J.R. Robinson is getting set to return with his Wrekmeister Harmonies project, and will release Night of Your Ascension on November 13th via Thrill Jockey. Over a year in the making, Robinson has assembled a stellar cast from the ranks of experimental music, and the album’s line-up includes Lee Buford and Chip King from The Body, Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten), Cooper Crain (Cave), Marissa Nadler, Mary Lattimore, Olivia Block, Eric Chaleff (Bloodiest), Dylan O’Toole and Ron DeFries of Indian, Bruce Lamont, Sanford Parker (Twilight), Mark Solotroff (Anatomy of Habit), Solomon Lee Walker, Chris Brokaw (Come), and Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors). Quite the extraordinary line-up, really, but just the crew you’d want behind you to walk down the dark alley of Robinson’s creative impulses. Inspired by Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, an Italian prince known for his uniquely expressive and experimental madrigals, but also for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, as well as Father John J. Geoghan, a Boston-area priest convicted for multiple acts of sexual abuse and later murdered in prison, this is an intensely dark work–to say the least! Today we listen to “Run Priest Run“, a track that moves from a spectral and abject terror to brutal release across it’s twelve minutes, as it’s lurid psychodrama is enacted by a group of musicians skilled in exploring the depths of the Id, and fearless in it’s darkest reaches.
Wrekmeister Harmonies heads out for a short US tour this coming December. Here are the upcoming dates…
Dec. 2 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
Dec. 3 – Vancouver, B.C. – The Cobalt
Dec. 4 – Olympia, WA – Obsidian
Dec. 6 – Portland, OR – Panic Room
Dec. 7 – Oakland, CA – Oakland Metro Operahouse
Dec. 8 – Sacramento, CA – Starlite Lounge
Dec. 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Complex
Dec. 10 – Long Beach, CA – Alex’s Bar
Dec. 11 – Tucson, AZ – The Flycatcher
Dec. 13 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk Austin
Dec. 14 – Dallas, TX – Transmission Events
Dec. 15 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar
Dec. 16 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue & 7th St Entry
Dec. 17 – Chicago, IL – The Empty Bottle
Dec. 18 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
Dec. 20 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre
Dec. 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Diabolical Records
