Iron Harvest, by whatever penny

Iron Harvest

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1.	For Emma Lazarus 05:24	buy track
2.	Mechanism 04:59	buy track
3.	Passage 05:49	buy track
4.	Ozymandius 04:45	buy track
5.	Longing 05:49	buy track

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Iron Harvest is the intersection of man, nature, and climate change. In a distant landscape, the cyclical movement of the music echoes the remnants of industry: ancient mechanisms, still set in their automated sequences, unmanned, alone. Indefinitely, they continue their obsolete processes even in the absence of man. Nature encroaches slowly, reclaiming the land that was once hers.

Each piece is written to embody this natural setting and accompanies the sculptures seen within it: the music compliments the artwork, as does the artwork for the music, becoming two agents of cultivation for the image of the environment we see here. Reflective of the raw, deserted character, they take the pieces of an industrial age and pit them against the forces of nature, not in conflict, but simply in the aftermath of an era.

The term “iron harvest” references this convergence of metal and earth, coined as the name for the process by which farmers cleared munitions from their fields after the First World War. It is the haunting concept of having to collect the pieces of instruments that brought so much destruction. In the music we confront another world, one which is distant, but not as far as we may think––it is peaceful in its primitivism, not so much sinister as it is vaguely sorrowful. These soundscapes are the sounds of labor, emerging from organic timbres in mechanical patterns, the sounds of the earth in places it used to be. They are the sounds of a return to nature, its melodies settled someplace between tranquility and grief, the sounds of an eternity arising from turmoil. They are the sounds of a place we know in ways we do not know it.

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released May 21, 2021

- For Emma Lazarus, Passage, Ozymandius, and Longing written by Eric Sturr
- Mechanism written by Franklin Hansen and Emily Ta
- Violin performed by Sarah Franchino
- All tracks mixed by Tim Segado
- Photograph by Richard Sturr
- Artwork by Sean O'Kane
- Pretentious Blurb by Emily Ta

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new ep "totality"
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discography

totality

Apr 2024
Radiance

Nov 2023
Taiga

Nov 2022
Iron Harvest

May 2021
Winter

Dec 2020
Semaphore

Oct 2017
Two Years Too Late

Sep 2014

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