	buy track
5.	The Ritual // Shadows in the Fog 09:09	buy track
6.	Ghost Dance // Sign of the Goddess 07:12	buy track
7.	Ha-Sulam // Drawing Down the Moon 07:29	buy track
8.	First Light in the Sacred Grove 10:21	buy track

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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."

Released on vinyl by Ramble Records and Echodelick Records

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released October 8, 2021

Written, performed, recorded and mixed by William Graham Randles

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, and everyone else who has supported me. I am incredibly grateful.

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