Lyra Pramuk is again with a brand new album. Hymnal, the follow-up to her 2020 debut, Fountain, arrives June 13 by way of 7K! and pop.soil. Take heed to a single, “Rewild,” under.
Final month, Pramuk shared “Vega” with the launch of pop.soil, her personal label and humanities hub. That monitor doesn’t seem on the album, which pulls conceptual inspiration from poems contributed by the artist Nadia Marcus. Pramuk reformulated these poems and certain them to reworked music created with the Sonar Quartett string ensemble in a collaborative session.
In an announcement, Pramuk spoke of the “frequent good” of music at a time when “the West dominates the Earth with protocols of extraction, surveillance, and exploitation.” She went on, “I don’t adhere to this philosophy. This work represents an try and articulate my very own perception system. Every part about our society is designed to distract us from our true energy, innate magnificence, and reference to all (actual) life. It’s as much as us to unlearn this.… We should domesticate interplanetary consciousness and inform the universe tales about who we’re. Being trans has led me to query the whole lot about society to maintain the great bits, and picture a greater, extra holistic actuality.”
Revisit Eric Torres’ Rising profile “Lyra Pramuk’s Surreal Songs of the Self.”
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Hymnal:
01 Rewild
02 Unchosen
03 Render
04 Incense
05 Oracle
06 Babel
07 Meridian
08 Gravity
09 Swallow
10 Umbra
11 Crimson
12 Actuality
13 Solace
14 Ending
