Mercury Rev - Born Horses

Mercury Rev - Born Horses

In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains
and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges,
eddying and fowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of
the grander Hudson river, carrying the fotsam and jetsam of our hopes,
dreams, fears
A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings,
woodwind, drums - and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of
consciousness that similarly eddy and fow.
Spiritually, literally, psycho- geographically: where else does Mercury Rev's ninth
album Born Horses spring from? This cascade of gleaming, glistening psych-jazzfolk-baroque-ambient quest that searches its soul but can never truly know the
answer? A sound and vision linked to their exalted past whilst quite unlike
anything they have created before? The answer is somewhere between the
homes of founder members Jonathan Donahue (the hamlet of Mt Tremper) and
Grasshopper (the town of Kingston), in their veins and brains of their nowlegendary tapping of musical cosmology, and the vital presence of new
permanent member Marion Genser (keys), plus long- term ally Jesse Chandler
(keys) and guests Jeff Lipstein (drums), Martin Keith (double bass) and Jim
Burgess (trumpet).
A place that feeds off the levitating mood of their last album, 2019's expansive
tribute Bobbie Gentry's The Delta Sweete Revisited, and the instrumental psych
explorations under the names of Harmony Rockets and Mercury Rev's Clear Light
Ensemble, and the spiritual guidance of avant-garde artist Tony Conrad and Beat
poet Robert Creeley, to whom Born Horses is dedicated. The record began with
skeletal chords and a surge of self-refection, from where we are vulnerable alive
to the notions and motions of time and reality.

Tracks: Mood Swings / Ancient Love / Your Hammer, My Heart / Patterns / A
Bird Of No Address / Born Horses / Everything I Thought / There's Always Been A
Bird In Me

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