The New Heaven And The New Earth - All Saints' Day
EO 09 - 12"
August 31st, 2010
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This is the 12" version of The New Heaven And The New Earth's debut EP, All Saints' Day. Like the tape version, the cover features cut out stained glass windows made with foil and marker. This version includes a lyric booklet designed and illustrated by Darian Scatton and each record is hand colored.
Original Bio Of All Saints' Day
All Saints' Day is the reason Catholic School children can sleep off
their candy comas on November 1; the yin to Halloween's yang. It is also The New Heaven and The New Earth's recorded debut. It is the love child of the poison of guilt and the promise of redemption. Masculine yet feminine; insular yet accessible; stalwart yet fragile. It is the product of paradox, that same internal struggle that plagued those holy men to whom The New Heaven and The New Earth pay tribute in deed if not in word.
Roger Alejandro Martinez is that rare songwriter, the avant classicist. The fruits of his craft are both foreign yet oddly familiar. The fingerpicked guitars and autoharp recall a distant America, now just a memory; yet the country All Saints Day calls home is not Appalachia. It is farther away, foggier, a nation born of myth and superstition. Understated strings weave in and out of harmoniums, like a whip-poor-will lost among the pines. Pianos ring out from beneath the haze. Harmonies haunt these songs like the ghosts of so many ashen witches.
RIYL sacred hearts, chloroform, arpeggios.
01. Noah
02. Dry Stalk
03. Simon
04. St. Valentine
05. Santa Muerte
06. St. Francis/Benediction