Unlike previous reports, special guest Thor Harris will no longer come along.
Take the Canadian postrock-act Gospeed You! Black Emperor who joins the collective occasionally, or Roadburn festival, who booked Wrekmeister Harmonies this year with the praise: ‘’Wrekmeister Harmonies are atypical, in every sense of the word, and in many ways they are one of those bands who fully embody the spirit of creativity, adventure, culture, innovation, collaboration, boundary-crossing and artistic restlessness that we associate with Roadburn itself.’’ Amen.
On April 13th the new album of Wrekmeister Harmonies called ‘The Alone Rush’ was released! It is less metal than we are used to from this collective, the sounds tends to Nick Cave on his gloomiest, but it is incredibly beautiful. ‘’It is an undeniably gorgeous work that can honestly appreciated even when it becomes uncomfortable’’, Exclaim! wrote in their review.
Formation of ‘The Alone Rush’
After the mourning of a loved one and taking care of a chronically ill family member, J.R. Robinson and Esther Shaw decided to move from hectic Chicago to quiet Astoriate. With almost nothing else than their instruments to fall back on, they healed their wounds with the most important medicine: music. Wrekmeister’s work is often based on literature, and the newest album ‘The Alone Rush’ (2018) doesn’t differ from that. A lot of the lyrics are a personal answer on questions he has at death. “There’s a realization, a moment of perfect clarity that comes from meditating on these ideas,”zegt Robinson, “and that is, at the end of it all, we are perfectly and utterly alone.”
Support:
‘’Graeae sounds like the shadow that descends the creaking staircase, that gets longer in the candlelight, the light of the candle that slowly burns up.’’
Expect a lot of this support. This four-men big band plays multiple instruments which they exchange. Guitars, bass, loops, accordions, violins, cellos and trombones are alternated with singing and even pan covers! Graeae makes fragile and slow songs with dark undertones that will touch your soul.
