INSECT ARK’S RAW BLOOD SINGING (JUNE 7) STREAMING NOW VIA
DEBEMUR MORTI PRODUCTIONS’ YOUTUBE CHANNEL LISTEN HERE
DUO FEATURING DANA SCHECHTER FROM SWANS AND
TIM WYSKIDA FROM KHANATE
PHYSICAL PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW
https://bfan.link/raw-blood-singing
May 29, 2024, BERLIN – Ten days before the official release of their new album, Raw Blood Singing (June 7), Berlin-based duo Insect Ark are streaming the forthcoming album in its entirety via Debemur Morti Productions’ YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/EkQ3m3cnJIQ).
Over the course of 45 dynamic minutes, Dana Schechter (Swans) and Tim Wyskida (Khanate) deliver eight doomy, psychedelic and poignant songs filled with unexpected twists and turns. Raw Blood Singing is a deeply immersive and darkly atmospheric experience.
Schechter shares insights into the creation of Raw Blood Singing:
“Writing this album was a new experience – in context for the history of the band, it started out similar to the others: I made elaborate demos by myself, writing and recording bass, lap steel guitar, synthesizers, and electronic drums; I wrote all of the arrangements, chord progressions, and melodies. What made this album different was when Tim joined the band. It felt like a new creative chapter was opening as it became obvious that the music would benefit from his ideas, so we decided to see how far we could push the songs. We ended up chopping, rebuilding and re-arranging a lot of the material. This process was a huge inspiration for both of us and fostered our bond as a creative writing pair. The album concept is based more on our life views than lyrical content; primarily with the idea of impermanence and as humans existing as energy shifting, of retaining a deliberate presence. The actual studio recordings were preceded by my demos, followed by the heavy re-working Tim and I did to refine the material, which included a lot of experimentation. We didn’t rush any part of it, and we worked long days every day in our studio, for about a year.”
Album pre-orders are available now (https://bfan.link/raw-blood-singing), with the collection available on multiple limited-edition vinyl variants, as well as CD and digitally.
The pair have confirmed a trio of European performances:
June 7 Berlin, Germany Neue Zukunft
July 12-14 Pleszew, Poland Red Smoke Festival
November 10 Porto, Portugal Amplifest
1. Birth of a Black Diamond
2. The Frozen Lake
3. Youth Body Swayed
4. Cleaven Hearted
5. The Hands
6. Psychological Jackal
7. Inverted Whirlpool
8. Ascension
Insect Ark is Dana Schechter (bass/lap steel/synth/vocals) and Tim Wyskida (drums/percussion). Previously a solo endeavor led by Schechter, the band has released three albums: Future Fossils (2021), The Vanishing (2020) and Marrow Hymns (2018). Raw Blood Singing, Insect Ark’s fourth full-length, is the result of a year spent writing. Sharing an obsession with innovation and distillation, the duo merged to create a sonic landscape which vacillates between sensory overload and isolation in a seething void. Many of the songs on Raw Blood Singing were penned alone by Schechter; they were gutted, reworked and rebirthed when Wyskida joined.
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