Portland’s meditative doom band BREATH will release their new album, Brahman, on October 24th via Argonauta Records. In anticipation, the band shares their second single, "Sanliurfa," out today and streaming here: https://album.link/breath_sanliurfa
"An exploration into the feeling of metaphysical communion among peers. Doorways between vast celestial ocean above and worlds within. A page less tome in vault of mind. Carved faces in stone relief, tethered to a time. Behind their eyes lie long memory, patient in waiting to arise. Frozen sleep undone by sheer will on tireless wings.
This song was given great care by collaborators Rob Wrong (guitar), & Lauren Hatch (Keys) in concert with Breath’s Bass and Drums. Building on the atmosphere of a cold pre dawn setting, the serpentine sonic route a meditative mind treads." - says the band
Alongside the new single, the band present the full tracklist and artwork of their upcoming record.
1. Monastery of the Seven Sages
2. Awen
3. Sanliurfa
4. Sages
5. Cedars of Lebanon
6. Hy-Brasil
BREATH had this to say about the album:
"BRAHMAN is an ode to the unchanging all pervasive true reality. It exists in and is the connective thread shared by all living things. The Trimurti in chorus, you and I, all one awareness. Music in service to the mirror of nature, to what can arise through stillness.
These songs were originally written as a three-piece opened to an expanded potential from our two-piece beginning. First enlisting fellow Portlander and peer musician Lauren Hatch on Keys. After recording, Rob Wrong (Witch Mountain, The Skull) was struck with inspiration to write and record guitar for the entire album. This unforeseen development and synchronicity continued, folding in new aspects like the appearance of TJ Minnich (Spitalfield) on Djembe in tracks 2 & 5.
Fed by a magnetic fascination to the mystery schools and Shamanic rites of ancient peoples. Emerging reborn, a mediator of this world and the other. Singing to trees, speaking with animals, imbued with the secret lore. At a cost they overcame with the treasure they sought. It's losing ourselves in the woods or meditation and transmuting those experiences into the vibrational feeling and space our musical fingerprint holds."
The beginnings of Breath can be traced back to childhood friends Steven O’Kelly and Ian Caton, who began playing music together during High School in the suburbs of Portland OR. The culmination of a search for their own voice, being an inseparable rhythm section for hire through many projects. The fruit of O’Kelly’s magnetism to solo songwriting and spiritual seeking coalesced into their debut Primeval Transmissions released in 2021 by Desert Records. Their album was recorded by Rob Wrong at his home studio Wrong Way Recording in March of 2020, and mastered by the great Tad Doyle. Wrong of Witch Mountain played guitar on a couple tracks on their debut, including the ceremonial Halls of Amenti as part of Primeval Transmission’s remixed & remastered 2023 release by Desert Records. Taking their inspiration from other heavy hitters such as Earth, OM and Grails, as well as classic mentors Black Sabbath & Ravi Shankar, Breath’s musical tapestry runs deep. Both Caton and O’Kelly learned eastern styles of music playing in Portland’s Gamelan Wahyu Dari Langit from 2016 to 2020. Traditional Indonesian song structure that helped expand their writing beyond the guard rails of western convention. Growling high decibel distortion to restrained incense laden marches influenced by Geddy Lee, Al Cisneros, and earth-shaking rhythms of John Bonham. Portland Oregon’s Breath continue to paint outside their canvas with new additions Lauren Hatch on Keys in 2023 & Justin Acevedo joining on Guitar in 2024.https://www.facebook.com/Breathpdx https://inbreath.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ArgonautaRecords |
