Kristin Hayter of Lingua Ignota fame guests on the newly released track, “Lovely Murk” from Oxbow. The latter band’s new album “Love’s Holiday” is presently on course for a release this Friday, July 21st through Ipecac Recordings.
Guitarist/pianist Niko Wenner commented:
“I started ‘Lovely Murk’ in late 2011 imagining the perspective of my mother then dying from Alzheimer’s, and what it would feel like to lose everything, even one’s self. So personal, I kept the song for myself; she died in early 2012. But soon Lisa Meyer at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, England asked us to play, encouraging me to orchestrate a version for an OXBOW Orchestra performance.
And eventually I was ready to record the song for our new OXBOW album Love’s Holiday, with new lyrics. I asked Kristin Hayter to create a Lingua Ignota choir using my melody from 2011, she also added voice over the bridge, altogether creating a stunning and essential addition. A long journey for what for me is a beautiful, powerful song, made with love.”
Oxbow vocalist Eugene S. Robinson added:
“My favorite part of filming the entire video was during a break in the recording when the homeowner of the historically significant house in Pennsylvania where we recorded it, walked into a room where I was sitting and screamed on account of him believing I was an actual ghost. In his mind I guess 17th century ghosts have iPhones.
When Kristin‘s voice comes swelling up in the song’s center, right about the time my dying and almost dead carcass ascends to the sky gods, I actually had a moment where it felt like that’s precisely and ‘for real’ what was happening. Her voice, my voice, the voices all contributed to…yes: that feeling of… release.”
09/01 Glasgow, UK – Broadcast
09/02 Birmingham, UK – Supersonic Festival
09/03 Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
09/04 Bristol, UK – Exchange
09/05 London, UK – Studio 9294
09/06 Kortrijk, BEL – Wilde Westen
09/07 Brussels, BEL – Botanique
09/08 Nijmegen, NET – Merleyn
09/09 Tetange, LUX – Human’s World Festival (free entry)
09/10 Bochum, GER – Die Trompete
09/11 Vienna, AUT – Volkstheatre Rote Bar
09/12 Wroclaw, POL – Liverpool
09/13 Warsaw, POL – Hydrozagadka
09/14 Berlin, GER – Roadrunners Paradise
09/15 Hamburg, GER – Hafenklang
09/16 Aalborg, DEN – Lasher Fest
10/20 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
10/21 Portland, ME – SPACE
10/22 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
11/09 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
11/10 Los Angeles, CA – Regent Theatre
11/11 Mesa, AZ – Pub Rock
