Wrekmeister Harmonies is a project of Chicago sound and video artist J.R. Robinson, with collaborations from other musicians. MEGA links found on other sites cannot be reposted directly here, please download the file(s) then reupload to your own Mega account then. Discover, buy and download high quality mp3 music of Light Falls 2016 by Wrekmeister Harmonies at Mp3Caprice. Wrekmeister Harmonies Light Falls LP sealed vinyl Godspeed You! BLACK EMPEROR top albums (CD, LP, MC, SACD, DVD-A, Digital Media Download). Wrekmeister Harmonies - Light Falls (2016) Country: USA Genre: Post-Metal / Drone / Experimental Quality: Mp3, CBR 320 kbps (Flac-Rip)| FLAC (tracks) Tracklist: 01. Light Falls I - The Mantra 02. Light Falls II - The Light Burns Us All 03. Light Falls III - Light Sick 04. The Gathering 05. Where Have You Been My Lovely Son?
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Light Falls is the fourth Thrill Jockey full-length by J.R. Robinson's ever-evolving Wrekmeister Harmonies in as many years. His m.o. has been synonymous with the epic in conception, scale, and depth. To realize these excessive yet spacious visions, Robinson has utilized a variety of musicians. Released in 2015, the brilliant, maximal Night of Your Ascension featured some 30 guests, including Marissa Nadler, Mary Lattimore, the Body, and members of Indian and Leviathan. Light Falls is different in scope but not ambition. It was directly inspired by writer, Auschwitz survivor, and activist Primo Levi's book If This Is a Man. The band consists of just two members, Robinson on guitars and vocals and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Esther Shaw. The rest of the core group for this date is drawn from the ranks of Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Thierry Amar on basses, drummer Timothy Herzog, and Sophie Trudeau on strings, B-3, and vocals. Ryley Walker and Cave's Cooper Crain guest on the gentle opener, 'Light Falls I - The Mantra.' Its shimmering guitars and minimal bassline are accompanied by a droning organ. Within a minute or so, Robinson begins repetitively reciting the incantation 'Stay in, go out, get sick, get well/Light falls.' It feels like a warning. Piano, violin, and sonic effects usher in the seeping darkness. In 'Light Falls II - The Light Burns Us All,' processional electric guitars and bass, funereal drums, and hovering strings and keyboards suck the air from the room as a doomy metallic thud claims the center. The trademark Godspeed buildup of dynamism (not foreign to WH's music anyway) ensues amid the swirl and wail. 'Light Falls III - Light Sick' peels back as starkly contrasting piano and electric guitars dialogue with an elegiac beauty. Trudeau's violin enters 'singing' with grief and loss. As more instruments enter the fray, its sinister underpinning is revealed: throbbing distorted bass, crashing kick drums, hi-hat, and snare, woven keyboard noise, detuned power chords, and sweeping electric violin all collide in a maelstrom. In 'The Gathering,' the pit of darkness and horror opens wide. Tentative electric guitar, piano, and violin harmonics are answered by Herzog's sudden tom-tom and kick-drum punch that swallows and transforms them into a tense, squalling lyricism. The tune's power increases with every pass until all light, everywhere, is extinguished. Robinson adds the personal into this mix, too. The set's final three cuts, beginning and concluding with 'Where Have You Been My Lovely Son?,' are a supplementary and musically complementary suite; it envelops themes from the 'Light Falls...' material and weaves them through folk and Gypsy melodies and blackened death and doom metal, while ambient and industrial noise extends its musical reflection on separation and loss. Chaos and order, power and vulnerability, existential questions of why and the passionate commitment to bear witness are balanced with care and intensity. Light Falls retains the epic nature of Wrekmeister Harmonies' earlier offerings, but the scope is much more intimate, direct, and accessible. As a result, it may resonate with some as even more powerful. ~ Thom Jurek
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- 1Light Falls I - The MantraWrekmeister Harmonies7:29
- 2Light Falls II - The Light Burns Us AllWrekmeister Harmonies7:15
- 3Light Falls III - Light SickWrekmeister Harmonies6:21
- 4The GatheringWrekmeister Harmonies6:56
- 5Where Have You Been My Lovely Son?Wrekmeister Harmonies6:33
- 6Some Were Saved Some DrownedWrekmeister Harmonies6:19
- 7My Lovely Son RepriseWrekmeister Harmonies1:32
Wrekmeister Harmonies
Light Falls
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Wrekmeister Harmonies = Earth + ISIS + Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Wrekmeister Harmonies = Earth + ISIS + Godspeed You! Black Emperor
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Diving into the world of Wrekmeister Harmonies is a journey. As an artistic collective, the work of J.R. Robinson has been a collaboration with such an impressive roster of other acts that it’s a challenge to know exactly how to approach Wrekmeister Harmonies’ latest. Each release is so clearly crafted and meticulously thought out in terms of collaborators that simply to say, “It’s a Wrekmeister Harmonies release,” does it a disservice.
Despite being an artistic vision spearheaded by Robinson, each of Wrekmeister’s releases has the fingerprints of its collaborators—including members of Leviathan, Indian, The Body and dozens of others. In the case of Light Falls, it’s members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor who leave their unique imprint on this album and lend a decidedly Godspeed feel to Light Falls.
In gaining some insight into the formation of Light Falls, I found that inspiration for the album was drawn from anti-fascist activist and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s book If This Is A Man, and I’m glad that I knew this going into it. One of the main themes of the album, pulled from Levi’s book, is the gradual encroachment of change, most notably those things we would find abhorrent but that we barely notice because of the incremental way by which they’ve come about. Robinson gives the example of day turning to night: The transition is gradual, but we eventually find ourselves encased in darkness.
Given the current state of the world, this observation is apt. How in the hell did we get here? The rot has certainly come to the surface, and we happily consume it. On the personal level, if you’ve ever had a day where you’ve stared at the soul-crushing bleakness of four cubicle walls, you understand this sentiment all too well. Light Falls is the soundtrack to this realization of selling out from your truer self—the encroachment into your life of that which you once loathed. At least, to this writer, it was a timely catharsis.
Wrekmeister’s palette on Light Falls is a deft mix of drone, post-rock and doom but belies the box these descriptors imply. It isn’t as cinematic nor as orchestral as prior works—which fall more in line with post-rock—but its pacing and flow are so calculated that this approach is a resounding success. The mix of Wrekmeister Harmonies’ core duo and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor is unimpeachable.
“Where Have You Been My Lovely Son?” is an epic, soul-baring confession, concerned with Robinson’s dissolving relationship with his son, the pain in his repeated words crystallized over the course of seven minutes. They eventually give way to the most outright muscular and rocking track on the album, “Some Were Saved Some Drowned,” which is as visceral and hopeless as the name implies. The buildup of the prior seven minutes makes its straightforward doom an impeccable juxtaposition, roaring in to convincingly remind us, “There is no God.”
Many prior Wrekmeister Harmonies’ albums lasted for one track, sometimes two. However, on Light Falls, tracks are broken out into their separate movements. It’s the interplay among these tracks that gives Light Falls its emotional arc, and I appreciate the separation.
Although Light Falls is dark and tortured, it isn’t hopeless. It serves as an awakening and genesis of contemplation. To me at least, art that illustrates what you’ve been feeling, but couldn’t express, is not only a rare occurrence, but also a necessary component of our deep connection with that art. Light Falls may not be a spin-it-for-fun album, but it is certainly one to envelop you and provide space for much needed reflection. –Peter Fryer